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 or organization | Class | Type | Displacement (tons) | First commissioned | Fate |
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Kazarskii | torpedo cruiser | 535 | 1897[3] | Rated as a destroyer by WWII. scrapped 1948[4] | |
Abukuma | ![]() |
Nagara | light cruiser | 5,088 | 6 May 1925 | Sunk 26 October 1944[5] |
Achilles | ![]() |
Leander | light cruiser | 6,985 | 10 October 1933 | sold to India 5 July 1948 as Delhi, scrapped 1978 |
Adelaide | ![]() |
Birmingham | light cruiser | 5,560 | 5 August 1922 | scrapped 1949 |
Admiral Graf Spee | ![]() |
Deutschland | heavy cruiser | 14,650 | 6 January 1936 | scuttled 17 December 1939 |
Admiral Hipper | Admiral Hipper | heavy cruiser | 15,910 | 25 April 1939 | Scuttled 2 May 1945 | |
Admiral Scheer | Deutschland | heavy cruiser | 13,440 | 12 November 1934 | sunk 9 April 1945 | |
Agano | ![]() |
Agano | light cruiser | 6,547 | 31 October 1942 | sunk 17 February 1944 |
Ajax | ![]() |
Leander | light cruiser | 7,220 | 3 June 1935 | Scrapped 1949 |
Alaska | ![]() |
Alaska | large cruiser | 29,779 | 17 June 1944 | scrapped 1960 |
Alberico da Barbiano | ![]() |
Condottieri (Alberto da Giussano) | light cruiser | 6,467 | 9 June 1931 | sunk 13 December 1941 |
Alberto da Giussano | light cruiser | 6,467 | 5 February 1931 | sunk 13 December 1941 | ||
Algérie | ![]() |
heavy cruiser | 10,000 | 15 June 1934 | scuttled 27 November 1942, scrapped 1951 | |
Almirante Brown | ![]() |
Veinticinco de Mayo | heavy cruiser | 6,800 | 18 July 1931 | scrapped 1962 |
Almirante Cervera | ![]() |
Almirante Cervera | light cruiser | 7,475 | May 1927 | stricken 1966 |
Almirante Grau | ![]() |
Almirante Grau | scout cruiser | 3,100 | 1907 | stricken 1958 |
Amsterdam | ![]() |
Cleveland | light cruiser | 11,744 | 8 January 1945 | sold for scrap 11 February 1972 |
Aoba | ![]() |
Aoba | heavy cruiser | 8,300 | 20 September 1927 | sunk 28 July 1945, raised and scrapped 1946-1947 |
Arcona | ![]() |
Gazelle | anti-aircraft cruiser | 2,663 | 12 May 1903 | scuttled 3 May 1945, scrapped 1948 |
Arethusa | ![]() |
Arethusa | light cruiser | 5,220 | 23 May 1935 | scrapped 1950 |
Argonaut | Dido | light cruiser | 5,600 | 8 August 1942 | scrapped 1955 | |
Armando Diaz | ![]() |
Condottieri (Cadorna) | light cruiser | 5,321 | 29 April 1933 | sunk 25 February 1941 |
Asama | ![]() |
Asama | armoured cruiser | 9,560 | 18 March 1899 | scrapped 1947 |
Ashigara | Myōkō | heavy cruiser | 13,300 | 20 August 1929 | Sunk 8 June 1945 | |
Astoria (CA-34) | ![]() |
New Orleans | heavy cruiser | 9,950 | 28 April 1934 | sunk 9 August 1942 Battle of Savo Island |
Astoria (CL-90) | Cleveland | light cruiser | 11,744 | 17 May 1944 | sold for scrap 12 January 1971 | |
Atago | ![]() |
Takao | heavy cruiser | 14,616 | 30 March 1932 | sunk 23 October 1944 |
Atlanta (CL-51) | ![]() |
Atlanta | light cruiser | 6,718 | 24 December 1941 | sunk 13 November 1942 |
Atlanta (CL-104) | Cleveland | light cruiser | 11,744 | 3 December 1944 | sunk as target 1 October 1970 | |
Attilio Regolo | ![]() |
Capitani Romani | flotilla leader | 3,750 | 15 May 1942 | ceded to France as Châteaurenault 1948, scrapped 1979 |
Augusta | ![]() |
Northampton | heavy cruiser | 9,200 | 30 January 1931 | Scrapped 1960 |
Aurora | ![]() |
Pallada | protected cruiser | 6,731 | 29 July 1903 | In 1957 became a museum ship. |
Aurora | ![]() |
Arethusa | light cruiser | 5,270 | 12 November 1937 | to Republic of China as Chung King 19 May 1948, defected to Communist China 25 February 1949 |
Australia | ![]() |
County (Kent) | heavy cruiser | 9,850 | 24 April 1928 | sold for scrap 25 January 1955 |
Azuma | ![]() |
armoured cruiser | 9,131 | 28 July 1900 | struck 1941, scrapped 1946 | |
Bahia | ![]() |
Bahia | scout cruiser | 3,050 | 21 May 1910 | lost 4 July 1945 |
Baltimore | ![]() |
Baltimore | heavy cruiser | 13,600 | 15 April 1943 | decommissioned 1956, scrapped 1972 |
Bari | ![]() |
Pillau | light cruiser | 3,284 | 14 December 1914 | sunk 28 June 1943 |
Bartolomeo Colleoni | Condottieri (Alberto da Giussano) | light cruiser | 6,467 | 10 February 1932 | sunk 19 July 1940 | |
Belfast | ![]() |
Town (Edinburgh) | light cruiser | 10,635 | 5 August 1939 | museum ship since 21 October 1971 |
Bellona | Dido (Bellona) | light cruiser | 5,950 | 29 October 1943 | scrapped 1959 | |
Berk-i Satvet | ![]() |
Peyk-i Şevket | torpedo cruiser | 775 | November 1907 | Scrapped 1953 |
Bermuda | ![]() |
Crown Colony (Fiji) | light cruiser | 8,530 | 21 August 1942 | scrapped 1965 |
Berwick | County (Kent) | heavy cruiser | 9,850 | 12 July 1927 | scrapped 1948 | |
Biloxi | ![]() |
Cleveland | light cruiser | 11,744 | 31 August 1943 | sold for scrap 5 March 1962 |
Birmingham | ![]() |
Town (Southampton) | light cruiser | 9,770 | 18 November 1937 | scrapped 1960 |
