List of cruisers of World War II
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The heavy cruiser was designed for long range, high speed, and heavy calibre naval guns. The first heavy cruisers were built in 1915, although it only became a widespread classification following the London Naval Treaty in 1930. The heavy cruiser's immediate precursors were the light cruiser designs of the 1910s and 1920s; the US 8-inch 'treaty cruisers' of the 1920s were originally classed as light cruisers until the London Treaty forced their redesignation. Heavy cruisers continued in use until after World War II.
The German Deutschland class was a series of three Panzerschiffe ("armored ships"), a form of heavily armed cruiser, built by the German Reichsmarine in nominal accordance with restrictions imposed by the Treaty of Versailles. The class is named after the first ship of this class to be completed (Deutschland). All three ships were launched between 1931 and 1934, and served with Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II. During the war, they were reclassified as heavy cruisers.
The British press began referring to the vessels as pocket battleships, in reference to the heavy firepower contained in the relatively small vessels; they were considerably smaller than contemporary battleships, though at 28 knots, were slower than battlecruisers. And although their displacement and scale of armor protection was that of a heavy cruiser, they were armed with guns larger than the heavy cruisers of other nations. Deutschland-class ships continue to be called pocket battleships in some circles. The development of the anti-aircraft cruiser began in 1935 when the Royal Navy re-armed HMS Coventry and HMS Curlew. Torpedo tubes and 6-inch (152 mm) low-angle guns were removed from these World War I light cruisers and replaced by ten 4-inch (102 mm) high-angle guns with appropriate fire-control equipment to provide larger warships with protection against high-altitude bombers.[1]
A tactical shortcoming was recognized after completing six additional conversions of C-class cruisers. Having sacrificed anti-ship weapons for anti-aircraft armament, the converted anti-aircraft cruisers might need protection themselves against surface units. New construction was undertaken to create cruisers of similar speed and displacement with dual-purpose guns. Dual-purpose guns offered good anti-aircraft protection with anti-surface capability for the traditional light cruiser role of defending capital ships from destroyers. The first purpose built anti-aircraft cruiser was the British Dido class, completed shortly before the beginning of World War II. The US Navy Atlanta-class anti-aircraft cruisers (CLAA) were designed to match capabilities of the Royal Navy. Both Dido and Atlanta carried torpedo tubes.
The quick-firing dual-purpose gun anti-aircraft cruiser concept was embraced in several designs completed too late to see combat including USS Worcester and USS Roanoke completed in 1948 and 1949, two De Zeven Provinciën-class cruisers completed in 1953, De Grasse and Colbert completed in 1955 and 1959, and HMS Tiger, HMS Lion and HMS Blake completed between 1959 and 1961.[2]
The List of ships of World War II contains major military vessels of the war, arranged alphabetically and by type. The list includes armed vessels that served during the war and in the immediate aftermath, inclusive of localized ongoing combat operations, garrison surrenders, post-surrender occupation, colony re-occupation, troop and prisoner repatriation, to the end of 1945. For smaller vessels, see also List of World War II ships of less than 1000 tons. Some uncompleted Axis ships are included, out of historic interest. Ships are designated to the country under which they operated for the longest period of the World War II, regardless of where they were built or previous service history.
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Ship | Country | Class | Type | Displacement (tons) | First commissioned | Fate |
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Abukuma | Imperial Japanese Navy | Nagara | light cruiser | 5,088 | 26 May 1925 | Sunk 26 October 1944[3] |
Achilles | Royal Navy Royal New Zealand Navy |
Leander | light cruiser | 7,270 | 6 October 1933 | sold to India 1948 |
Adelaide | Royal Australian Navy | Birmingham | light cruiser | 5,550 | 5 August 1922 | Scrapped 1949 |
Admiral Graf Spee | Kriegsmarine | Deutschland | cruiser | 12,103 | 6 January 1936 | scuttled 17 December 1939 |
Admiral Hipper | Kriegsmarine | Admiral Hipper | heavy cruiser | 14,000 | 25 April 1939 | Scuttled 2 May 1945 |
Admiral Scheer | Kriegsmarine | Deutschland | cruiser | 12,100 | 12 November 1934 | Sunk 9 April 1945 |
