List of cruisers of World War II explained

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 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 . 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 and . Torpedo tubes and 60NaN0 low-angle guns were removed from these World War I light cruisers and replaced by ten 40NaN0 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 s. 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, completed shortly before the beginning of World War II. The US Navy 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 and completed in 1948 and 1949, two s completed in 1953, and completed in 1955 and 1959, and, and 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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List of cruisers of World War II

Ship	Operator	Class	Type	Displacement (tons)	First commissioned	Fate
		Abdiel	minelayer cruiser	2,650	15 April 1941	sunk 10 September 1943
Abrek		Kazarskii	torpedo cruiser	535	23 September 1897	rated as a destroyer by World War II, scrapped 1948
		Nagara	light cruiser	5,088	6 May 1925	Sunk 26 October 1944^[3]
		Leander	light cruiser	6,985	10 October 1933	sold to India 5 July 1948 as Delhi, scrapped 1978
		Birmingham	light cruiser	5,560	5 August 1922	scrapped 1949
		Deutschland	heavy cruiser	14,650	6 January 1936	scuttled 17 December 1939
		Admiral Hipper	heavy cruiser	15,910	25 April 1939	Scuttled 2 May 1945
		Deutschland	heavy cruiser	13,440	12 November 1934	sunk 9 April 1945
			minelayer cruiser	6,740	2 October 1926	reclassified as repair ship 1944, sold for scrap 1947
		Agano	light cruiser	6,547	31 October 1942	sunk 17 February 1944
		Leander	light cruiser	7,220	3 June 1935	Scrapped 1949
		Alaska	large cruiser	29,779	17 June 1944	scrapped 1960
		Condottieri (Alberto di Giussano)	light cruiser	6,467	9 June 1931	sunk 13 December 1941
			light cruiser	6,467	5 February 1931	sunk 13 December 1941
			heavy cruiser	10,000	15 June 1934	scuttled 27 November 1942, scrapped 1951
		Veinticinco de Mayo	heavy cruiser	6,800	18 July 1931	scrapped 1962
		Almirante Cervera	light cruiser	7,475	15 September 1927	stricken 1966
		Almirante Grau	scout cruiser	3,100	10 August 1907	stricken 1958
		Cleveland	light cruiser	11,744	8 January 1945	sold for scrap 11 February 1972
		Aoba	heavy cruiser	8,300	20 September 1927	sunk 28 July 1945, raised and scrapped 1946-1947
		Abdiel	minelayer cruiser	2,650	12 February 1944	scrapped November 1962
		Gazelle	light cruiser	2,663	12 May 1903	scuttled 3 May 1945, scrapped 1948
		Arethusa	light cruiser	5,220	23 May 1935	scrapped 1950
		Dido	light cruiser	5,600	8 August 1942	scrapped 1955
		Abdiel	minelayer cruiser	2,650	9 October 1943	scrapped June 1965
		Condottieri (Cadorna)	light cruiser	5,321	29 April 1933	sunk 25 February 1941
		Asama	armoured cruiser	9,560	18 March 1899	scrapped 1947
		Myōkō	heavy cruiser	13,300	20 August 1929	Sunk 8 June 1945
		New Orleans	heavy cruiser	9,950	28 April 1934	sunk 9 August 1942 Battle of Savo Island
		Cleveland	light cruiser	11,744	17 May 1944	sold for scrap 12 January 1971
		Takao	heavy cruiser	14,616	30 March 1932	sunk 23 October 1944
		Atlanta	light cruiser	6,718	24 December 1941	sunk 13 November 1942
		Cleveland	light cruiser	11,744	3 December 1944	sunk as target 1 October 1970
		Capitani Romani	flotilla leader	3,750	15 May 1942	ceded to France as Châteaurenault 1948, scrapped 1979
		Northampton	heavy cruiser	9,200	30 January 1931	Scrapped 1960
		Pallada	protected cruiser	6,731	29 July 1903	In 1957 became a museum ship.