Birmingham | ![]() |
Cleveland | light cruiser | 11,744 | 29 January 1943 | sold for scrap 12 November 1959 |
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Bistrița | coastguard cruiser | 100 | 1888 | Used as river gunboat after the war, scrapped 1950's | |
Black Prince | ![]() |
Dido (Bellona) | light cruiser | 5,950 | 30 November 1943 | scrapped 1962 |
Blanco Encalada | ![]() |
protected cruiser | 3,435 | 1895 | struck 19 December 1945 | |
Blücher | ![]() |
Admiral Hipper | heavy cruiser | 15,910 | 20 September 1939 | sunk 9 April 1940 |
Boise | ![]() |
Brooklyn | light cruiser | 9,767 | 12 August 1938 | to Argentina as ARA Nueve de Julio January 1951, scrapped 1983 |
Bonaventure | ![]() |
Dido | light cruiser | 5,600 | 24 May 1940 | sunk 31 March 1941 |
Boston | ![]() |
Baltimore | heavy cruiser | 13,600 | 30 June 1943 | converted to missile cruiser 1955, decommissioned 1970, scrapped 1975 |
Bremerton | heavy cruiser | 13,600 | 29 April 1945 | decommissioned 29 July 1960, scrapped 1974 | ||
Brooklyn | Brooklyn | light cruiser | 9,767 | 30 September 1937 | to Chile as O'Higgins January 1951, sunk under tow 1992 | |
Caio Mario | ![]() |
Capitani Romani | flotilla leader | 3,750 | Never commissioned | launched 17 August 1941, captured by Germany and converted as floating oil tank, scuttled 1944 |
Cairo | ![]() |
C (Carlisle) | light cruiser | 4,200 | 24 September 1919 | lost 12 August 1942 |
Calcutta | C (Carlisle) | light cruiser | 4,200 | 21 August 1919 | lost 1 June 1941 | |
Caledon | C (Caledon) | light cruiser | 4,180 | 6 March 1917 | scrapped 1948 | |
Calypso | C (Caledon) | light cruiser | 4,180 | 6 March 1917 | scrapped January 1948 | |
Canarias | ![]() |
Canarias | heavy cruiser | 10,670 | September 1936 | scrapped 1977 |
Canberra | ![]() |
County (Kent) | heavy cruiser | 9,850 | 10 July 1928 | scuttled 9 August 1942 |
Canberra | ![]() |
Baltimore | heavy cruiser | 13,600 | 14 October 1943 | converted to missile cruiser 1956, decommissioned 1970, scrapped 1980 |
Capetown | ![]() |
C (Carlisle) | light cruiser | 4,200 | 10 April 1922 | Scrapped June 1946 |
Caradoc | C (Caledon) | light cruiser | 4,180 | 15 June 1917 | scrapped 1946 | |
Cardiff | C (Ceres) | light cruiser | 4,290 | 25 June 1917 | scrapped 1946 | |
Carlisle | C (Carlisle) | light cruiser | 4,200 | 11 November 1918 | constructive total loss 9 October 1942, scrapped 1948 | |
Caroline | C (Caroline) | light cruiser | 4,200 | 4 December 1914 | used as floating establishment 1924-2009, decommissioned 2011, preserved as museum ship | |
Ceres | C (Ceres) | light cruiser | 4,290 | 1 June 1917 | scrapped 1946 | |
Ceylon | Crown Colony (Ceylon) | light cruiser | 8,530 | 13 July 1943 | to Peru as BAP Coronel Bolognesi 1960, scrapped 1985 | |
Chacabuco | ![]() |
protected cruiser | 4,500 | 1902 | discarded 1952 | |
Chao Ho | ![]() |
Chao Ho | protected cruiser | 2,707 | 21 February 1912 | sunk 28 September 1937 |
Charybdis | ![]() |
Dido | light cruiser | 5,600 | 3 December 1941 | sunk 23 October 1943 |
Chervona Ukraina | ![]() |
Admiral Nakhimov | light cruiser | 7,480 | 21 March 1927 | sunk 12 November 1941, raised 3 November 1947, used as target 1950-1980 |
Chester | ![]() |
Northampton | heavy cruiser | 9,200 | 24 June 1930 | scrapped 1959 |
Chicago (CA-29) | Northampton | heavy cruiser | 9,200 | 9 March 1931 | sunk 30 January 1943 | |
Chicago (CA-136) | Baltimore | heavy cruiser | 13,600 | 10 January 1945 | converted to missile cruiser 1964, decommissioned 1980, scrapped 1992 | |
Chikuma | ![]() |
Tone | heavy cruiser | 15,200 | 30 May 1939 | sunk 25 October 1944 |
Chōkai | Takao | heavy cruiser | 15,781 | 30 June 1932 | sunk 25 October 1944 | |
Cincinnati | ![]() |
Omaha | light cruiser | 7,050 | 1 January 1924 | scrapped 1946 |
Clas Fleming | ![]() |
minelayer-cruiser | 1,550 | February 1914 | Scrapped 1960 | |
Claudio Druso | ![]() |
Capitani Romani | flotilla leader | 3,750 | Never commissioned | laid down 27 September 1939, construction stopped June 1940, scrapped 1941-1942 |
Claudio Tiberio | flotilla leader | 3,750 | Never commissioned | laid down 28 September 1939, construction stopped June 1940, scrapped 1941-1942 | ||
Cleopatra | ![]() |
Dido | light cruiser | 5,600 | 5 December 1941 | scrapped 1958 |
Cleveland | ![]() |
Cleveland | light cruiser | 11,744 | 15 June 1942 | sold for scrap 18 February 1960 |
Colbert | ![]() |
Suffren | heavy cruiser | 10,000 | 4 March 1931 | scuttled 27 November 1942 |
Colombo | ![]() |
C (Carlisle) | light cruiser | 4,200 | 18 June 1919 | scrapped 1948 |
Columbia | ![]() |
Cleveland | light cruiser | 11,744 | 29 July 1942 | sold for scrap 18 February 1959 |
Columbus | Baltimore | heavy cruiser | 13,600 | 8 June 1945 | converted to missile cruiser 1962, decommissioned 1975, scrapped 1977 | |
