List of cruisers of the Second World War

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]

Dates are year_month_day to allow ordering. Click on headers to sort column alphabetically.

Ship Country Class Type Displacement (tons) First commissioned Fate
Abukuma  Imperial Japanese Navy Nagara-class light cruiser 5,088 26 May 1925 Sunk 26 October 1944[3]
Achilles  Royal Navy
 Royal New Zealand Navy		 Leander-class light cruiser 7,270 6 October 1933 sold to India 1948
Adelaide  Royal Australian Navy Birmingham-class light cruiser 5,550 5 August 1922 Scrapped 1949
Admiral Graf Spee  Kriegsmarine Deutschland-class cruiser 12,103 6 January 1936 scuttled 17 December 1939
Admiral Hipper  Kriegsmarine Admiral Hipper-class cruiser 14,000 25 April 1939 Scuttled 2 May 1945
Admiral Scheer  Kriegsmarine Deutschland-class cruiser 12,100 12 November 1934 Sunk 9 April 1945
Agano  Imperial Japanese Navy Agano-class light cruiser 6,650 31 October 1942 Sunk 15 February 1944
Ajax  Royal Navy Leander-class light cruiser 7,220 3 June 1935 Scrapped 1949
Alaska  United States Navy Alaska-class large cruiser 27,500 17 June 1944 Scrapped 1960
Alberico da Barbiano  Regia Marina Giussano-class light cruiser 5,200 1931 Sunk 13 December 1941
Alberto di Giussano  Regia Marina Giussano-class light cruiser 5,200 1 January 1931 Sunk 13 December 1941
Alcantara  Royal Navy Armed merchant cruiser 22,181 1927 Scrapped 1958
Algérie  French Navy Heavy cruiser 10,000 15 September 1934 scuttled 27 November 1942
Amsterdam  United States Navy Cleveland-class light cruiser 11,800 8 January 1945 Scrapped 1971
Aoba  Imperial Japanese Navy Aoba-class heavy cruiser 5,088 20 September 1927 Sunk 28 July 1945
Arcona  Kriegsmarine Floating anti-aircraft battery (former light cruiser) 2,657 18 May 1901 Scrapped 1948/1949
Armando Diaz  Regia Marina Luigi Cadorna-class light cruiser 5,316 29 April 1933 Sunk 25 February 1941
Ashigara  Imperial Japanese Navy Myoko-class heavy cruiser 13,300 1928 Sunk 8 June 1945
Astoria (CA-34)  Argentine Navy New Orleans-class heavy cruiser 9,950 28 April 1934 Sunk 9 August 1942 Battle of Savo Island
Astoria (CL-90)  United States Navy Cleveland-class light cruiser 11,800 17 May 1944 Scrapped 1971
Atago  Imperial Japanese Navy Takao-class heavy cruiser 14,616 30 March 1932 Sunk 23 October 1944
Atlanta (CL-51)  United States Navy Atlanta-class light cruiser 6,000 24 December 1941 Sunk 13 November 1942 Guadalcanal
Atlanta (CL-104)  United States Navy Cleveland-class light cruiser 11,800 3 December 1944 Sunk as target 1970
Atlantis  Kriegsmarine auxiliary cruiser 7,862 19 December 1939 Sunk 21 November 1941
Attilio Regolo  Regia Marina Capitani Romani-class light cruiser (also known as exploratori oceanici) 3,750 August 1942 ceded to France 1948
Augusta  United States Navy Northampton-class heavy cruiser 9,200 30 January 1931 Scrapped 1960
Aurora  Soviet Navy Protected cruiser 6,731 29 July 1903 In 1957 became a museum ship.