		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
		County (Kent)	heavy cruiser	9,850	24 April 1928	sold for scrap 25 January 1955
			armoured cruiser	9,131	28 July 1900	struck 1941, scrapped 1946
			scout cruiser	3,050	21 May 1910	lost 4 July 1945
		Baltimore	heavy cruiser	13,600	15 April 1943	decommissioned 1956, scrapped 1972
Bałtyk			training cruiser	7,995	15 February 1899	captured by Germany 19 September 1939 and converted to barrack ship, scrapped 1942
		Pillau	light cruiser	3,284	14 December 1914	sunk 28 June 1943
		Condottieri (Alberto di Giussano)	light cruiser	6,467	10 February 1932	sunk 19 July 1940
		Town (Edinburgh)	light cruiser	10,635	5 August 1939	museum ship since 21 October 1971
		Dido (Bellona)	light cruiser	5,950	29 October 1943	scrapped 1959
Berk-i Satvet		Peyk-i Şevket	torpedo cruiser	775	13 November 1907	Scrapped 1946
		Crown Colony (Fiji)	light cruiser	8,530	21 August 1942	scrapped 1965
		County (Kent)	heavy cruiser	9,850	12 July 1927	scrapped 1948
		Cleveland	light cruiser	11,744	31 August 1943	sold for scrap 5 March 1962
		Town (Southampton)	light cruiser	9,770	18 November 1937	scrapped 1960
		Cleveland	light cruiser	11,744	29 January 1943	sold for scrap 12 November 1959
Bistrița		Bistrița	coastguard cruiser	100	1888	Used as river gunboat after the war, scrapped 1950's
		Dido (Bellona)	light cruiser	5,950	30 November 1943	scrapped 1962
			protected cruiser	3,435	1895	struck 19 December 1945
		Admiral Hipper	heavy cruiser	15,910	20 September 1939	sunk 9 April 1940
		Brooklyn	light cruiser	9,767	12 August 1938	to Argentina as ARA Nueve de Julio January 1951, scrapped 1983
			heavy cruiser	10,890	19 August 1933	sunk 21 June 1944
		Dido	light cruiser	5,600	24 May 1940	sunk 31 March 1941
		Baltimore	heavy cruiser	13,600	30 June 1943	converted to missile cruiser 1955, decommissioned 1970, scrapped 1975
			heavy cruiser	13,600	29 April 1945	decommissioned 29 July 1960, scrapped 1974
		Brooklyn	light cruiser	9,767	30 September 1937	to Chile as O'Higgins January 1951, sunk under tow 1992
		Capitani Romani	flotilla leader	3,750	Never commissioned	launched 17 August 1941, captured by Germany and converted as floating oil tank, scuttled 1944
		C (Carlisle)	light cruiser	4,200	24 September 1919	lost 12 August 1942
		C (Carlisle)	light cruiser	4,200	21 August 1919	lost 1 June 1941
		C (Caledon)	light cruiser	4,180	6 March 1917	scrapped 1948
		C (Caledon)	light cruiser	4,180	6 March 1917	scrapped January 1948
		Canarias	heavy cruiser	10,670	September 1936	scrapped 1977
		County (Kent)	heavy cruiser	9,850	10 July 1928	scuttled 9 August 1942
		Baltimore	heavy cruiser	13,600	14 October 1943	converted to missile cruiser 1956, decommissioned 1970, scrapped 1980
		C (Carlisle)	light cruiser	4,200	10 April 1922	Scrapped June 1946
		C (Caledon)	light cruiser	4,180	15 June 1917	scrapped 1946
		C (Ceres)	light cruiser	4,290	25 June 1917	scrapped 1946
		C (Carlisle)	light cruiser	4,200	11 November 1918	constructive total loss 9 October 1942, scrapped 1948
		C (Caroline)	light cruiser	4,200	4 December 1914	used as floating establishment 1924-2009, decommissioned 2011, preserved as museum ship
		C (Ceres)	light cruiser	4,290	1 June 1917	scrapped 1946
		Crown Colony (Ceylon)	light cruiser	8,530	13 July 1943	to Peru as 1960, scrapped 1985
			protected cruiser	4,500	1902	discarded 1952
		Chao Ho	protected cruiser	2,707	21 February 1912	sunk 28 September 1937
		Dido	light cruiser	5,600	3 December 1941	sunk 23 October 1943
		Admiral Nakhimov	light cruiser	7,480	21 March 1927	sunk 12 November 1941, raised 3 November 1947, used as target 1950-1980
		Northampton	heavy cruiser	9,200	24 June 1930	scrapped 1959
		Northampton	heavy cruiser	9,200	9 March 1931	sunk 30 January 1943
		Baltimore	heavy cruiser	13,600	10 January 1945	converted to missile cruiser 1964, decommissioned 1980, scrapped 1992
		Tone	heavy cruiser	15,200	30 May 1939	sunk 25 October 1944
		Takao	heavy cruiser	15,781	30 June 1932	sunk 25 October 1944