Agano | Imperial Japanese Navy | Agano | light cruiser | 6,650 | 31 October 1942 | Sunk 15 February 1944 |
Ajax | Royal Navy | Leander | light cruiser | 7,220 | 3 June 1935 | Scrapped 1949 |
Alberico da Barbiano | Regia Marina | Condottieri (Alberto da Giussano) | light cruiser | 5,200 | 9 June 1931 | Sunk 13 December 1941 |
Alberto di Giussano | Regia Marina | Condottieri (Alberto da Giussano) | light cruiser | 5,200 | 1 January 1931 | Sunk 13 December 1941 |
Algérie | French Navy | heavy cruiser | 10,000 | 15 September 1934 | scuttled 27 November 1942 | |
Almirante Brown | Argentine Navy | Veinticinco de Mayo | heavy cruiser | 6,800 | 18 July 1931 | scrapped 1962 |
Amsterdam | United States Navy | Cleveland | light cruiser | 11,800 | 8 January 1945 | Scrapped 1971 |
Aoba | Imperial Japanese Navy | Aoba | heavy cruiser | 5,088 | 20 September 1927 | Sunk 28 July 1945 |
Arethusa | Royal Navy | Arethusa | light cruiser | 5,220 | 23 May 1935 | scrapped 1950 |
Argonaut | Royal Navy | Dido | light cruiser | 5,600 | 8 August 1942 | scrapped 1955 |
Armando Diaz | Regia Marina | Condottieri (Cadorna) | light cruiser | 5,316 | 29 April 1933 | Sunk 25 February 1941 |
Ashigara | Imperial Japanese Navy | Myōkō | heavy cruiser | 13,300 | 20 August 1929 | Sunk 8 June 1945 |
Astoria (CA-34) | United States Navy | New Orleans | heavy cruiser | 9,950 | 28 April 1934 | Sunk 9 August 1942 Battle of Savo Island |
Astoria (CL-90) | United States Navy | Cleveland | light cruiser | 11,800 | 17 May 1944 | Scrapped 1971 |
Atago | Imperial Japanese Navy | Takao | heavy cruiser | 14,616 | 30 March 1932 | Sunk 23 October 1944 |
Atlanta (CL-51) | United States Navy | Atlanta | light cruiser | 6,000 | 24 December 1941 | Sunk 13 November 1942 Guadalcanal |
Atlanta (CL-104) | United States Navy | Cleveland | light cruiser | 11,800 | 3 December 1944 | Sunk as target 1970 |
Attilio Regolo | Regia Marina | Capitani Romani | light cruiser | 3,750 | August 1942 | ceded to France 1948 |
Augusta | United States Navy | Northampton | heavy cruiser | 9,200 | 30 January 1931 | Scrapped 1960 |
Aurora | Royal Navy | Arethusa | light cruiser | 5,220 | 12 November 1937 | to China 19 May 1948 |
Aurora | Soviet Navy | Protected cruiser | 6,731 | 29 July 1903 | In 1957 became a museum ship. | |
Australia | Royal Australian Navy | County (Kent) | heavy cruiser | 9,850 | 24 April 1928 | Scrapped 1955 |
Bahia | Brazil | Bahia-class | light cruiser | 3,100 | 1910 | lost 4 July 1945 |
Baltimore | United States Navy | Baltimore | heavy cruiser | 17,200 | 15 April 1943 | decommissioned 2 July 1954, scrapped 1972 |
Bari | Regia Marina | light cruiser | 3,284 | 14 December 1914 | sunk 28 June 1943 | |
Bartolomeo Colleoni | Regia Marina | Condottieri (Alberto da Giussano) | light cruiser | 5,200 | 10 February 1932 | Sunk 19 July 1940 |
Belfast | Royal Navy | Town (Edinburgh) | cruiser | 10,635 | 5 August 1939 | Museum ship since 21 October 1971 |
Bellona | Royal Navy | Dido (Bellona) | light cruiser | 5,950 | 29 October 1943 | scrapped 1959 |
Bermuda | Royal Navy | Crown Colony (Fiji) | light cruiser | 8,000 | 21 August 1942 | scrapped 1965 |
Berwick | Royal Navy | County (Kent) | heavy cruiser | 9,010 | 12 July 1927 | scrapped 1948 |
Biloxi | United States Navy | Cleveland | light cruiser | 11,800 | 31 August 1943 | Scrapped 1962 |
Birmingham | Royal Navy | Town (Southampton) | light cruiser | 9,770 | 18 November 1937 | scrapped 1960 |
Birmingham | United States Navy | Cleveland | light cruiser | 11,800 | 29 January 1943 | Scrapped 1959 |
Black Prince | Royal Navy | Dido (Bellona) | light cruiser | 5,950 | 30 November 1943 | scrapped 1962 |
Blanco Encalada | Chile | cruiser | 3,435 | ca.1893 | scrapped 1946 | |
Blücher | Kriegsmarine | Admiral Hipper | heavy cruiser | 14,000 | 20 September 1939 | sunk 9 April 1940 |
Boise | United States Navy | Brooklyn | light cruiser | 9,950 | 12 August 1938 | Decommissioned 11 January 1951, sold to Argentina. Scrapped 1978 |
Bonaventure | Royal Navy | Dido | light cruiser | 5,600 | 24 May 1940 | sunk 31 March 1941 |
Boston | United States Navy | Baltimore | heavy cruiser | 17,200 | 30 June 1943 | decommissioned 1970, scrapped 1975 |
Bremerton | United States Navy | Baltimore | heavy cruiser | 17,200 | 29 April 1945 | decommissioned 1960, scrapped 1974 |
Brooklyn | United States Navy | Brooklyn | light cruiser | 9,950 | 30 September 1937 | Decommissioned 3 January 1947, sold to Chile. Sank in Pacific 1992 |
Cairo | Royal Navy | C (Carlisle) | light cruiser | 4,200 | 24 September 1919 | lost 12 August 1942 |
Calcutta | Royal Navy | C (Carlisle) | light cruiser | 4,200 | 21 August 1919 | lost 1 June 1941 |