Australia  Royal Australian Navy County-class 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-class heavy cruiser 17,200 15 April 1943 decommissioned 2 July 1954, scrapped 1972
Bari  Regia Marina light cruiser 3,284 1925 (former SMS Pillau) sunk 28 June 1943
Bartolomeo Colleoni  Regia Marina Giussano-class light cruiser 5,200 10 February 1932 Sunk 19 July 1940
Belfast  Royal Navy Town-class cruiser 11,553 5 August 1939 Museum ship since 21 October 1971 moored in London next to Tower Bridge
Bermuda  Royal Navy Fiji-class cruiser 8,000 21 August 1942 scrapped 1965
Biloxi  United States Navy Cleveland-class light cruiser 11,800 31 August 1943 Scrapped 1962
HMS Birmingham  Royal Navy Southampton-class light cruiser 9,770 18 November 1937 scrapped 1960
USS Birmingham  United States Navy Cleveland-class light cruiser 11,800 29 January 1943 Scrapped 1959
Black Prince  Royal Navy Dido-class light cruiser 5,950 30 November 1943 Decommissioned March 1962
Blanco Encalada  Chile cruiser 3,435 ca.1893 scrapped 1946
Blücher  Kriegsmarine Admiral Hipper-class heavy cruiser 14,000 20 September 1939 sunk 9 April 1940
Boise  United States Navy Brooklyn-class light cruiser 9,950 12 August 1938 Decommissioned 11 January 1951, sold to Argentina. Scrapped 1978
Boston  United States Navy Baltimore-class heavy cruiser 17,200 30 June 1943 decommissioned 1970, scrapped 1975
Bremerton  United States Navy Baltimore-class heavy cruiser 17,200 29 April 1945 decommissioned 1960, scrapped 1974
Brooklyn  United States Navy Brooklyn-class light cruiser 9,950 30 September 1937 Decommissioned 3 January 1947, sold to Chile. Sank in Pacific 1992
Cairo  Royal Navy C class light cruiser 4,200 24 September 1919 lost 12 August 1942
Calcutta  Royal Navy C class light cruiser 4,200 21 August 1919 lost 1 June 1941
Caledon  Royal Navy C-class cruiser 4,180 6 March 1917 scrapped 1948
Calypso  Royal Navy C class light cruiser 4,180 6 March 1917 scrapped January 1948
HMAS Canberra  Royal Australian Navy County class heavy cruiser 9,850 10 July 1928 scuttled 9 August 1942
USS Canberra  United States Navy Baltimore class heavy cruiser 17,200 14 October 1943 decommissioned 1970, scrapped 1980
Capetown  Royal Navy C class light cruiser 4,200 10 April 1922 Scrapped June 1946
Caradoc  Royal Navy C class light cruiser 4,180 15 June 1917 scrapped 1946
Cardiff  Royal Navy C class light cruiser 4,290 25 June 1917 scrapped 1946
Carlisle  Royal Navy C class light cruiser 4,200 11 November 1918 constructive total loss 9 October 1942, scrapped 1948
Ceres  Royal Navy C class light cruiser 4,290 1 June 1917 scrapped 1946
Ceylon  Royal Navy Fiji class cruiser 8,800 13 July 1943 sold to Peru 1959, renamed Colonel Bolognesi
Chacabuco  Chile Presidente Errazuriz class cruiser 4,500 Discarded 1952
Chao Ho  China Chao Ho class cruiser 2,750 23 October 1911 sunk 28 September 1937
Chervona Ukraina  Soviet Navy Svetlana class light cruiser 7,600 3 October 1913 Sunk 12 November 1941
Chester  United States Navy Northampton class heavy cruiser 9,200 24 June 1930 scrapped 1959
Chicago (I)  United States Navy Northampton class heavy cruiser 9,200 9 March 1931 sunk 30 January 1943
Chicago (II)  United States Navy Baltimore class heavy cruiser 17,200 10 January 1945 converted to missile cruiser 1964, decommissioned 1980, scrapped 1992
Chikuma  Imperial Japanese Navy Tone class heavy cruiser 15,200 30 May 1939 sunk 25 October 1944
Chōkai  Imperial Japanese Navy Takao class heavy cruiser 15,781 1932 sunk 25 October 1944
Cincinnati  United States Navy Omaha class light cruiser 7,050 1 January 1924 scrapped 1946
Cleveland  United States Navy Cleveland class light cruiser 10,000 15 June 1942 decommissioned 7 February 1947, scrapped 1960
Colbert  French Navy Suffren class heavy cruiser 10,000 4 March 1931 scuttled 27 November 1942
Colombo  Royal Navy C class light cruiser 4,200 18 June 1919 scrapped 1948
USS Columbia  United States Navy Cleveland class light cruiser 11,800 29 July 1942 scrapped 1959
Columbus  United States Navy Baltimore class heavy cruiser 17,200 8 June 1945 converted to missile cruiser 1962, scrapped 1977