		Omaha	light cruiser	7,050	1 January 1924	scrapped 1946
			minelayer cruiser	1,550	23 February 1914	Scrapped 1960
		Capitani Romani	flotilla leader	3,750	Never commissioned	laid down 27 September 1939, construction stopped June 1940, scrapped 1941-1942
			flotilla leader	3,750	Never commissioned	laid down 28 September 1939, construction stopped June 1940, scrapped 1941-1942
		Dido	light cruiser	5,600	5 December 1941	scrapped 1958
		Cleveland	light cruiser	11,744	15 June 1942	sold for scrap 18 February 1960
		Suffren	heavy cruiser	10,000	4 March 1931	scuttled 27 November 1942
		C (Carlisle)	light cruiser	4,200	18 June 1919	scrapped 1948
		Cleveland	light cruiser	11,744	29 July 1942	sold for scrap 18 February 1959
		Baltimore	heavy cruiser	13,600	8 June 1945	converted to missile cruiser 1962, decommissioned 1975, scrapped 1977
		Omaha	light cruiser	7,050	3 November 1923	scrapped 1947
		Capitani Romani	flotilla leader	3,750	Never commissioned	launched 28 June 1941, captured by Germany and never completed, sunk July 1944
		County (Kent)	heavy cruiser	9,850	8 May 1928	sunk 5 April 1942
		Almirante Grau	scout cruiser	3,100	10 August 1907	stricken 1958
		C (Ceres)	light cruiser	4,290	21 February 1918	lost 14 September 1942
Cuba			light cruiser	2,023	1911	stricken 1971
		County (Kent)	heavy cruiser	9,850	23 February 1928	scrapped 1959
		C (Ceres)	light cruiser	4,290	18 February 1918	lost 2 October 1942
		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	light cruiser	4,850	22 July 1918	to Poland as ORP Conrad 4 October 1944, scrapped March 1948
			light cruiser	4,850	22 November 1918	scrapped 1946
		Cleveland	light cruiser	11,744	7 January 1945	sold for scrap 6 April 1962
			light cruiser	6,442	3 October 1936	sunk 28 February 1942
		Danae	light cruiser	4,850	7 June 1919	scrapped 1948
		Cleveland	light cruiser	11,744	15 October 1942	sold for scrap 4 February 1960
		Danae	light cruiser	4,850	2 June 1922	scrapped 1946
		Omaha	light cruiser	7,050	31 July 1923	scrapped 1946
		Deutschland	heavy cruiser	12,430	1 April 1933	renamed Lützow January 1940, sunk as target 22 July 1947
		County (London)	heavy cruiser	9,850	18 March 1929	scrapped 12 December 1954
		Dido (Bellona)	light cruiser	5,950	6 January 1944	to Pakistan as Babur February 1956, scrapped 1985
		Dido	light cruiser	5,600	30 September 1940	scrapped 1957
		Danae	light cruiser	4,850	22 October 1922	scrapped 1946
		County (Norfolk)	heavy cruiser	10,035	30 September 1930	sunk 5 April 1942
		Danae	light cruiser	4,850	16 August 1918	to Poland 15 January 1943, scuttled 20 July 1944 as Gooseberry breakwater blockship
		Duguay-Trouin	light cruiser	7,249	2 November 1926	decommissioned 29 March 1952
		Cleveland	light cruiser	11,744	18 September 1944	sold for scrap 14 November 1960
		Danae	light cruiser	4,850	13 September 1919	sunk 24 November 1941
		Suffren	heavy cruiser	10,000	7 July 1932	scuttled 27 November 1942
		Duquesne	heavy cruiser	10,000	6 December 1928	sold for scrap 27 July 1956
		Danae	light cruiser	4,850	1 November 1921	scuttled 9 June 1944 as Gooseberry breakwater blockship
		Town (Edinburgh)	light cruiser	10,635	6 July 1939	sunk 2 May 1942
		Hawkins	heavy cruiser	9,860	2 July 1925	wrecked 18 May 1940
		Chao Ho	protected cruiser	2,115	November 1913	sunk 15 August 1940
		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
			light cruiser	5,300	15 October 1925	scuttled 3 May 1945, scrapped 1949
		Emerald	light cruiser	7,580	14 January 1926	scrapped July 1948
			light cruiser	5,886	28 January 1935	scrapped October 1959
		Emerald	light cruiser	7,580	7 April 1926	scrapped April 1946
		Etna	light cruiser	5,900	Never commissioned	originally ordered by Royal Thai Navy in 1938 as Taksin, requisitioned by Italy in 1941, never completed
		Condottieri (Duca d'Aosta)	light cruiser	8,317	16 January 1936	ceded to Greece as Elli 1950, scrapped 1973
		Dido	light cruiser	5,600	30 June 1941	scrapped 1959
		York	heavy cruiser	8,390	23 July 1931	sunk 1 March 1942
		Baltimore	heavy cruiser	13,600	1 July 1945	decommissioned 1947, scrapped 1972
