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SMS Gefion was an unprotected cruiser that had a thin protective deck; she served with the Imperial German Navy between 1895 and 1919.
An unprotected cruiser was a type of naval warship that was in use during the early 1870s Victorian or pre-dreadnought era (about 1880 to 1905). The name was meant to distinguish these ships from “protected cruisers”, which had become accepted in the 1880s. A protected cruiser did not have side armor on its hull like a battleship or “armored cruiser” but had only a curved armored deck built inside the ship — like an internal turtle shell — which prevented enemy fire penetrating through the ship down into the most critical areas such as machinery, boilers, and ammunition storage. An unprotected cruiser lacked even this level of internal protection. The definitions had some gray areas, because individual ships could be built with a protective deck that did not cover more than a small area of the ship, or was so thin as to be of little value. The same was true of the side armor on some armored cruisers. An unprotected cruiser was generally cheaper and less effective than a protected cruiser, while a protected cruiser was generally cheaper and less effective than an armored cruiser, with some exceptions in each case.[1]
^ Note: The British classified cruisers and 1st class, 2nd class, and 3rd class, then sloops and gunboats. These rankings were based on size and firepower but not armor layout—in 1900 the British Royal Navy had protected cruisers ranging from the 1,800-ton Blonde to the 14,000-ton Powerful, larger than any armored cruisers or even most battleships. Also, the term "unarmored" could be used in contemporary references to mean both protected and unprotected cruisers.
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