Concord  United States Navy Omaha class light cruiser 7,050 3 November 1923 scrapped 1947
ORP Conrad ex. HMS Danae  Royal Navy Poland D class cruiser 4,850 4 October 1944 returned to Royal Navy 28 September 1946, scrapped March 1948
Coronel  Kriegsmarine auxiliary cruiser 12,700 13 August 1938 ran aground 21 November 1984
Coventry  Royal Navy C class light cruiser 4,290 21 February 1918 lost 14 September 1942
Curacoa  Royal Navy C class light cruiser 4,290 18 February 1918 lost 2 October 1942
Curlew  Royal Navy C class light cruiser 4,290 14 December 1917 lost 26 May 1940
Dauntless  Royal Navy Danae class cruiser 4,850 10 April 1918 scrapped 1946
Dayton  United States Navy Cleveland class light cruiser 11,800 7 January 1945 scrapped 1962
Delhi  Royal Navy Danae class cruiser 4,850 June 1919 scrapped 1948
Denver  United States Navy Cleveland class light cruiser 11,800 15 October 1942 scrapped 1960
De Ruyter  Netherlands De Ruyter class cruiser 7,822 3 October 1936 sunk 28 February 1942
Despatch  Royal Navy Danae class cruiser 4,850 2 June 1922 scrapped 1946
Detroit  United States Navy Omaha class light cruiser 7,050 31 July 1923 scrapped 1946
Deutschland  Kriegsmarine Deutschland class heavy cruiser 12,100 1 April 1933 renamed Lützow
Devonshire  Royal Navy County class cruiser 9,750 18 March 1929 scrapped December 1954
Diomede  Royal Navy Danae class cruiser 4,850 24 April 1922 scrapped 1946
Dragon  Royal Navy
then  Poland		 Danae class cruiser 4,850 August 1918 damaged, then used as a blockship in "Gooseberry" breakwater, July 1944
Duguay-Trouin  French Navy
 Free French Naval Forces		 Duguay-Trouin class light cruiser 7,250 2 November 1926 decommissioned 9 March 1952
Duluth  United States Navy Cleveland class light cruiser 11,800 18 September 1944 scrapped 1960
Dunedin  Royal Navy Danae class cruiser 4,850 19 November 1918 lost 24 November 1941
Dunvegan Castle  Royal Navy Armed merchant cruiser 15,007 7 September 1939 sunk 28 August 1940
Dupleix  French Navy Suffren class heavy cruiser 10,000 7 July 1932 scuttled 27 November 1942
Duquesne  French Navy
 Free French Naval Forces		 Duquesne class heavy cruiser 10,000 6 December 1928 condemned 1955
Durban  Royal Navy Danae-class cruiser 4,850 1 November 1921 "Gooseberry" breakwater blockship, 9 June 1944
Edinburgh  Royal Navy Town class light cruiser 11,500 6 July 1939 lost 2 May 1942
Effingham  Royal Navy Hawkins heavy cruiser 9,750 2 July 1925 wrecked 18 May 1940
Elli  Greece Chao Ho class protected cruiser 2,115 November 1913 sunk 15 August 1940
Emanuele Filiberto Duca d'Aosta  Regia Marina Duca d'Aosta class 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 class light cruiser 7,580 14 January 1926 scrapped July 1948
Émile Bertin  French Navy
 Free French Naval Forces		 Émile Bertin class light cruiser 5,886 28 January 1935 scrapped 1959
Enterprise  Royal Navy Emerald class light cruiser 7,580 7 April 1926 scrapped April 1946
Eugenio di Savoia  Regia Marina Duca d'Aosta class light cruiser 8,750 16 January 1936 ceded to Greece 1950, renamed Elli, scrapped 1973
Exeter  Royal Navy York class cruiser 8,390 23 July 1931 sunk 1 March 1942
Fiji  Royal Navy Crown Colony-class cruiser 8,000 5 May 1940 sunk 22 May 1941
Fiume  Regia Marina Zara class heavy cruiser 11,500 1931 sunk 29 March 1941
USS Flint  United States Navy Atlanta class light cruiser 6,000 31 August 1944 decommissioned 1947, scrapped 1966
Foch  French Navy Suffren class heavy cruiser 10,000 15 August 1931 scuttled 27 November 1942
Furutaka  Imperial Japanese Navy Furutaka class heavy cruiser 9.150 31 March 1926 sunk 20 December 1942
Fyen  Denmark light cruiser hulk 2,737
Gambia  Royal Navy
 Royal New Zealand Navy		 Fiji class light cruiser 8,000 21 February 1942 scrapped 1968
Gelderland  Netherlands Holland class cruiser (pantserdekschip) 4,100 16 July 1900 captured by Germany 1940, renamed Niobe, sunk 16 July 1944
General Belgrano  Argentine Navy Garibaldi class cruiser 6,100 c.1896 Stricken 8 May 1947
General Pueyrredon  Argentine Navy Garibaldi class cruiser 6,100 Stricken 2 August 1954