Caledon | Royal Navy | C (Caledon) | light cruiser | 4,180 | 6 March 1917 | scrapped 1948 |
Calypso | Royal Navy | C (Caledon) | light cruiser | 4,180 | 6 March 1917 | scrapped January 1948 |
Canberra | Royal Australian Navy | County (Kent) | heavy cruiser | 9,850 | 10 July 1928 | scuttled 9 August 1942 |
Canberra | United States Navy | Baltimore | heavy cruiser | 17,200 | 14 October 1943 | decommissioned 1970, scrapped 1980 |
Capetown | Royal Navy | C (Carlisle) | light cruiser | 4,200 | 10 April 1922 | Scrapped June 1946 |
Caradoc | Royal Navy | C (Caledon) | light cruiser | 4,180 | 15 June 1917 | scrapped 1946 |
Cardiff | Royal Navy | C (Ceres) | light cruiser | 4,290 | 25 June 1917 | scrapped 1946 |
Carlisle | Royal Navy | C (Carlisle) | light cruiser | 4,200 | 11 November 1918 | constructive total loss 9 October 1942, scrapped 1948 |
Ceres | Royal Navy | C (Ceres) | light cruiser | 4,290 | 1 June 1917 | scrapped 1946 |
Ceylon | Royal Navy | Crown Colony (Ceylon) | light cruiser | 8,800 | 13 July 1943 | sold to Peru 1959, renamed Colonel Bolognesi |
Chacabuco | Chile | Presidente Errazuriz | cruiser | 4,500 | Discarded 1952 | |
Chao Ho | China | Chao Ho | cruiser | 2,750 | 23 October 1911 | sunk 28 September 1937 |
Charybdis | Royal Navy | Dido | light cruiser | 5,600 | 3 December 1941 | sunk 23 October 1943 |
Chervona Ukraina | Soviet Navy | Admiral Nakhimov | light cruiser | 7,600 | 3 October 1913 | Sunk 12 November 1941 |
Chester | United States Navy | Northampton | heavy cruiser | 9,200 | 24 June 1930 | scrapped 1959 |
Chicago (I) | United States Navy | Northampton | heavy cruiser | 9,200 | 9 March 1931 | sunk 30 January 1943 |
Chicago (II) | United States Navy | Baltimore | heavy cruiser | 17,200 | 10 January 1945 | converted to missile cruiser 1964, decommissioned 1980, scrapped 1992 |
Chikuma | Imperial Japanese Navy | Tone | heavy cruiser | 15,200 | 30 May 1939 | sunk 25 October 1944 |
Chōkai | Imperial Japanese Navy | Takao | heavy cruiser | 15,781 | 1932 | sunk 25 October 1944 |
Cincinnati | United States Navy | Omaha | light cruiser | 7,050 | 1 January 1924 | scrapped 1946 |
Cleopatra | Royal Navy | Dido | light cruiser | 5,600 | 5 December 1941 | scrapped 1958 |
Cleveland | United States Navy | Cleveland | light cruiser | 10,000 | 15 June 1942 | decommissioned 7 February 1947, scrapped 1960 |
Colbert | French Navy | Suffren | heavy cruiser | 10,000 | 4 March 1931 | scuttled 27 November 1942 |
Colombo | Royal Navy | C (Carlisle) | light cruiser | 4,200 | 18 June 1919 | scrapped 1948 |
Columbia | United States Navy | Cleveland | light cruiser | 11,800 | 29 July 1942 | scrapped 1959 |
Columbus | United States Navy | Baltimore | heavy cruiser | 17,200 | 8 June 1945 | converted to missile cruiser 1962, scrapped 1977 |
Concord | United States Navy | Omaha | light cruiser | 7,050 | 3 November 1923 | scrapped 1947 |
Cornwall | Royal Navy | County (Kent) | heavy cruiser | 9,010 | 8 May 1928 | sunk 5 April 1942 |
Coventry | Royal Navy | C (Ceres) | light cruiser | 4,290 | 21 February 1918 | lost 14 September 1942 |
Cumberland | Royal Navy | County (Kent) | heavy cruiser | 9,010 | 23 February 1928 | scrapped 1959 |
Curacoa | Royal Navy | C (Ceres) | light cruiser | 4,290 | 18 February 1918 | lost 2 October 1942 |
Curlew | Royal Navy | C (Ceres) | light cruiser | 4,290 | 14 December 1917 | lost 26 May 1940 |
Danae | Royal Navy | Danae | cruiser | 4,850 | 22 July 1918 | to Poland as Conrad 4 October 1944, scrapped March 1948 |
Dauntless | Royal Navy | Danae | cruiser | 4,850 | 10 April 1918 | scrapped 1946 |
Dayton | United States Navy | Cleveland | light cruiser | 11,800 | 7 January 1945 | scrapped 1962 |
Delhi | Royal Navy | Danae | cruiser | 4,850 | June 1919 | scrapped 1948 |
Denver | United States Navy | Cleveland | light cruiser | 11,800 | 15 October 1942 | scrapped 1960 |
De Ruyter | Netherlands | De Ruyter | cruiser | 7,822 | 3 October 1936 | sunk 28 February 1942 |
Despatch | Royal Navy | Danae | cruiser | 4,850 | 2 June 1922 | scrapped 1946 |
Detroit | United States Navy | Omaha | light cruiser | 7,050 | 31 July 1923 | scrapped 1946 |
Deutschland | Kriegsmarine | Deutschland | heavy cruiser | 12,100 | 1 April 1933 | renamed Lützow |
Devonshire | Royal Navy | County (London) | heavy cruiser | 9,750 | 18 March 1929 | scrapped December 1954 |
Diadem | Royal Navy | Dido (Bellona) | light cruiser | 5,950 | 6 January 1944 | to Pakistan, 1956 |
Dido | Royal Navy | Dido | light cruiser | 5,700 | 30 September 1940 | scrapped 1957 |
Diomede | Royal Navy | Danae | cruiser | 4,850 | 24 April 1922 | scrapped 1946 |
Dorsetshire | Royal Navy | County (Norfolk) | heavy cruiser | 10,196 | 30 September 1930 | sunk 5 April 1942 |