Concord | Omaha | light cruiser | 7,050 | 3 November 1923 | scrapped 1947 | |
Cornelio Silla | ![]() |
Capitani Romani | flotilla leader | 3,750 | Never commissioned | launched 28 June 1941, captured by Germany and never completed, sunk July 1944 |
Cornwall | ![]() |
County (Kent) | heavy cruiser | 9,850 | 8 May 1928 | sunk 5 April 1942 |
Coronel Bolognesi | ![]() |
Almirante Grau | scout cruiser | 3,100 | 1907 | stricken 1958 |
Coventry | ![]() |
C (Ceres) | light cruiser | 4,290 | 21 February 1918 | lost 14 September 1942 |
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light cruiser | 2,023 | 1911 | stricken 1971[6] | ||
Cumberland | ![]() |
County (Kent) | heavy cruiser | 9,850 | 23 February 1928 | scrapped 1959 |
Curacoa | C (Ceres) | light cruiser | 4,290 | 18 February 1918 | lost 2 October 1942 | |
Curlew | C (Ceres) | light cruiser | 4,290 | 14 December 1917 | lost 26 May 1940 | |
Dalmacija | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Gazelle | light cruiser | 2,963 | 25 June 1900 | captured by Italy as Cattaro 25 April 1941, captured by Germany as Niobe September 1943, ran aground and destroyed December 1943, scrapped 1952 |
Danae | ![]() ![]() |
Danae | light cruiser | 4,850 | 22 July 1918 | to Poland as ORP Conrad 4 October 1944, scrapped March 1948 |
Dauntless | ![]() |
light cruiser | 4,850 | 22 November 1918 | scrapped 1946 | |
Dayton | ![]() |
Cleveland | light cruiser | 11,744 | 7 January 1945 | sold for scrap 6 April 1962 |
De Ruyter | ![]() |
light cruiser | 6,442 | 3 October 1936 | sunk 28 February 1942 | |
Delhi | ![]() |
Danae | light cruiser | 4,850 | 7 June 1919 | scrapped 1948 |
Denver | ![]() |
Cleveland | light cruiser | 11,744 | 15 October 1942 | sold for scrap 4 February 1960 |
Despatch | ![]() |
Danae | light cruiser | 4,850 | 2 June 1922 | scrapped 1946 |
Detroit | ![]() |
Omaha | light cruiser | 7,050 | 31 July 1923 | scrapped 1946 |
Deutschland | ![]() |
Deutschland | heavy cruiser | 12,430 | 1 April 1933 | renamed Lützow January 1940, sunk as target 22 July 1947 |
Devonshire | ![]() |
County (London) | heavy cruiser | 9,850 | 18 March 1929 | scrapped 12 December 1954 |
Diadem | Dido (Bellona) | light cruiser | 5,950 | 6 January 1944 | to Pakistan as Babur February 1956, scrapped 1985 | |
Dido | Dido | light cruiser | 5,600 | 30 September 1940 | scrapped 1957 | |
Diomede | Danae | light cruiser | 4,850 | 22 October 1922 | scrapped 1946 | |
Dorsetshire | County (Norfolk) | heavy cruiser | 10,035 | 30 September 1930 | sunk 5 April 1942 | |
Dragon | ![]() ![]() |
Danae | light cruiser | 4,850 | 16 August 1918 | to Poland 15 January 1943, scuttled 20 July 1944 as Gooseberry breakwater blockship |
Duguay-Trouin | ![]() ![]() |
Duguay-Trouin | light cruiser | 7,249 | 2 November 1926 | decommissioned 29 March 1952 |
Duluth | ![]() |
Cleveland | light cruiser | 11,744 | 18 September 1944 | sold for scrap 14 November 1960 |
Dunedin | ![]() |
Danae | light cruiser | 4,850 | 13 September 1919 | sunk 24 November 1941 |
Dupleix | ![]() |
Suffren | heavy cruiser | 10,000 | 7 July 1932 | scuttled 27 November 1942 |
Duquesne | ![]() ![]() |
Duquesne | heavy cruiser | 10,000 | 6 December 1928 | sold for scrap 27 July 1956 |
Durban | ![]() |
Danae | light cruiser | 4,850 | 1 November 1921 | scuttled 9 June 1944 as Gooseberry breakwater blockship |
Edinburgh | Town (Edinburgh) | light cruiser | 10,635 | 6 July 1939 | sunk 2 May 1942 | |
Effingham | Hawkins | heavy cruiser | 9,860 | 2 July 1925 | wrecked 18 May 1940 | |
Elli | ![]() |
Chao Ho | protected cruiser | 2,115 | November 1913 | sunk 15 August 1940 |
Emanuele Filiberto Duca d'Aosta | ![]() |
Condottieri (Duca d'Aosta) | light cruiser | 8,317 | 13 July 1935 | ceded to USSR as Z15 2 March 1949, renamed Stalingrad, later Kerch, scrapped 1960s |
Emden | ![]() |
light cruiser | 5,300 | 15 October 1925 | scuttled 3 May 1945, scrapped 1949 | |
Emerald | ![]() |
Emerald | light cruiser | 7,580 | 14 January 1926 | scrapped July 1948 |
Émile Bertin | ![]() ![]() |
light cruiser | 5,886 | 28 January 1935 | scrapped October 1959 | |
Enterprise | ![]() |
Emerald | light cruiser | 7,580 | 7 April 1926 | scrapped April 1946 |
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Etna | light cruiser | 5,900 | Never commissioned | originally ordered by Royal Thai Navy in 1938 as Taksin, requisitioned by Italy in 1941, never completed | |
Eugenio di Savoia | Condottieri (Duca d'Aosta) | light cruiser | 8,317 | 16 January 1936 | ceded to Greece as Elli 1950, scrapped 1973 | |
Euryalus | ![]() |
Dido | light cruiser | 5,600 | 30 June 1941 | scrapped 1959 |
Exeter | York | heavy cruiser | 8,390 | 23 July 1931 | sunk 1 March 1942 | |
Fall River | ![]() |
Baltimore | heavy cruiser | 13,600 | 1 July 1945 | decommissioned 1947, scrapped 1972 |