George Leygues  French Navy
 Free French Naval Forces		 La Galissonnière class light cruiser 7,600 15 November 1937 scrapped 1959
Georgios Averof  Greece armored cruiser 9,450 16 May 1911 Decommissioned 1951, museum ship
Giovanni dalle Bande Nere  Regia Marina Giussano class light cruiser 5,200 10 February 1932 Sunk 19 July 1940
Giuseppe Garibaldi  Regia Marina Duca degli Abruzzi class light cruiser 9,195 1937 scrapped 1972
Gloire  French Navy
 Free French Naval Forces		 La Galissonnière class light cruiser 7,600 15 November 1937 scrapped 1958
Gloucester  Royal Navy Town-class light cruiser 9,400 31 January 1939 Sunk on 22 May 1941 during the Battle of Crete[4]
Good Hope  South African Navy Loch class frigate 1,435 1 December 1944 scrapped June 1978
Gorizia  Regia Marina Zara class heavy cruiser 11,900 1931 sunk 1943
Graf Spee (short name for Admiral Graf Spee)  Kriegsmarine Deutschland class pocket battleship or heavy cruiser 12,100 6 January 1936 scuttled 17 December 1939
Guam  United States Navy Alaska-class cruiser 27,500 17 September 1944 scrapped August 1961
Haguro  Imperial Japanese Navy Myoko class heavy cruiser 13,300 25 April 1929 sunk 16 May 1945
Hansa  Kriegsmarine auxiliary cruiser 9,138 2 February 1944 scrapped 1971
Helena  United States Navy St. Louis class light cruiser 10,000 18 September 1939 sunk 6 July 1943
Hekla  Denmark light cruiser hulk 1,322
Hobart  Royal Australian Navy modified Leander class light cruiser 6,980 28 September 1938 scrapped 1962
Honolulu  United States Navy Brooklyn class light cruiser 9,650 15 June 1938 scrapped 1959
Houston (I)  United States Navy Northampton class heavy cruiser 9,200 17 June 1930 sunk 1 March 1942
Houston (II)  United States Navy Cleveland class light cruiser 11,800 20 December 1943 scrapped 1959
Indianapolis  United States Navy Portland-class heavy cruiser 9,800 15 November 1932 sunk 30 July 1945
Iwate  Imperial Japanese Navy Izumo-class armored cruiser 9,750 18 March 1901 sunk 26 July 1945
Izumo  Imperial Japanese Navy Izumo-class armored cruiser 9,750 25 September 1900 sunk 24 July 1945
Isuzu  Imperial Japanese Navy Nagara-class light cruiser 5,088 15 August 1923 Sunk 7 April 1945
Jacob van Heemskerk  Netherlands Tromp-class cruiser 4,000 16 September 1939 decommissioned 1969
Jamaica  Royal Navy Fiji-class cruiser 8,000 29 June 1942 scrapped 1960
Java  Netherlands Java class cruiser 8,078 1925 sunk 27 February 1942
Jean de Vienne  French Navy La Galissonnière-class light cruiser 7,600 10 February 1937 scuttled 27 November 1942
Jeanne d'Arc  French Navy Jeanne d'Arc-class light cruiser 6,496 14 August 1931 scrapped 1965
Jervis Bay  Royal Navy Armed Merchant Cruiser 14,164 October 1940 sunk 5 November 1940
Jintsu  Imperial Japanese Navy Sendai-class light cruiser 7,100 31 July 1925 sunk 13 July 1943
Juneau  United States Navy Atlanta-class light cruiser 6,000 14 February 1942 Sunk 13 November 1942
Kaganovich  Soviet Navy Maxim Gorkiy (Project 26 bis) class 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 Maxim Gorkiy (Project 26 bis) class heavy cruiser 8,200 31 December 1942
Karlsruhe  Kriegsmarine K class light cruiser 6,650 6 November 1929 sunk 9 April 1940
Kashii  Imperial Japanese Navy Katori class light cruiser 6,180 15 July 1941 sunk 12 January 1945
Kashima  Imperial Japanese Navy Katori class light cruiser 6,180 31 May 1940 struck 5 October 1945; scrapped 1947
Katori  Imperial Japanese Navy Katori class light cruiser 6,180 20 April 1940 sunk 18 February 1944
Kent  Royal Navy County class heavy cruiser 9,750 25 June 1928 scrapped January 1948
Kenya  Royal Navy Fiji class light cruiser 8,000 27 September 1940 scrapped 1962
Kinu  Imperial Japanese Navy Nagara class light cruiser 5,088 10 November 1922 sun by USN aircraft, Sibuyan Sea 26 October 1944
Kinugasa  Imperial Japanese Navy Aoba class heavy cruiser 9,000 30 September 1927 sunk 13 November 1942
Kirov  Soviet Navy Kirov (Project 26) class heavy cruiser 7,880 23 September 1938