Dragon | Royal Navy then Poland |
Danae | cruiser | 4,850 | August 1918 | damaged, then used as a blockship in "Gooseberry" breakwater, July 1944 |
Duca degli Abruzzi | Regia Marina | Condottieri (Duca degli Abruzzi) | light cruiser | 11,350 | 1 December 1937 | paid off January 1961, scrapped 1972 |
Duguay-Trouin | French Navy Free French Naval Forces |
Duguay-Trouin | light cruiser | 7,250 | 2 November 1926 | decommissioned 9 March 1952 |
Duluth | United States Navy | Cleveland | light cruiser | 11,800 | 18 September 1944 | scrapped 1960 |
Dunedin | Royal Navy | Danae | cruiser | 4,850 | 19 November 1918 | lost 24 November 1941 |
Dupleix | French Navy | Suffren | heavy cruiser | 10,000 | 7 July 1932 | scuttled 27 November 1942 |
Duquesne | French Navy Free French Naval Forces |
Duquesne | heavy cruiser | 10,000 | 6 December 1928 | condemned 1955 |
Durban | Royal Navy | Danae | cruiser | 4,850 | 1 November 1921 | "Gooseberry" breakwater blockship, 9 June 1944 |
Edinburgh | Royal Navy | Town (Edinburgh) | cruiser | 10,635 | 6 July 1939 | Sunk 2 May 1942 |
Effingham | Royal Navy | Hawkins | heavy cruiser | 9,750 | 2 July 1925 | wrecked 18 May 1940 |
Elli | Greece | Chao Ho | protected cruiser | 2,115 | November 1913 | sunk 15 August 1940 |
Emanuele Filiberto Duca d'Aosta | Regia Marina | Condottieri (Duca d'Aosta) | light cruiser | 8,450 | 13 July 1935 | ceded to USSR 1949, renamed Kerch, scrapped in 1960s |
Emden | Kriegsmarine | light cruiser | 5,600 | October 1925 | scuttled 3 May 1945 | |
Emerald | Royal Navy | Emerald | light cruiser | 7,580 | 14 January 1926 | scrapped July 1948 |
Émile Bertin | French Navy Free French Naval Forces |
Émile Bertin | light cruiser | 5,886 | 28 January 1935 | scrapped 1959 |
Enterprise | Royal Navy | Emerald | light cruiser | 7,580 | 7 April 1926 | scrapped April 1946 |
Eugenio di Savoia | Regia Marina | Condottieri (Duca d'Aosta) | light cruiser | 8,750 | 16 January 1936 | ceded to Greece 1950, renamed Elli, scrapped 1973 |
Euryalus | Royal Navy | Dido | light cruiser | 5,600 | 30 June 1941 | scrapped 1959 |
Exeter | Royal Navy | York | heavy cruiser | 8,390 | 23 July 1931 | sunk 1 March 1942 |
Fiji | Royal Navy | Crown Colony (Fiji) | light cruiser | 8,000 | 5 May 1940 | sunk 22 May 1941 |
Fiume | Regia Marina | Zara | heavy cruiser | 11,500 | 1931 | sunk 29 March 1941 |
Flint | United States Navy | Atlanta | light cruiser | 6,000 | 31 August 1944 | decommissioned 1947, scrapped 1966 |
Foch | French Navy | Suffren | heavy cruiser | 10,000 | 15 August 1931 | scuttled 27 November 1942 |
Frobisher | Royal Navy | Hawkins | heavy cruiser | 9,750 | 20 September 1924 | scrapped 26 March 1949 |
Furutaka | Imperial Japanese Navy | Furutaka | heavy cruiser | 9,150 | 31 March 1926 | sunk 20 December 1942 |
Galatea | Royal Navy | Arethusa | light cruiser | 5,220 | 23 May 1935 | sunk 14 December 1941 |
Gambia | Royal Navy Royal New Zealand Navy |
Crown Colony (Fiji) | light cruiser | 8,000 | 21 February 1942 | scrapped 1968 |
General Belgrano | Argentine Navy | Garibaldi | cruiser | 6,100 | c.1896 | Stricken 8 May 1947 |
General Pueyrredon | Argentine Navy | Garibaldi | cruiser | 6,100 | Stricken 2 August 1954 | |
George Leygues | French Navy Free French Naval Forces |
La Galissonnière | light cruiser | 7,600 | 15 November 1937 | scrapped 1959 |
Georgios Averof | Greece | armoured cruiser | 9,450 | 16 May 1911 | Decommissioned 1951, museum ship | |
Giovanni dalle Bande Nere | Regia Marina | Condottieri (Alberto da Giussano) | light cruiser | 5,200 | 10 February 1932 | Sunk 19 July 1940 |
Giuseppe Garibaldi | Regia Marina | Condottieri (Duca degli Abruzzi) | light cruiser | 9,195 | 1937 | scrapped 1972 |
Glasgow | Royal Navy | Town (Southampton) | light cruiser | 9,100 | 9 September 1937 | paid off November 1956 |
Gloire | French Navy Free French Naval Forces |
La Galissonnière | light cruiser | 7,600 | 15 November 1937 | scrapped 1958 |
Gloucester | Royal Navy | Town (Gloucester) | light cruiser | 9,400 | 31 January 1939 | sunk 22 May 1941 |
Gorizia | Regia Marina | Zara | heavy cruiser | 11,900 | 1931 | sunk 1943 |
Haguro | Imperial Japanese Navy | Myoko | heavy cruiser | 13,300 | 25 April 1929 | sunk 16 May 1945 |
Hawkins | Royal Navy | Hawkins | heavy cruiser | 9,750 | 25 July 1919 | scrapped 21 August 1947 |
Helena | United States Navy | St. Louis | light cruiser | 10,000 | 18 September 1939 | sunk 6 July 1943 |
Hekla | Denmark | 1,322 | ||||
Hermione | Royal Navy | Dido | light cruiser | 5,600 | 25 March 1941 | sunk 16 June 1942 |
Hobart | Royal Australian Navy | Leander (Amphion) | light cruiser | 6,980 | 28 September 1938 | scrapped 1962 |
Honolulu | United States Navy | Brooklyn | light cruiser | 9,650 | 15 June 1938 | scrapped 1959 |