Fiji | ![]() |
Crown Colony (Fiji) | light cruiser | 8,530 | 5 May 1940 | sunk 22 May 1941 |
Fiume | ![]() |
Zara | heavy cruiser | 11,500 | 1931 | sunk 29 March 1941 |
Flint | ![]() |
Atlanta (Oakland) | light cruiser | 6,718 | 31 August 1944 | decommissioned 1947, scrapped 1966 |
Foch | ![]() |
Suffren | heavy cruiser | 10,000 | 15 August 1931 | scuttled 27 November 1942 |
Frobisher | ![]() |
Hawkins | heavy cruiser | 9,860 | 20 September 1924 | scrapped 26 March 1949 |
Furutaka | ![]() |
Furutaka | heavy cruiser | 7,100 | 31 March 1926 | sunk 20 December 1942 |
Fylgia | ![]() |
armoured cruiser | 4,300 | 21 June 1907 | sold for scrap 1957 | |
Galatea | ![]() |
Arethusa | light cruiser | 5,220 | 14 August 1935 | sunk 14 December 1941 |
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Almirante Cervera | light cruiser | 7,475 | 30 August 1925 | stricken February 1970 | |
Gambia | ![]() ![]() |
Crown Colony (Fiji) | light cruiser | 8,530 | 21 February 1942 | scrapped 1968 |
General Belgrano | ![]() |
Giuseppe Garibaldi | armoured cruiser | 6,100 | 8 October 1898 | struck 8 May 1947, sold for scrap 1953 |
George Leygues | ![]() ![]() |
La Galissonnière | light cruiser | 7,600 | 15 November 1937 | scrapped 1959 |
Georgios Averof | ![]() |
Pisa | armoured cruiser | 9,450 | 16 May 1911 | Decommissioned 1951, museum ship |
Giovanni delle Bande Nere | ![]() |
Condottieri (Alberto da Giussano) | light cruiser | 6,467 | 27 April 1931 | sunk 1 April 1942 |
Giulio Germanico | Capitani Romani | flotilla leader | 3,750 | Commissioned Post-war | launched 26 July 1941, scuttled by Germany 28 September 1943, raised and completed by Italian Navy as San Marco 19 January 1956, decommissioned 1971 | |
Giuseppe Garibaldi | Condottieri (Duca degli Abruzzi) | light cruiser | 11,170 | 20 December 1937 | converted to missile cruiser 1961, scrapped 1972 | |
Glasgow | ![]() |
Town (Southampton) | light cruiser | 9,100 | 9 September 1937 | paid off November 1956 |
Gloire | ![]() ![]() |
La Galissonnière | light cruiser | 7,600 | 15 November 1937 | scrapped 1958 |
Gloucester | ![]() |
Town (Gloucester) | light cruiser | 9,400 | 31 January 1939 | sunk 22 May 1941 |
Gorizia | ![]() |
Zara | heavy cruiser | 11,900 | 31 December 1931 | sunk 1943 |
Gotland | ![]() |
seaplane cruiser | 4,750 | 14 December 1934 | Scrapped 1963 | |
Guam | ![]() |
Alaska | large cruiser | 29,779 | 17 September 1944 | scrapped 1961 |
Haguro | ![]() |
Myoko | heavy cruiser | 13,300 | 25 April 1929 | sunk 16 May 1945 |
Hai Chi | ![]() |
Hai Chi | protected cruiser | 4,232 | 10 May 1899 | scuttled 11 August 1937 |
Hawaii | ![]() |
Alaska | large cruiser | 29,779 | Never commissioned | launched 3 November 1945, construction stopped at 82.4% completion, scrapped 1959 |
Hawkins | ![]() |
Hawkins | heavy cruiser | 9,860 | 25 July 1919 | scrapped 21 August 1947 |
Helena (CL-50) | ![]() |
Brooklyn (St. Louis) | light cruiser | 10,000 | 18 September 1939 | sunk 6 July 1943 |
Helena (CA-75) | Baltimore | heavy cruiser | 13,600 | 4 September 1945 | decommissioned 1963, scrapped 1975 | |
[7] | ![]() |
light cruiser | 1,301 | 1891 | stricken 1954 | |
Hermione | ![]() |
Dido | light cruiser | 5,600 | 25 March 1941 | sunk 16 June 1942 |
Hobart | ![]() |
Leander (Amphion) | light cruiser | 6,980 | 28 September 1938 | scrapped 1962 |
Honolulu | ![]() |
Brooklyn | light cruiser | 9,767 | 15 June 1938 | decommissioned 1947, scrapped 1959 |
Houston (CA-30) | Northampton | heavy cruiser | 9,200 | 17 June 1930 | sunk 1 March 1942 | |
Houston (CL-81) | Cleveland | light cruiser | 11,744 | 20 December 1943 | sold for scrap 1 June 1961 | |
Indianapolis | Portland | heavy cruiser | 9,800 | 15 November 1932 | sunk 30 July 1945 | |
Ioshima | ![]() |
Ioshima | light cruiser | 2,200 | 10 June 1944 | sunk 23 September 1937 as Ning Hai, raised by Japan in 1938, reclassified as Kaibōkan in 1944, sunk by USS Shad on 19 September 1944 |
Isuzu | Nagara | light cruiser | 5,088 | 15 August 1923 | sunk 7 April 1945 | |
Iwate | Izumo | armoured cruiser | 9,274 | 18 March 1901 | sunk 25 July 1945, scrapped 1946-1947 | |
Izumo | armoured cruiser | 9,353 | 25 September 1900 | sunk 28 July 1945, scrapped 1947 | ||
Jacob van Heemskerk | ![]() |
Tromp | flotilla leader | 4,064 | 16 September 1939 | decommissioned 1969 |
Jamaica | ![]() |
Crown Colony (Fiji) | light cruiser | 8,530 | 29 June 1942 | scrapped 1960 |
Java | ![]() |
Java | light cruiser | 6,670 | 1 May 1925 | sunk 27 February 1942 |
Jean de Vienne | ![]() |
La Galissonnière | light cruiser | 7,600 | 10 February 1937 | scuttled 27 November 1942 |
Jeanne d'Arc | ![]() ![]() |
training cruiser | 6,496 | 14 August 1931 | scrapped 1965 | |
Jintsu | ![]() |
Sendai | light cruiser | 7,100 | 31 July 1925 | sunk 13 July 1943 |
Juneau | ![]() |