Kiso  Imperial Japanese Navy Kuma class light cruiser 5,100 29 January 1921 20 March 1944; Sunk by USN aircraft west of Cavite
Kitakami  Imperial Japanese Navy Kuma class light cruiser 5,100 15 April 1921 30 November 1945; Scrapped
Köln  Kriegsmarine K class light cruiser 6,650 January 1930 sunk 3 March 1945
Komet  Kriegsmarine auxiliary cruiser 7,500 2 June 1940 (former freighter Ems) sunk 14 October 1942
Königsberg  Kriegsmarine K class light cruiser 6,650 17 April 1929 sunk 10 April 1940,at Bergen, Norway
Kormoran  Kriegsmarine auxiliary cruiser 19,900 9 October 1940 (former freighter Steiermark) 19 November 1941
Krasny Kavkaz  Soviet Navy Kraznyi Kavkaz class cruiser 7,560 25 January 1932 Sunk as a target 1956
Krasnyi Krym  Soviet Navy Krasnyi Krym class cruiser 6,800 1 July 1928 Sunk as target in 1959
Kuma  Imperial Japanese Navy Kuma class light cruiser 5,550 31 August 1920 10 March 1944; Sunk by HMS Tally-Ho west of Penang
Kumano  Imperial Japanese Navy Mogami class heavy cruiser 13,440 31 October 1931 sunk 15 November 1944
La Argentina  Argentine Navy training light cruiser 6,500 discarded 1974
La Galissonnière  French Navy La Galissonnière class light cruiser 7,600 1 January 1936 scuttled 27 November 1942
Lamotte-Piquet  French Navy Duguay-Trouin class light cruiser 7,249 5 March 1927 sunk 12 January 1945
Leander  Royal New Zealand Navy Leander class light cruiser 6,985 23 July 1931 (former Leander (UK)) returned to UK 8 May 1944, scrapped 1950
Leipzig  Kriegsmarine Leipzig class light cruiser 6,515 8 October 1931 scuttled 11 July 1946
London  Royal Navy County class heavy cruiser 9,850 31 January 1929 scrapped 1950
Los Angeles  United States Navy Baltimore-class heavy cruiser 17,200 22 July 1945 scrapped 1974
Lothringen  Kriegsmarine minelayer 1,975 December 1941 sold to merchant service post-war
Louisville  United States Navy Northampton class heavy cruiser 9,200 15 January 1931 scrapped 1959
Luigi Di Savoia Duca Degli Abruzzi  Regia Marina Duca degli Abruzzi class light cruiser 9,952 1 December 1937 scrapped 1972
Luigi Cadorna  Regia Marina Cadorna class light cruiser 5,316 11 August 1933 scrapped 1951
Lützow  Kriegsmarine enlarged Admiral Hipper-class heavy cruiser 14,680 not completed sold to USSR 1940 became Petropavlovsk, then Tallinn
Marblehead  United States Navy Omaha class light cruiser 7,050 8 September 1924 scrapped 1946
Marseillaise  French Navy La Galissonniere class light cruiser 7,600 10 October 1937 scuttled 27 November 1942
Mauritius  Royal Navy Fiji class cruiser 8,000 1 January 1941 scrapped 1965
Maxim Gorky  Soviet Navy Maxim Gorkiy (Project 26 bis) class heavy cruiser 8,200 25 October 1940 Decommissioned Feb. 1956
Maya  Imperial Japanese Navy Takao class heavy cruiser 13,350 30 June 1932 Sunk 23 October 1944
Memphis  United States Navy Omaha class light cruiser 7,050 17 December 1925 scrapped 1947
Miami  United States Navy Cleveland class light cruiser 11,800 28 December 1943 scrapped 1962
Michel  Kriegsmarine auxiliary cruiser 10,900 7 September 1941 (former Polish freighter Bielsko) sunk 17 October 1943
Mikuma  Imperial Japanese Navy Mogami class heavy cruiser 13,440 29 August 1935 Sunk 6 June 1942
Milwaukee/Murmansk  USA Soviet Navy Omaha class light cruiser 7,050 20 June 1923; to USSR as Murmansk 20 April 1944 scrapped 10 December 1949
Minneapolis  United States Navy New Orleans class heavy cruiser 9,950 19 May 1934 Decommissioned 10 February 1947, scrapped 1959
Mobile  United States Navy Cleveland class light cruiser 11,800 24 March 1943 scrapped 1960
Mogami  Imperial Japanese Navy Mogami class heavy cruiser 12,400 1935 Sunk 25 October 1944
Molotov  Soviet Navy Maxim Gorkiy (Project 26 bis) class heavy cruiser 8,200 25 October 1940 decommissioned February 1956
Monowai  Royal New Zealand Navy armed merchant cruiser 4,925 30 August 1940 Decommissioned 18 June 1943, then landing ship
Montcalm  French Navy
 Free French Naval Forces		 La Galissonniere class light cruiser 7,600 15 November 1937 Decommissioned 1 May 1957
Montpelier  United States Navy Cleveland class light cruiser 11,800 9 September 1942 scrapped 1960