Houston (I) | United States Navy | Northampton | heavy cruiser | 9,200 | 17 June 1930 | sunk 1 March 1942 |
Houston (II) | United States Navy | Cleveland | light cruiser | 11,800 | 20 December 1943 | scrapped 1959 |
Indianapolis | United States Navy | Portland | heavy cruiser | 9,800 | 15 November 1932 | sunk 30 July 1945 |
Iwate | Imperial Japanese Navy | Izumo | armoured cruiser | 9,750 | 18 March 1901 | sunk 26 July 1945 |
Izumo | Imperial Japanese Navy | Izumo | armoured cruiser | 9,750 | 25 September 1900 | sunk 24 July 1945 |
Isuzu | Imperial Japanese Navy | Nagara | light cruiser | 5,088 | 15 August 1923 | Sunk 7 April 1945 |
Jacob van Heemskerk | Netherlands | Tromp | 4,000 | 16 September 1939 | decommissioned 1969 | |
Jamaica | Royal Navy | Crown Colony (Fiji) | light cruiser | 8,000 | 29 June 1942 | scrapped 1960 |
Java | Netherlands | Java | cruiser | 8,078 | 1925 | sunk 27 February 1942 |
Jean de Vienne | French Navy | La Galissonnière | light cruiser | 7,600 | 10 February 1937 | scuttled 27 November 1942 |
Jeanne d'Arc | French Navy | Jeanne d'Arc | light cruiser | 6,496 | 14 August 1931 | scrapped 1965 |
Jintsu | Imperial Japanese Navy | Sendai | light cruiser | 7,100 | 31 July 1925 | sunk 13 July 1943 |
Juneau | United States Navy | Atlanta | light cruiser | 6,000 | 14 February 1942 | Sunk 13 November 1942 |
Kaganovich | Soviet Navy | Kirov (Project 26-bis2) | heavy cruiser | 8,200 | 6 December 1944 | |
Kako | Imperial Japanese Navy | Furutaka class | heavy cruiser | 7,950 | 31 July 1926 | sunk 10 August 1942 |
Kalinin | Soviet Navy | Kirov (Project 26-bis2) | heavy cruiser | 8,200 | 31 December 1942 | |
Karlsruhe | Kriegsmarine | Königsberg | light cruiser | 6,650 | 6 November 1929 | sunk 9 April 1940 |
Kashii | Imperial Japanese Navy | Katori | light cruiser | 6,180 | 15 July 1941 | sunk 12 January 1945 |
Kashima | Imperial Japanese Navy | Katori | light cruiser | 6,180 | 31 May 1940 | struck 5 October 1945; scrapped 1947 |
Katori | Imperial Japanese Navy | Katori | light cruiser | 6,180 | 20 April 1940 | sunk 18 February 1944 |
Kent | Royal Navy | County (Kent) | heavy cruiser | 10,010 | 25 June 1928 | scrapped 1948 |
Kenya | Royal Navy | Crown Colony (Fiji) | light cruiser | 8,000 | 27 September 1940 | scrapped 1962 |
Kinu | Imperial Japanese Navy | Nagara | light cruiser | 5,088 | 10 November 1922 | sun by USN aircraft, Sibuyan Sea 26 October 1944 |
Kinugasa | Imperial Japanese Navy | Aoba | heavy cruiser | 9,000 | 30 September 1927 | sunk 13 November 1942 |
Kirov | Soviet Navy | Kirov (Project 26) | heavy cruiser | 7,880 | 23 September 1938 | |
Kiso | Imperial Japanese Navy | Kuma | light cruiser | 5,100 | 29 January 1921 | 20 March 1944; Sunk by USN aircraft west of Cavite |
Kitakami | Imperial Japanese Navy | Kuma | light cruiser | 5,100 | 15 April 1921 | 30 November 1945; Scrapped |
Köln | Kriegsmarine | Königsberg | light cruiser | 6,650 | January 1930 | sunk 3 March 1945 |
Königsberg | Kriegsmarine | Königsberg | light cruiser | 6,650 | 17 April 1929 | sunk 10 April 1940,at Bergen, Norway |
Krasny Kavkaz | Soviet Navy | Admiral Nakhimov | light cruiser | 7,560 | 25 January 1932 | Sunk as a target 1956 |
Krasnyi Krym | Soviet Navy | Svetlana | cruiser | 6,800 | 1 July 1928 | Sunk as target in 1959 |
Kuma | Imperial Japanese Navy | Kuma | light cruiser | 5,550 | 31 August 1920 | 10 March 1944; Sunk by HMS Tally-Ho west of Penang |
Kumano | Imperial Japanese Navy | Mogami | heavy cruiser | 13,440 | 31 October 1931 | sunk 15 November 1944 |
La Argentina | Argentine Navy | light cruiser | 6,500 | discarded 1974 | ||
La Galissonnière | French Navy | La Galissonnière | light cruiser | 7,600 | 1 January 1936 | scuttled 27 November 1942 |
Lamotte-Piquet | French Navy | Duguay-Trouin | light cruiser | 7,249 | 5 March 1927 | sunk 12 January 1945 |
Leander | Royal New Zealand Navy | Leander | light cruiser | 6,985 | 23 July 1931 (former Leander (UK)) | returned to UK 8 May 1944, scrapped 1950 |
Leipzig | Kriegsmarine | Leipzig | light cruiser | 6,515 | 8 October 1931 | scuttled 11 July 1946 |
Liverpool | Royal Navy | Town (Gloucester) | light cruiser | 9,400 | 2 November 1938 | paid off 1952 |
London | Royal Navy | County (London) | heavy cruiser | 9,750 | 31 January 1929 | scrapped 1950 |
Los Angeles | United States Navy | Baltimore | heavy cruiser | 17,200 | 22 July 1945 | scrapped 1974 |
Lothringen | Kriegsmarine | minelayer cruiser | 1,975 | December 1941 | sold to merchant service post-war | |
Louisville | United States Navy | Northampton | heavy cruiser | 9,200 | 15 January 1931 | scrapped 1959 |
Luigi Cadorna | Regia Marina | Condottieri (Cadorna) | light cruiser | 5,316 | 11 August 1933 | scrapped 1951 |