Atlanta | light cruiser | 6,718 | 14 February 1942 | sunk 13 November 1942 |
Kaganovich | ![]() |
Kirov (Project 26bis2) | light cruiser | 8,267 | 6 December 1944 | renamed as Lazar Kaganovich 3 August 1945, later as Petropavlovsk 3 August 1957, scrapped 1960s |
Kako | ![]() |
Furutaka | heavy cruiser | 7,100 | 31 July 1926 | sunk 10 August 1942 |
Kalinin | ![]() |
Kirov (Project 26bis2) | light cruiser | 8,267 | 31 December 1942 | struck 12 April 1963 |
Karlsruhe | ![]() |
Königsberg | light cruiser | 7,700 | 6 November 1929 | sunk 9 April 1940 |
Kashii | ![]() |
Katori | light cruiser | 5,890 | 15 July 1941 | sunk 12 January 1945 |
Kashima | light cruiser | 5,890 | 31 May 1940 | struck 5 October 1945, scrapped 1947 | ||
Kasuga | Giuseppe Garibaldi | armoured cruiser | 7,578 | 7 January 1904 | sunk 18 July 1945, salvaged and scrapped 1948 | |
Katori | Katori | light cruiser | 5,890 | 20 April 1940 | sunk 18 February 1944 | |
Kent | ![]() |
County (Kent) | heavy cruiser | 9,850 | 25 June 1928 | scrapped 1948 |
Kenya | Crown Colony (Fiji) | light cruiser | 8,530 | 27 September 1940 | scrapped 1962 | |
Kinu | ![]() |
Nagara | light cruiser | 5,088 | 10 November 1922 | sunk by USN aircraft, Sibuyan Sea 26 October 1944 |
Kinugasa | Aoba | heavy cruiser | 8,300 | 30 September 1927 | sunk 14 November 1942 | |
Kirov | ![]() |
Kirov (Project 26) | light cruiser | 7,765 | 23 September 1938 | sold for scrap 22 February 1974 |
Kiso | ![]() |
Kuma | light cruiser | 5,100 | 4 May 1921 | sunk 13 November 1944 |
Kitakami | light cruiser | 5,100 | 15 April 1921 | struck 30 November 1945, scrapped 1946-1947 | ||
Köln | ![]() |
Königsberg | light cruiser | 7,700 | 15 January 1930 | sunk 3 March 1945 |
Königsberg | light cruiser | 7,700 | 17 April 1929 | sunk 10 April 1940 | ||
Komintern | ![]() |
Bogatyr | light cruiser | 6,340 | July 1905 | sunk as breakwater 10 October 1942 |
Krasny Kavkaz | Admiral Nakhimov | light cruiser | 7,441 | 25 January 1932 | sunk as a target 1950s | |
Krasny Krym | Svetlana | light cruiser | 6,731 | 1 July 1928 | scrapped 1959 | |
Kuma | ![]() |
Kuma | light cruiser | 5,100 | 31 August 1920 | sunk 11 January 1944 |
Kumano | Mogami | heavy cruiser | 13,440 | 31 October 1931 | sunk 15 November 1944 | |
La Argentina | ![]() |
light cruiser | 6,500 | 12 April 1939 | discarded 1974 | |
La Galissonnière | ![]() |
La Galissonnière | light cruiser | 7,600 | 1 January 1936 | scuttled 27 November 1942 |
Lamotte-Picquet | Duguay-Trouin | light cruiser | 7,249 | 5 March 1927 | sunk 12 January 1945 | |
Leander | ![]() |
Leander | light cruiser | 6,985 | 24 March 1933 | returned to UK 8 May 1944, scrapped 1950 |
Leipzig | ![]() |
Leipzig | light cruiser | 8,000 | 8 October 1931 | scuttled 11 July 1946 |
Little Rock | ![]() |
Cleveland | light cruiser | 11,744 | 17 June 1945 | converted to missile cruiser 1960, preserved as museum ship since 1 June 1977 |
Liverpool | ![]() |
Town (Gloucester) | light cruiser | 9,400 | 2 November 1938 | paid off 1952 |
London | County (London) | heavy cruiser | 9,850 | 31 January 1929 | scrapped 22 January 1950 | |
Los Angeles | ![]() |
Baltimore | heavy cruiser | 13,600 | 22 July 1945 | decommissioned 1963, scrapped 1975 |
Louisville | Northampton | heavy cruiser | 9,200 | 15 January 1931 | scrapped 1959 | |
Luigi Cadorna | ![]() |
Condottieri (Cadorna) | light cruiser | 5,239 | 11 August 1933 | scrapped 1951 |
Luigi di Savoia Duca degli Abruzzi | Condottieri (Duca degli Abruzzi) | light cruiser | 11,170 | 1 December 1937 | decommissioned January 1961, scrapped 1972 | |
Macon | ![]() |
Baltimore | heavy cruiser | 13,600 | 26 August 1945 | decommissioned 1961, scrapped 1973 |
Manchester | ![]() |
Town (Gloucester) | light cruiser | 9,400 | 4 August 1938 | scuttled 13 August 1942 |
Marblehead | ![]() |
Omaha | light cruiser | 7,050 | 8 September 1924 | scrapped 1946 |
Mariscal Sucre | ![]() |
protected cruiser | 970 | 1887 | scrapped 1940 | |
Marseillaise | ![]() |
La Galissonniere | light cruiser | 7,600 | 10 October 1937 | scuttled 27 November 1942 |
Mauritius | ![]() |
Crown Colony (Fiji) | light cruiser | 8,530 | 4 January 1941 | scrapped 1965 |
Maxim Gorky | ![]() |
Kirov (Project 26bis) | light cruiser | 8,048 | 12 December 1940 | sold for scrap 18 April 1959 |
Maya | ![]() |
Takao | heavy cruiser | 13,350 | 30 June 1932 | Sunk 23 October 1944 |
Memphis | ![]() |
Omaha | light cruiser | 7,050 | 17 December 1925 | scrapped 1947 |
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Blas de Lezo | light cruiser | 4,780 | 1924 | struck 1963 | |
Miami | ![]() |
Cleveland | light cruiser | 11,744 | 28 December 1943 | sold for scrap 20 July 1962 |
Miguel de Cervantes | ![]() |
Almirante Cervera | light cruiser | 7,475 | 10 February 1930 | stricken 1964 |
Mikuma | ![]() |