Montrose  Royal Navy Admiralty leader class 1,530 14 September 1918 scrapped January 1946
Muzio Attendolo  Regia Marina Montecuccoli class light cruiser 3,184 1935 lost 1942
Myōkō  Imperial Japanese Navy Myōkō-class heavy cruiser 13,380 1929 scuttled by Royal Navy 8 June 1946
Nachi  Imperial Japanese Navy Myōkō class heavy cruiser 13,380 sunk 5 November 1944
Nagara  Imperial Japanese Navy Nagara class light cruiser 5,088 lost 7 August 1944
Naka  Imperial Japanese Navy Sendai class light cruiser 7,100 1925 sunk 17 February 1944
Nashville  United States Navy Brooklyn class light cruiser 9,475 6 June 1938 sold to Chile 1951 (Capitan Prat)
Natori  Imperial Japanese Navy Nagara class light cruiser 5,088 lost 18 August 1944
Neptune  Royal Navy Leander class light cruiser 7,000 23 February 1934 lost 19 December 1941
New Orleans  United States Navy New Orleans-class heavy cruiser 9,950 12 April 1933 Decommissioned 10 February 1947, scrapped 1959
Newfoundland  Royal Navy Fiji class light cruiser 8,800 21 January 1943 sold to Peru 1959, renamed Almirante Grau
Nigeria  Royal Navy Fiji class 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 anti-aircraft cruiser 4,100 former Dutch Gelderland sunk Kotka 16 July 1944
Northampton  United States Navy Northampton class heavy cruiser 9,050 17 May 1930 lost 1 December 1942
Noshiro  Imperial Japanese Navy Agano class light cruiser 6,650 Sunk 26 October 1944
Nürnberg  Kriegsmarine light cruiser 6,980 2 November 1935 transferred to Soviet Union as Admiral Makarov, scrapped 1960
Oakland  United States Navy Atlanta-class light cruiser 6,000 17 July 1943 decommissioned 1949, scrapped 1959
Ōi  Imperial Japanese Navy Kuma-class light cruiser 5,100 10 October 1921 sunk by USS Flasher 19 July 1944
Oklahoma City  United States Navy Cleveland-class light cruiser 11,800 22 December 1944 converted to missile cruiser 1960, sunk as target 1999
Omaha  United States Navy Omaha-class light cruiser 7,050 24 February 1923 Scrapped February 1946
Ontario  Royal Canadian Navy Minotaur-class light cruiser 8,800 July 1944 laid up 15 October 1958
Orion  Royal Navy Leander-class light cruiser 7,000 18 January 1934 scrapped 1949
Orion  Kriegsmarine auxiliary cruiser 15,700 9 December 1939 (former freighter Kurmark) sunk 4 May 1945
Ōyodo  Imperial Japanese Navy Ōyodo-class light cruiser 11,433 28 February 1943 sunk 25 July 1945
Pasadena  United States Navy Cleveland class light cruiser 11,800 8 June 1944 scrapped 1970
Patroclus  Royal Navy Armed merchant cruiser 11,314 12 September 1939 sunk 4 November 1940
Pensacola  United States Navy Pensacola-class heavy cruiser 9,100 6 February 1930 sunk as target 1948
Perth  Royal Australian Navy modified Leander class light cruiser 6,980 29 June 1939 (former HMS Amphion) sunk 1 March 1942
Philadelphia  United States Navy Brooklyn class light cruiser 10,200 23 September 1937 transferred to Brazil as Almirante Barroso 1951, scrapped 1973
Phoenix  United States Navy Brooklyn class light cruiser 10,200 3 October 1938 transferred to Argentina as General Belgrano 1951, sunk by HMS Conqueror in Falklands War on 2 May 1982
Ping Hai  China light cruiser 2,200 became Yasoshima (Japan)
Pinguin  Kriegsmarine Auxiliary cruiser 17,600 6 February 1940 sunk 8 May 1941
Pittsburgh  United States Navy Baltimore class 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 class heavy cruiser 11,730 1932 sunk 28 March 1941
Pompeo Magno  Regia Marina Capitani Romani class light cruiser (also known as exploratori oceanici) 3,750
Portland  United States Navy Portland class heavy cruiser 9,950 23 February 1933 decommissioned 1946, scrapped 1959
Portsmouth  United States Navy Cleveland class light cruiser 11,800 20 September 1944 scrapped 1974
Pretoria Castle  Royal Navy Armed merchant cruiser, converted to escort aircraft carrier 23,450 28 November 1939 26 January 1946, reconverted to passenger liner & renamed Warwick Castle
Primauguet  French Navy Duguay-Trouin-class light cruiser 7,249 1 April 1927 scuttled 8 November 1942
Prince David  Royal Canadian Navy Armed Merchant Cruiser 5,736 28 December 1940 Broken up 1951