Manchester | Royal Navy | Town (Gloucester) | light cruiser | 9,400 | 4 August 1938 | scuttled 13 August 1942 |
Marblehead | United States Navy | Omaha | light cruiser | 7,050 | 8 September 1924 | scrapped 1946 |
Marseillaise | French Navy | La Galissonniere | light cruiser | 7,600 | 10 October 1937 | scuttled 27 November 1942 |
Mauritius | Royal Navy | Crown Colony (Fiji) | light cruiser | 8,000 | 1 January 1941 | scrapped 1965 |
Maxim Gorky | Soviet Navy | Kirov (Project 26-bis) | heavy cruiser | 8,200 | 25 October 1940 | Decommissioned Feb. 1956 |
Maya | Imperial Japanese Navy | Takao | heavy cruiser | 13,350 | 30 June 1932 | Sunk 23 October 1944 |
Memphis | United States Navy | Omaha | light cruiser | 7,050 | 17 December 1925 | scrapped 1947 |
Miami | United States Navy | Cleveland | light cruiser | 11,800 | 28 December 1943 | scrapped 1962 |
Mikuma | Imperial Japanese Navy | Mogami | heavy cruiser | 13,440 | 29 August 1935 | Sunk 6 June 1942 |
Milwaukee/Murmansk | USA Soviet Navy | Omaha | light cruiser | 7,050 | 20 June 1923; to USSR as Murmansk 20 April 1944 | scrapped 10 December 1949 |
Minneapolis | United States Navy | New Orleans | heavy cruiser | 9,950 | 19 May 1934 | Decommissioned 10 February 1947, scrapped 1959 |
Mobile | United States Navy | Cleveland | light cruiser | 11,800 | 24 March 1943 | scrapped 1960 |
Mogami | Imperial Japanese Navy | Mogami | heavy cruiser | 12,400 | 1935 | Sunk 25 October 1944 |
Molotov | Soviet Navy | Kirov (Project 26-bis) | heavy cruiser | 8,200 | 25 October 1940 | decommissioned February 1956 |
Montcalm | French Navy Free French Naval Forces |
La Galissonniere | light cruiser | 7,600 | 15 November 1937 | Decommissioned 1 May 1957 |
Montpelier | United States Navy | Cleveland | light cruiser | 11,800 | 9 September 1942 | scrapped 1960 |
Muzio Attendolo | Regia Marina | Condottieri (Montecuccoli) | light cruiser | 3,184 | 1935 | lost 1942 |
Myōkō | Imperial Japanese Navy | Myōkō | heavy cruiser | 13,380 | 1929 | scuttled by Royal Navy 8 June 1946 |
Naiad | Royal Navy | Dido | light cruiser | 5,600 | 24 July 1940 | sunk 11 March 1942 |
Nachi | Imperial Japanese Navy | Myōkō | heavy cruiser | 13,380 | sunk 5 November 1944 | |
Nagara | Imperial Japanese Navy | Nagara | light cruiser | 5,088 | lost 7 August 1944 | |
Naka | Imperial Japanese Navy | Sendai | light cruiser | 7,100 | 1925 | sunk 17 February 1944 |
Nashville | United States Navy | Brooklyn | light cruiser | 9,475 | 6 June 1938 | sold to Chile 1951 (Capitan Prat) |
Natori | Imperial Japanese Navy | Nagara | light cruiser | 5,088 | lost 18 August 1944 | |
Neptune | Royal Navy | Leander | light cruiser | 7,000 | 23 February 1934 | lost 19 December 1941 |
New Orleans | United States Navy | New Orleans | heavy cruiser | 9,950 | 12 April 1933 | Decommissioned 10 February 1947, scrapped 1959 |
Newcastle | Royal Navy | Town (Southampton) | cruiser | 9,100 | 5 March 1937 | scrapped August 1959 |
Newfoundland | Royal Navy | Crown Colony (Ceylon) | light cruiser | 8,800 | 21 January 1943 | sold to Peru 1959, renamed Almirante Grau |
Nigeria | Royal Navy | Crown Colony (Fiji) | light cruiser | 8,000 | 23 September 1940 | sold to India 29 August 1957, renamed Mysore |
Ning Hai | China | light cruiser | 2,200 | became Ioshima (Japan) | ||
Niobe | Kriegsmarine | Holland | cruiser | 4,100 | 15 July 1900 | captured from Dutch as Gelderland 17 May 1940, sunk 16 July 1944 |
Norfolk | Royal Navy | County (Norfolk) | heavy cruiser | 10,196 | 30 April 1930 | scrapped 1950 |
Northampton | United States Navy | Northampton | heavy cruiser | 9,050 | 17 May 1930 | lost 1 December 1942 |
Noshiro | Imperial Japanese Navy | Agano | light cruiser | 6,650 | Sunk 26 October 1944 | |
Nürnberg | Kriegsmarine | Leipzig | light cruiser | 6,980 | 2 November 1935 | transferred to Soviet Union as Admiral Makarov 1945, scrapped 1960 |
Oakland | United States Navy | Atlanta | light cruiser | 6,000 | 17 July 1943 | decommissioned 1949, scrapped 1959 |
Ōi | Imperial Japanese Navy | Kuma | light cruiser | 5,100 | 10 October 1921 | sunk19 July 1944 |
Oklahoma City | United States Navy | Cleveland | light cruiser | 11,800 | 22 December 1944 | converted to missile cruiser 1960, sunk as target 1999 |
Omaha | United States Navy | Omaha | 7,050 | 24 February 1923 | Scrapped February 1946 | |
Ontario | Royal Canadian Navy | Minotaur | light cruiser | 8,800 | July 1944 | laid up 15 October 1958 |
Orion | Royal Navy | Leander | light cruiser | 7,000 | 18 January 1934 | scrapped 1949 |
Ōyodo | Imperial Japanese Navy | Ōyodo | light cruiser | 11,433 | 28 February 1943 | sunk 25 July 1945 |
Pasadena | United States Navy | Cleveland | light cruiser | 11,800 | 8 June 1944 | scrapped 1970 |