Mogami | heavy cruiser | 13,440 | 29 August 1935 | sunk 6 June 1942 |
Milwaukee | ![]() ![]() |
Omaha | light cruiser | 7,050 | 20 June 1923 | loaned to USSR as Murmansk 20 April 1944; returned 16 March 1949; scrapped 10 December 1949 |
Minneapolis | ![]() |
New Orleans | heavy cruiser | 9,950 | 19 May 1934 | Decommissioned 10 February 1947, scrapped 1959 |
Mobile | Cleveland | light cruiser | 11,744 | 24 March 1943 | sold for scrap 16 December 1959 | |
Mogami | ![]() |
Mogami | heavy cruiser | 12,400 | 28 July 1935 | Sunk 25 October 1944 |
Molotov | ![]() |
Kirov (Project 26bis) | light cruiser | 8,048 | 14 January 1941 | renamed Slava 3 August 1957, sold for scrap 4 April 1972 |
Montcalm | ![]() ![]() |
La Galissonniere | light cruiser | 7,600 | 15 November 1937 | Decommissioned 1 May 1957 |
Montpelier | ![]() |
Cleveland | light cruiser | 11,744 | 9 September 1942 | sold for scrap 22 January 1960 |
Muzio Attendolo | ![]() |
Condottieri (Montecuccoli) | light cruiser | 7,405 | 7 August 1935 | sunk 4 December 1942 |
Myōkō | ![]() |
Myōkō | heavy cruiser | 13,380 | 31 July 1929 | scuttled by Royal Navy 8 June 1946 |
Naiad | ![]() |
Dido | light cruiser | 5,600 | 24 July 1940 | sunk 11 March 1942 |
Nachi | ![]() |
Myōkō | heavy cruiser | 13,380 | 28 November 1928 | sunk 5 November 1944 |
Nagara | Nagara | light cruiser | 5,088 | 21 April 1922 | lost 7 August 1944 | |
Naka | Sendai | light cruiser | 7,100 | 30 November 1925 | sunk 17 February 1944 | |
Nashville | ![]() |
Brooklyn | light cruiser | 9,767 | 6 June 1938 | to Chile as Capitán Prat January 1951, scrapped 1985 |
Natori | ![]() |
Nagara | light cruiser | 5,088 | 15 September 1922 | lost 18 August 1944 |
Navarra | ![]() |
light cruiser | 5,502 | 15 January 1920 | retired 1956 | |
Neptune | ![]() |
Leander | light cruiser | 7,000 | 23 February 1934 | lost 19 December 1941 |
New Orleans | ![]() |
New Orleans | heavy cruiser | 9,950 | 12 April 1933 | Decommissioned 10 February 1947, scrapped 1959 |
Newcastle | ![]() |
Town (Southampton) | light cruiser | 9,100 | 5 March 1937 | scrapped August 1959 |
Newfoundland | Crown Colony (Ceylon) | light cruiser | 8,530 | 21 January 1943 | to Peru as BAP Almirante Grau 1959, scrapped 1979 | |
Nigeria | Crown Colony (Fiji) | light cruiser | 8,530 | 23 September 1940 | to India as INS Mysore 29 August 1957, decommissioned 1985 | |
Niobe | ![]() |
Holland | anti-aircraft cruiser | 4,100 | 15 July 1900 | captured from Dutch as Gelderland 17 May 1940, sunk 16 July 1944 |
Norfolk | ![]() |
County (Norfolk) | heavy cruiser | 10,035 | 30 April 1930 | scrapped 1950 |
Northampton | ![]() |
Northampton | heavy cruiser | 9,050 | 17 May 1930 | lost 1 December 1942 |
Noshiro | ![]() |
Agano | light cruiser | 6,547 | 30 June 1943 | sunk 26 October 1944 |
Nürnberg | ![]() |
Leipzig | light cruiser | 8,900 | 2 November 1935 | transferred to Soviet Union as Admiral Makarov 1945, scrapped 1960 |
O'Higgins | ![]() |
armoured cruiser | 7,796 | 2 April 1898 | scrapped 1958 | |
Oakland | ![]() |
Atlanta (Oakland) | light cruiser | 6,718 | 17 July 1943 | decommissioned 1949, scrapped 1959 |
Ōi | ![]() |
Kuma | light cruiser | 5,100 | 10 October 1921 | sunk 19 July 1944 |
Oklahoma City | ![]() |
Cleveland | light cruiser | 11,744 | 22 December 1944 | converted to missile cruiser 1960, sunk as target 1999 |
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Bistrița | coastguard cruiser | 100 | 1888 | Used as river gunboat after the war, scrapped 1950's | |
Omaha | ![]() |
Omaha | light cruiser | 7,050 | 24 February 1923 | Scrapped February 1946 |
Ontario | ![]() |
Minotaur | light cruiser | 8,800 | July 1944 | laid up 15 October 1958 |
Orion | ![]() |
Leander | light cruiser | 7,000 | 18 January 1934 | scrapped 1949 |
Ottaviano Augusto | ![]() |
Capitani Romani | flotilla leader | 3,750 | Never commissioned | launched 28 April 1941, captured by Germany and never completed, sunk 1 November 1943 |
Ōyodo | ![]() |
Ōyodo | light cruiser | 11,433 | 28 February 1943 | sunk 25 July 1945 |
Paolo Emilio | ![]() |
Capitani Romani | flotilla leader | 3,750 | Never commissioned | laid down 12 October 1939, construction stopped June 1940, scrapped 1941-1942 |
Pasadena | ![]() |
Cleveland | light cruiser | 11,744 | 8 June 1944 | sold for scrap 5 July 1972 |
Penelope | ![]() |
Arethusa | light cruiser | 5,270 | 13 November 1936 | sunk 18 February 1944 |
Pensacola | ![]() |
Pensacola | heavy cruiser | 9,100 | 6 February 1930 | sunk as target 1948 |
Perth | ![]() |
Leander (Amphion) | light cruiser | 6,980 | 29 June 1939 | former HMS Amphion; sunk 1 March 1942 |
Peyk-i Şevket | ![]() |
Peyk-i Şevket | torpedo cruiser | 775 | November 1907 | Scrapped 1953 |
Petropavlovsk | ![]() |