Prince Henry  Royal Canadian Navy Armed Merchant Cruiser 6,893 3 November 1940 paid off July 1946
Prince Robert  Royal Canadian Navy Armed Merchant Cruiser 6,892 December 1940 paid off 10 December 1945
Prinz Eugen  Kriegsmarine enlarged Admiral Hipper-class heavy cruiser 14,680 1 August 1940 sunk after A-bomb test at Bikini in 1946
Providence  United States Navy Cleveland class light cruiser 11,800 15 May 1945 converted to missile cruiser 1959, scrapped 1980
Quincy (CA-39)  United States Navy New Orleans-class heavy cruiser 9,375 9 June 1936 sunk 9 August 1942
Quincy (CA-71)  United States Navy Baltimore-class heavy cruiser 13,600 December 1943 decommissioned 1954 and scrapped in 1974
Raimondo Montecuccoli  Regia Marina Montecuccoli class light cruiser 3,184 1935 decommissioned 1964
Rajputana  Royal Navy Armed merchant cruiser 16,568 December 1939 sunk 13 April 1941
Raleigh  United States Navy Omaha class light cruiser 7,050 6 February 1924 scrapped 1946
Ralph Talbot  United States Navy Bagley class destroyer 1,500 14 October 1937 scuttled after A-bomb test, 1948
Ramb I  Regia Marina Armed merchant cruiser 3,667 10 June 1940 sunk 27 February 1941
Ramb II  Regia Marina Armed merchant cruiser 3,667 10 June 1940 Taken over by the Japanese and renamed "Calitea II" - sunk on 12 January 1945 by US
Ramb III  Regia Marina Armed merchant cruiser 3,667 10 June 1940 Taken over by the Germans 9 September 1943, then in post-war service with the Yugoslav Navy
Reno  United States Navy Atlanta class light cruiser 6,000 28 December 1943 decommissioned 1946, scrapped 1962
Richmond  United States Navy Omaha class light cruiser 7,050 2 July 1923 scrapped 1946
Rio Grande do Sul  Royal Navy Bahia class light cruiser 3,100 1910 scrapped 1948
Sakawa  Imperial Japanese Navy Agano class light cruiser 6,650 30 November 1944 sunk as target 2 July 1946
Salt Lake City  United States Navy Pensacola class heavy cruiser 9,100 11 December 1929 sunk as target 1948
San Diego  United States Navy Atlanta class light cruiser 6,000 10 January 1942 decommissioned 1946, scrapped 1960
San Francisco  United States Navy New Orleans class heavy cruiser 9,950 10 February 1934 Decommissioned 10 February 1946, scrapped 1959
San Giorgio  Regia Marina San Giorgio class heavy cruiser 10,167 1 July 1910 decommissioned 22 January 1941
San Juan  United States Navy Atlanta class light cruiser 6,000 28 February 1942 decommissioned 1946, scrapped 1961
Santa Fe  United States Navy Cleveland class light cruiser 11,800 24 November 1942 scrapped 1959
Savannah  United States Navy Brooklyn-class light cruiser 9,475 10 March 1938 scrapped 1966
Scipione Africano  Regia Marina Capitani Romani class light cruiser (also known as exploratori oceanici) 3,750
Sendai  Imperial Japanese Navy Sendai class light cruiser 5,195 29 April 1924 sunk 2 November 1943
Seydlitz  Kriegsmarine Enlarged Admiral Hipper-class heavy cruiser 14,680 not completed became Weser (Germany)
Southampton  Royal Navy Southampton class light cruiser 9,100 6 March 1937 bombed and scuttled 11 January 1941
USS Springfield (CL-66)  United States Navy Cleveland class 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 class light cruiser 10,000 19 May 1939 to Brazil as Tamandare 1951, sunk under tow 1980
USS Saint Paul (CA-73)  United States Navy Baltimore class heavy cruiser 17,200 17 February 1945 decommissioned 1971, scrapped 1980
Stier  Kriegsmarine Auxiliary cruiser 11,000 25 November 1939 (former freighter Cairo) sunk 27 September 1942
Suffren  French Navy
 Free French Naval Forces		 Suffren class heavy cruiser 9,940 1 January 1930 scrapped 1974
Sumatra  Netherlands Java class cruiser 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 class heavy cruiser 15,900 October 1937 sunk 25 October 1944
Sydney  Royal Australian Navy modified Leander class light cruiser 6,980 24 September 1935 lost 19 November 1941
Takao  Imperial Japanese Navy Takao-class heavy cruiser 13,160 31 May 1932 Sunk 31 July 1945
Tama  Imperial Japanese Navy Cruiser 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-class light cruiser 4,350 31 May 1919 Sunk 13 March 1944