Penelope | Royal Navy | Arethusa | light cruiser | 5,220 | 13 November 1936 | sunk 18 February 1944 |
Pensacola | United States Navy | Pensacola | heavy cruiser | 9,100 | 6 February 1930 | sunk as target 1948 |
Perth | Royal Australian Navy | Leander (Amphion) | light cruiser | 6,980 | 29 June 1939 (former HMS Amphion) | sunk 1 March 1942 |
Petropavlovsk | Soviet Navy | Admiral Hipper | heavy cruiser | 14,680 | fought incomplete in siege of Leningrad, and as Tallinn | |
Philadelphia | United States Navy | Brooklyn | light cruiser | 10,200 | 23 September 1937 | transferred to Brazil as Almirante Barroso 1951, scrapped 1973 |
Phoebe | Royal Navy | Dido | light cruiser | 5,600 | 27 September 1940 | scrapped 1956 |
Phoenix | United States Navy | Brooklyn | light cruiser | 10,200 | 3 October 1938 | transferred to Argentina as General Belgrano, sunk 2 May 1982 |
Pittsburgh | United States Navy | Baltimore | heavy cruiser | 17,200 | 10 October 1944 | decommissioned 1956, scrapped 1974 |
Pluton | French Navy | minelayer light cruiser | 4,773 | 10 April 1931 | lost 13 September 1939 | |
Pola | Regia Marina | Zara | heavy cruiser | 11,730 | 1932 | sunk 28 March 1941 |
Pompeo Magno | Regia Marina | Capitani Romani | light cruiser | 3,750 | 4 June 1943 | paid off and scrapped 1980 |
Portland | United States Navy | Portland | heavy cruiser | 9,950 | 23 February 1933 | decommissioned 1946, scrapped 1959 |
Portsmouth | United States Navy | Cleveland | light cruiser | 11,800 | 20 September 1944 | scrapped 1974 |
Primauguet | French Navy | Duguay-Trouin | light cruiser | 7,249 | 1 April 1927 | scuttled 8 November 1942 |
Prinz Eugen | Kriegsmarine | Admiral Hipper | heavy cruiser | 14,680 | 1 August 1940 | sunk after A-bomb test at Bikini in 1946 |
Providence | United States Navy | Cleveland | light cruiser | 11,800 | 15 May 1945 | converted to missile cruiser 1959, scrapped 1980 |
Quincy I | United States Navy | New Orleans | heavy cruiser | 9,375 | 9 June 1936 | sunk 9 August 1942 |
Quincy II | United States Navy | Baltimore | heavy cruiser | 13,600 | December 1943 | decommissioned 1954 and scrapped in 1974 |
Raimondo Montecuccoli | Regia Marina | Condottieri (Montecuccoli) | light cruiser | 3,184 | 1935 | decommissioned 1964 |
Raleigh | United States Navy | Omaha | light cruiser | 7,050 | 6 February 1924 | scrapped 1946 |
Reno | United States Navy | Atlanta | light cruiser | 6,000 | 28 December 1943 | decommissioned 1946, scrapped 1962 |
Richmond | United States Navy | Omaha | light cruiser | 7,050 | 2 July 1923 | scrapped 1946 |
Rio Grande do Sul | Royal Navy | Bahia | light cruiser | 3,100 | 1910 | scrapped 1948 |
Royalist | Royal Navy | Dido (Bellona) | light cruiser | 5,950 | 10 September 1943 | scrapped 1968 |
Sakawa | Imperial Japanese Navy | Agano | light cruiser | 6,650 | 30 November 1944 | sunk as target 2 July 1946 |
Salt Lake City | United States Navy | Pensacola | heavy cruiser | 9,100 | 11 December 1929 | sunk as target 1948 |
San Diego | United States Navy | Atlanta | light cruiser | 6,000 | 10 January 1942 | decommissioned 1946, scrapped 1960 |
San Francisco | United States Navy | New Orleans | heavy cruiser | 9,950 | 10 February 1934 | Decommissioned 10 February 1946, scrapped 1959 |
San Giorgio | Regia Marina | San Giorgio | heavy cruiser | 10,167 | 1 July 1910 | decommissioned 22 January 1941 |
San Juan | United States Navy | Atlanta | light cruiser | 6,000 | 28 February 1942 | decommissioned 1946, scrapped 1961 |
Santa Fe | United States Navy | Cleveland | light cruiser | 11,800 | 24 November 1942 | scrapped 1959 |
Savannah | United States Navy | Brooklyn | light cruiser | 9,475 | 10 March 1938 | scrapped 1966 |
Scipione Africano | Regia Marina | Capitani Romani | light cruiser | 3,750 | 23 April 1943 | to France post-war, scrapped 1979 |
Scylla | Royal Navy | Dido | light cruiser | 5,600 | 12 June 1942 | scrapped 1950 |
Sendai | Imperial Japanese Navy | Sendai | light cruiser | 5,195 | 29 April 1924 | sunk 2 November 1943 |
Sheffield | Royal Navy | Town (Southampton) | light cruiser | 9,100 | 25 August 1937 | scrapped 1967 |
Shropshire | Royal Navy Royal Australian Navy |
County (London) | heavy cruiser | 9,750 | 24 September 1929 | to Australia 20 April 1943, paid off 10 November 1949, scrapped December 1954 |
Sirius | Royal Navy | Dido | light cruiser | 5,600 | 6 May 1942 | scrapped 1956 |
Sussex | Royal Navy | County (London) | heavy cruiser | 9,750 | 19 March 1929 | scrapped February 1950 |
Southampton | Royal Navy | Town (Southampton) | light cruiser | 9,100 | 6 March 1937 | scuttled 11 January 1941 |
Spartan | Royal Navy | Dido (Bellona) | light cruiser | 5,950 | 12 July 1943 | sunk 29 January 1944 |