Admiral Hipper | heavy cruiser | 14,680 | Never commissioned | fought incomplete in siege of Leningrad, renamed as Tallinn 1 September 1944, converted to training ship as Dniepr March 1953, scrapped late 1950's |
Philadelphia | ![]() |
Brooklyn | light cruiser | 9,767 | 23 September 1937 | to Brazil as Barroso January 1951, scrapped 1974 |
Phoebe | ![]() |
Dido | light cruiser | 5,600 | 27 September 1940 | scrapped 1956 |
Phoenix | ![]() |
Brooklyn | light cruiser | 9,767 | 3 October 1938 | to Argentina as ARA General Belgrano April 1951, sunk 2 May 1982 |
Pittsburgh | ![]() |
Baltimore | heavy cruiser | 13,600 | 10 October 1944 | decommissioned 1956, scrapped 1974 |
Pluton | ![]() |
minelayer light cruiser | 5,200 | 25 January 1932 | lost 13 September 1939 | |
Pola | ![]() |
Zara | heavy cruiser | 11,730 | 21 December 1932 | sunk 28 March 1941 |
Capitani Romani | flotilla leader | 3,750 | 4 June 1943 | renamed San Giorgio 1 July 1955, scrapped 1980 | ||
Portland | ![]() |
Portland | heavy cruiser | 9,950 | 23 February 1933 | decommissioned 1946, scrapped 1959 |
Portsmouth | Cleveland | light cruiser | 11,744 | 25 June 1945 | sold for scrap 26 February 1974 | |
Primauguet | ![]() |
Duguay-Trouin | light cruiser | 7,249 | 1 April 1927 | scuttled 8 November 1942, scrapped 1951 |
Prinz Eugen | ![]() |
Admiral Hipper | heavy cruiser | 16,700 | 1 August 1940 | to United States as USS Prinz Eugen (IX-300) 5 January 1946, used as target in nuclear tests, capsized 22 December 1946 |
Providence | ![]() |
Cleveland | light cruiser | 11,744 | 15 May 1945 | converted to missile cruiser 1959, scrapped 1980 |
Pueyrredón | ![]() |
Giuseppe Garibaldi | armoured cruiser | 6,100 | August 1898 | struck 2 August 1954, sold for scrap 1957 |
Quincy (CA-39) | ![]() |
New Orleans | heavy cruiser | 9,375 | 9 June 1936 | sunk 9 August 1942 |
Quincy (CA-71) | Baltimore | heavy cruiser | 13,600 | 15 December 1943 | decommissioned 1954, scrapped 1974 | |
Raimondo Montecuccoli | ![]() |
Condottieri (Montecuccoli) | light cruiser | 7,405 | 30 June 1935 | decommissioned 1964 |
Raleigh | ![]() |
Omaha | light cruiser | 7,050 | 6 February 1924 | scrapped 1946 |
Reno | Atlanta (Oakland) | light cruiser | 6,718 | 28 December 1943 | decommissioned 1946, scrapped 1962 | |
Richmond | Omaha | light cruiser | 7,050 | 2 July 1923 | scrapped 1946 | |
Rio Grande do Sul | ![]() |
Bahia | scout cruiser | 3,050 | 14 May 1910 | scrapped 1948 |
Royalist | ![]() |
Dido (Bellona) | light cruiser | 5,950 | 10 September 1943 | scrapped 1968 |
Sakawa | ![]() |
Agano | light cruiser | 6,547 | 30 November 1944 | sunk as target 2 July 1946 |
Salt Lake City | ![]() |
Pensacola | heavy cruiser | 9,100 | 11 December 1929 | sunk as target 1948 |
San Diego | Atlanta | light cruiser | 6,718 | 10 January 1942 | decommissioned 1946, scrapped 1960 | |
San Francisco | New Orleans | heavy cruiser | 9,950 | 10 February 1934 | Decommissioned 10 February 1946, scrapped 1959 | |
San Giorgio | ![]() |
San Giorgio | heavy cruiser | 10,167 | 1 July 1910 | decommissioned 22 January 1941 |
San Juan | ![]() |
Atlanta | light cruiser | 6,718 | 28 February 1942 | decommissioned 1946, scrapped 1961 |
Santa Fe | Cleveland | light cruiser | 11,744 | 24 November 1942 | sold for scrap 9 November 1959 | |
Savannah | Brooklyn | light cruiser | 9,767 | 10 March 1938 | decommissioned 1947, scrapped 1966 | |
Scipione Africano | ![]() |
Capitani Romani | flotilla leader | 3,750 | 23 April 1943 | ceded to France as Guichen 1948, scrapped 1982 |
Scylla | ![]() |
Dido | light cruiser | 5,600 | 12 June 1942 | scrapped 1950 |
Sendai | ![]() |
Sendai | light cruiser | 5,195 | 29 April 1924 | sunk 2 November 1943 |
Seydlitz | ![]() |
Admiral Hipper | heavy cruiser | 15,910 | Never commissioned | launched January 1939, construction stopped at 95% completion, converted to aircraft carrier as Weser March 1942, scuttled incomplete 29 January 1945 |
Sheffield | ![]() |
Town (Southampton) | light cruiser | 9,100 | 25 August 1937 | scrapped 1967 |
Shropshire | ![]() ![]() |
County (London) | heavy cruiser | 9,850 | 24 September 1929 | to Australia 20 April 1943, paid off 10 November 1949, scrapped 20 January 1955 |
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Bistrița | coastguard cruiser | 100 | 1888 | Used as river gunboat after the war, scrapped 1950's | |
Sirius | ![]() |
Dido | light cruiser | 5,600 | 6 May 1942 | scrapped 1956 |
Sussex | County (London) | heavy cruiser | 9,850 | 19 March 1929 | scrapped February 1950 | |
Southampton | Town (Southampton) | light cruiser | 9,100 | 6 March 1937 | scuttled 11 January 1941 | |
Spartan | Dido (Bellona) | light cruiser | 5,950 | 12 July 1943 | sunk 29 January 1944 | |
Springfield | ![]() |
Cleveland | light cruiser | 11,744 | 9 September 1944 | converted to missile cruiser 1960, decommissioned 1974, scrapped 1980 |