Tenryū  Imperial Japanese Navy Tenryū-class light cruiser 4,350 20 November 1919 Sunk 18 December 1942
Thor  Kriegsmarine Auxiliary cruiser 9,200 15 March 1940 accidentally burnt 30 November 1942
Tokiwa  Imperial Japanese Navy Asama-class armored cruiser 9,700 18 May 1899 Sunk 9 August 1945
Tone  Imperial Japanese Navy Tone class heavy cruiser 15,200 30 November 1938 Sunk 14 July 1945
Tonkinois  Free French Naval Forces River class frigate 1,370 15 October 1944 (former HMS Moyola) Decommissioned 1961
Topeka  United States Navy Cleveland class light cruiser 11,800 23 December 1944 converted to missile cruiser 1960, scrapped 1975
Tourville  French Navy
 Free French Naval Forces		 Duquesne class heavy cruiser 10,000 1 December 1928 condemned 1962
Transylvania  Royal Navy Armed merchant cruiser 16,923 5 October 1939 Torpedoed and sunk by U-56,
10 August 1940
Trento  Regia Marina Trento class heavy cruiser 10,511 1929 sunk 14 June 1942
Trenton  United States Navy Omaha class light cruiser 7,050 19 April 1924 scrapped 1946
Trieste  Regia Marina Trento class heavy cruiser 10,511 1928 sunk 1943
Trinidad  Royal Navy Fiji class cruiser 8,000 14 October 1941 sunk 15 May 1942
Tromp  Netherlands Tromp class cruiser 4,000 18 August 1938 decommissioned 1955
Tucson  United States Navy Atlanta class light cruiser 6,000 3 February 1945 scrapped 1971
Tuscaloosa  United States Navy New Orleans class heavy cruiser 9,950 17 August 1934 Decommissioned 13 February 1946, scrapped 1959
Uganda  Royal Navy
 Royal Canadian Navy		 Crown Colony-class (Ceylon Group) light cruiser 8,800 21 October 1944 transferred to RCN as HMCS Uganda 21 October 1944, renamed HMCS Quebec 14 January 1952, scrapped 1961
Veinticinco de Mayo  Argentine Navy Veinticinco de Mayo-class cruiser 6,800 18 July 1931 scrapped 1962
Venerable  Royal Navy Colossus-class aircraft carrier 13,200 17 January 1945 sold to Netherlands 1 April 1948, renamed Karel Doorman
Vengeance  Royal Navy Colossus-class aircraft carrier 13,200 15 January 1945 loaned to Australia 13 November 1952, sold to Brazil 12 December 1956, renamed Minas Gerais
Vicksburg  United States Navy Cleveland-class light cruiser 11,800 12 June 1944 scrapped 1964
Victorious  Royal Navy Illustrious-class aircraft carrier 23,000 29 May 1941 scrapped 1969
Vincennes (CA-44)  United States Navy New Orleans-class heavy cruiser 9,400 24 February 1937 sunk 9 August 1942
Vincennes (CL-64)  United States Navy Cleveland-class light cruiser 11,800 21 January 1944 sunk as target 1966
Voroshilov  Soviet Navy Kirov-class heavy cruiser 7,880 20 June 1940 scrapped 1960s
Wichita  United States Navy Wichita class heavy cruiser 10,000 16 February 1939 decommissioned 1947, scrapped 1959
Widder  Kriegsmarine Auxiliary cruiser 16,800 30 November 1939 became repair ship Neumark 1941
Wilkes-Barre  United States Navy Cleveland class light cruiser 11,800 1 July 1944 sunk as target 1972
Yahagi  Imperial Japanese Navy Agano-class light cruiser 6,650 29 December 1943 sunk 7 April 1945
Yakumo  Imperial Japanese Navy armored cruiser 9,646 20 June 1900 scrapped 1 April 1947
Ying Swei  China Chao Ho-class cruiser 2,460 ca.1911 Sunk 25 October 1937
Yubari  Imperial Japanese Navy light cruiser 2,890 1923 sunk 27 April 1944
Yura  Imperial Japanese Navy Nagara-class light cruiser 5,088 1922 lost 25 October 1942
Zara  Regia Marina Zara-class heavy cruiser 11,500 20 October 1931 sunk 29 March 1941

References

  1. ↑ Friedman, Norman "Anti-Aircraft Cruisers: The Life of a Class" United States Naval Institute Proceedings January 1965 p. 86
  2. ↑ Friedman, Norman "Anti-Aircraft Cruisers: The Life of a Class" United States Naval Institute Proceedings January 1965 pp.96-97
  3. ↑ Hackett, Bob; Kingsepp, Sander. "HIJMS ABUKUMA: Tabular Record of Movement". combinedfleet.com. Retrieved 19 October 2012.
  4. ↑ "WWII battleship 'sunk by blunder'". BBC News (British Broadcasting Corporation). 18 February 1999. Retrieved 9 May 2010.

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