Springfield | United States Navy | Cleveland | light cruiser | 10,160 | 9 September 1944 | converted to Providence Class Guided Missile Cruiser 1960, decommissioned 1974, scrapped 1980 |
St. Louis | United States Navy | St. Louis | light cruiser | 10,000 | 19 May 1939 | to Brazil as Tamandare 1951, sunk under tow 1980 |
Saint Paul | United States Navy | Baltimore | heavy cruiser | 17,200 | 17 February 1945 | decommissioned 1971, scrapped 1980 |
Suffolk | Royal Navy | County (Kent) | heavy cruiser | 9,010 | 31 May 1928 | scrapped 1948 |
Suffren | French Navy Free French Naval Forces |
Suffren | heavy cruiser | 9,940 | 1 January 1930 | scrapped 1974 |
Sumatra | Netherlands | Java | 8,087 | 26 May 1926 | scuttled off the coast of Normandy on 9 June 1944 at Ouistreham as part of a "gooseberry" pier to protect an artificial Allied Mulberry Harbour built as part of Operation Overlord. | |
Suzuya | Imperial Japanese Navy | Mogami | heavy cruiser | 15,900 | October 1937 | sunk 25 October 1944 |
Swiftsure | Royal Navy | Minotaur | light cruiser | 8,800 | 22 June 1944 | paid off 1958, scrapped 1962 |
Sydney | Royal Australian Navy | Leander (Amphion) | light cruiser | 6,980 | 24 September 1935 | sunk 19 November 1941 |
Takao | Imperial Japanese Navy | Takao | heavy cruiser | 13,160 | 31 May 1932 | Sunk 31 July 1945 |
Tama | Imperial Japanese Navy | cruiser | 5,100 | 29 January 1921 | Sunk 20 October 1944 | |
Taranto | Regia Marina | light cruiser | 3,184 | 1925 (former German Strassburg) | scuttled 23 September 1943 | |
Tatsuta | Imperial Japanese Navy | Tenryu | light cruiser | 4,350 | 31 May 1919 | Sunk 13 March 1944 |
Tenryū | Imperial Japanese Navy | Tenryu | light cruiser | 4,350 | 20 November 1919 | Sunk 18 December 1942 |
Tokiwa | Imperial Japanese Navy | Asama | armoured cruiser | 9,700 | 18 May 1899 | Sunk 9 August 1945 |
Tone | Imperial Japanese Navy | Tone | heavy cruiser | 15,200 | 30 November 1938 | Sunk 14 July 1945 |
Topeka | United States Navy | Cleveland | light cruiser | 11,800 | 23 December 1944 | converted to missile cruiser 1960, scrapped 1975 |
Tourville | French Navy Free French Naval Forces |
Duquesne | heavy cruiser | 10,000 | 1 December 1928 | condemned 1962 |
Trento | Regia Marina | Trento | heavy cruiser | 10,511 | 1929 | sunk 14 June 1942 |
Trenton | United States Navy | Omaha | light cruiser | 7,050 | 19 April 1924 | scrapped 1946 |
Trieste | Regia Marina | Trento | heavy cruiser | 10,511 | 1928 | sunk 1943 |
Trinidad | Royal Navy | Crown Colony (Fiji) | light cruiser | 8,000 | 14 October 1941 | sunk 15 May 1942 |
Tromp | Netherlands | Tromp | cruiser | 4,000 | 18 August 1938 | decommissioned 1955 |
Tucson | United States Navy | Atlanta | light cruiser | 6,000 | 3 February 1945 | scrapped 1971 |
Tuscaloosa | United States Navy | New Orleans | heavy cruiser | 9,950 | 17 August 1934 | Decommissioned 13 February 1946, scrapped 1959 |
Uganda | Royal Navy Royal Canadian Navy |
Crown Colony (Ceylon) | light cruiser | 8,800 | 21 October 1944 | transferred to RCN 21 October 1944, scrapped 1961 |
Veinticinco de Mayo | Argentine Navy | Veinticinco de Mayo | heavy cruiser | 6,800 | 18 July 1931 | scrapped 1962 |
Vicksburg | United States Navy | Cleveland | light cruiser | 11,800 | 12 June 1944 | scrapped 1964 |
Vincennes I | United States Navy | New Orleans | heavy cruiser | 9,400 | 24 February 1937 | sunk 9 August 1942 |
Vincennes II | United States Navy | Cleveland | light cruiser | 11,800 | 21 January 1944 | sunk as target 1966 |
Voroshilov | Soviet Navy | Kirov (Project 26) | heavy cruiser | 7,880 | 20 June 1940 | scrapped 1960s |
Wichita | United States Navy | heavy cruiser | 10,000 | 16 February 1939 | decommissioned 1947, scrapped 1959 | |
Wilkes-Barre | United States Navy | Cleveland | light cruiser | 11,800 | 1 July 1944 | sunk as target 1972 |
Yahagi | Imperial Japanese Navy | Agano | light cruiser | 6,650 | 29 December 1943 | sunk 7 April 1945 |
Yakumo | Imperial Japanese Navy | armoured cruiser | 9,646 | 20 June 1900 | scrapped 1 April 1947 | |
Yasoshima | Imperial Japanese Navy | Chao Ho | cruiser | 2,200 | 18 June 1936 | sunk 23 September 1937 as Ping Hai, raised by Japan |
Ying Swei | China | Chao Ho | cruiser | 2,460 | ca.1911 | Sunk 25 October 1937 |
York | Royal Navy | York | heavy cruiser | 8,250 | 1 May 1930 | constructive loss 26 March 1941, scrapped 1952 |
Yubari | Imperial Japanese Navy | light cruiser | 2,890 | 1923 | sunk 27 April 1944 | |
Yura | Imperial Japanese Navy | Nagara | light cruiser | 5,088 | 1922 | lost 25 October 1942 |
Zara | Regia Marina | Zara | heavy cruiser | 11,500 | 20 October 1931 | sunk 29 March 1941 |
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