St. Louis | Brooklyn (St. Louis) | light cruiser | 10,000 | 19 May 1939 | to Brazil as Tamandaré January 1951, sunk under tow 1980 | |
Saint Paul | Baltimore | heavy cruiser | 13,600 | 17 February 1945 | decommissioned 1971, scrapped 1980 | |
Suffolk | ![]() |
County (Kent) | heavy cruiser | 9,850 | 31 May 1928 | scrapped 1948 |
Suffren | ![]() ![]() |
Suffren | heavy cruiser | 9,940 | 1 January 1930 | scrapped 1974 |
Sumatra | ![]() |
Java | light cruiser | 6,670 | 26 May 1926 | scuttled 9 June 1944 as Gooseberry breakwater blockship, sold for scrap 14 February 1951 |
Suzuya | ![]() |
Mogami | heavy cruiser | 15,900 | 31 October 1937 | sunk 25 October 1944 |
Swiftsure | ![]() |
Minotaur | light cruiser | 8,800 | 22 June 1944 | paid off 1958, scrapped 1962 |
Sydney | ![]() |
Leander (Amphion) | light cruiser | 6,980 | 24 September 1935 | sunk 19 November 1941 |
Takao | ![]() |
Takao | heavy cruiser | 13,160 | 31 May 1932 | Sunk 31 July 1945 |
Tama | Kuma | light cruiser | 5,100 | 29 January 1921 | sunk 25 October 1944 | |
Taranto | ![]() |
Magdeburg | light cruiser | 3,184 | 2 June 1925 | former German Strassburg; scuttled 23 September 1943 |
Tatsuta | ![]() |
Tenryu | light cruiser | 4,350 | 31 May 1919 | Sunk 13 March 1944 |
Tenryū | Tenryu | light cruiser | 4,350 | 20 November 1919 | Sunk 18 December 1942 | |
Tokiwa | Asama | armoured cruiser | 9,514 | 19 May 1899 | sunk 9 August 1945, scrapped 1947 | |
Toledo | ![]() |
Baltimore | heavy cruiser | 13,600 | 27 October 1946 | decommissioned 1960, scrapped 1974 |
Tone | ![]() |
Tone | heavy cruiser | 15,200 | 30 November 1938 | sunk 14 July 1945 |
Topeka | ![]() |
Cleveland | light cruiser | 11,744 | 23 December 1944 | converted to missile cruiser 1960, scrapped 1975 |
Tourville | ![]() ![]() |
Duquesne | heavy cruiser | 10,000 | 1 December 1928 | scrapped 1963 |
Trento | ![]() |
Trento | heavy cruiser | 10,511 | 3 April 1929 | sunk 14 June 1942 |
Trenton | ![]() |
Omaha | light cruiser | 7,050 | 19 April 1924 | scrapped 1946 |
Trieste | ![]() |
Trento | heavy cruiser | 10,511 | 21 December 1928 | sunk 1943 |
Trinidad | ![]() |
Crown Colony (Fiji) | light cruiser | 8,530 | 14 October 1941 | sunk 15 May 1942 |
Tromp | ![]() |
Tromp | flotilla leader | 3,404 | 18 August 1938 | decommissioned 1955 |
Tucson | ![]() |
Atlanta (Oakland) | light cruiser | 6,718 | 3 February 1945 | decommissioned 1949, scrapped 1971 |
Tuscaloosa | New Orleans | heavy cruiser | 9,950 | 17 August 1934 | Decommissioned 13 February 1946, scrapped 1959 | |
Uganda | ![]() ![]() |
Crown Colony (Ceylon) | light cruiser | 8,530 | 3 January 1943 | transferred to RCN 21 October 1944, scrapped 1961 |
Ulpio Traiano | ![]() |
Capitani Romani | flotilla leader | 3,750 | Never commissioned | launched 30 November 1942, sunk 3 January 1943 |
Veinticinco de Mayo | ![]() |
Veinticinco de Mayo | heavy cruiser | 6,800 | 18 July 1931 | scrapped 1962 |
Vesuvio | ![]() |
Etna | light cruiser | 5,900 | Never commissioned | originally ordered by Royal Thai Navy in 1938 as Naresuan, requisitioned by Italy in 1941, never completed |
Vicksburg | ![]() |
Cleveland | light cruiser | 11,744 | 12 June 1944 | sold for scrap 25 August 1964 |
Vincennes (CA-44) | New Orleans | heavy cruiser | 9,400 | 24 February 1937 | sunk 9 August 1942 | |
Vincennes (CL-64) | Cleveland | light cruiser | 11,744 | 21 January 1944 | sunk as target 28 October 1969 | |
Vipsanio Agrippa | ![]() |
Capitani Romani | flotilla leader | 3,750 | Never commissioned | laid down October 1939, construction stopped June 1940, scrapped 1941-1942 |
Voroshilov | ![]() |
Kirov (Project 26) | light cruiser | 7,770 | 20 June 1940 | sold for scrap 2 March 1973 |
Wichita | ![]() |
heavy cruiser | 10,589 | 16 February 1939 | decommissioned 1947, scrapped 1959 | |
Wilkes-Barre | Cleveland | light cruiser | 11,744 | 1 July 1944 | sunk as target 13 May 1972 | |
Yahagi | ![]() |
Agano | light cruiser | 6,547 | 29 December 1943 | sunk 7 April 1945 |
Yakumo | armoured cruiser | 9,494 | 20 June 1900 | scrapped 1 April 1947 | ||
Yasoshima | Ioshima | light cruiser | 2,200 | 25 September 1944 | sunk 23 September 1937 as Ping Hai, raised by Japan in 1938, reclassified as Kaibōkan in 1944, sunk by US aircraft on 25 November 1944 | |
Yat Sen | ![]() |
light cruiser | 1,624 | 10 October 1934 | sold for scrap 19 May 1959 | |
Ying Rui | Chao Ho | protected cruiser | 2,460 | 2 December 1911 | sunk 25 October 1937 | |
York | ![]() |
York | heavy cruiser | 8,250 | 1 May 1930 | constructive loss 26 March 1941, scrapped 1952 |
Yūbari | ![]() |
light cruiser | 2,840 | 23 July 1923 | sunk 28 April 1944 | |
Yura | Nagara | light cruiser | 5,088 | 20 March 1923 | lost 25 October 1942 | |
Zara | ![]() |
Zara | heavy cruiser | 11,500 | 20 October 1931 | sunk 29 March 1941 |
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