		Crown Colony (Fiji)	light cruiser	8,530	5 May 1940	sunk 22 May 1941
Fiume		Zara	heavy cruiser	11,500	23 November 1931	sunk 29 March 1941
		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
		Hawkins	heavy cruiser	9,860	20 September 1924	scrapped 26 March 1949
		Furutaka	heavy cruiser	7,100	31 March 1926	sunk 12 October 1942
			armoured cruiser	4,300	21 June 1907	sold for scrap 1957
		Arethusa	light cruiser	5,220	14 August 1935	sunk 14 December 1941
		Almirante Cervera	light cruiser	7,475	30 August 1925	stricken February 1970
		Crown Colony (Fiji)	light cruiser	8,530	21 February 1942	scrapped 1968
		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
		Condottieri (Alberto di Giussano)	light cruiser	6,467	27 April 1931	sunk 1 April 1942
		Capitani Romani	flotilla leader	3,750	19 January 1956	launched 26 July 1941, scuttled by Germany 28 September 1943, raised and completed by Italian Navy as San Marco 19 January 1956, decommissioned 1971
		Condottieri (Duca degli Abruzzi)	light cruiser	11,170	20 December 1937	converted to missile cruiser 1961, scrapped 1972
		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
		Town (Gloucester)	light cruiser	9,400	31 January 1939	sunk 22 May 1941
Gorizia		Zara	heavy cruiser	11,900	31 December 1931	sunk 1943
			seaplane cruiser	4,750	14 December 1934	Scrapped 1963
		Alaska	large cruiser	29,779	17 September 1944	scrapped 1961
Haguro		Myoko	heavy cruiser	13,300	25 April 1929	sunk 16 May 1945
		Hai Yung	protected cruiser	2,680	21 September 1898	scuttled 25 September 1937, salvaged and scrapped 1964
		Hai Chi	protected cruiser	4,232	10 May 1899	scuttled 11 August 1937
		Hai Yung	protected cruiser	2,680	24 August 1898	scuttled 25 September 1937, salvaged and scrapped 1960
			protected cruiser	2,680	27 July 1898	scuttled 11 August 1937
			protected cruiser	3,904	15 April 1904	paid off March 1947, sold for scrap on 10 September 1964
		Alaska	large cruiser	29,779	Never commissioned	launched 3 November 1945, construction stopped at 82.4% completion, scrapped 1959
		Hawkins	heavy cruiser	9,860	25 July 1919	scrapped 21 August 1947
		Brooklyn (St. Louis)	light cruiser	10,000	18 September 1939	sunk 6 July 1943
		Baltimore	heavy cruiser	13,600	4 September 1945	decommissioned 1963, scrapped 1975
^[4]		Hekla	light cruiser	1,301	1891	stricken 1954
		Dido	light cruiser	5,600	25 March 1941	sunk 16 June 1942
		Chikuma	protected cruiser	5,040	17 June 1912	stricken 1 April 1940, scrapped January 1947
		Leander (Amphion)	light cruiser	6,980	28 September 1938	scrapped 1962
		Brooklyn	light cruiser	9,767	15 June 1938	decommissioned 1947, scrapped 1959
		Northampton	heavy cruiser	9,200	17 June 1930	sunk 1 March 1942
		Cleveland	light cruiser	11,744	20 December 1943	sold for scrap 1 June 1961
		Portland	heavy cruiser	9,800	15 November 1932	sunk 30 July 1945
		Ibuki	heavy cruiser	12,030	Never commissioned	launched 21 May 1943, converted to light aircraft carrier December 1943, scrapped 22 September 1946
		Ioshima	light cruiser	2,200	10 June 1944	sunk 23 September 1937 as, raised by Japan in 1938, reclassified as Kaibōkan in 1944, sunk by on 19 September 1944
		Nagara	light cruiser	5,088	15 August 1923	sunk 7 April 1945
		Izumo	armoured cruiser	9,274	18 March 1901	sunk 25 July 1945, scrapped 1946-1947
			armoured cruiser	9,353	25 September 1900	sunk 28 July 1945, scrapped 1947
		Tromp	flotilla leader	4,064	16 September 1939	decommissioned 1969
		Crown Colony (Fiji)	light cruiser	8,530	29 June 1942	scrapped 1960
		Java	light cruiser	6,670	1 May 1925	sunk 27 February 1942
		La Galissonnière	light cruiser	7,600	10 February 1937	scuttled 27 November 1942
			training cruiser	6,496	14 August 1931	scrapped 1965
		Sendai	light cruiser	7,100	31 July 1925	sunk 13 July 1943
		Atlanta	light cruiser	6,718	14 February 1942	sunk 13 November 1942
		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
		Furutaka	heavy cruiser	7,100	31 July 1926	sunk 10 August 1942
		Kirov (Project 26bis2)	light cruiser	8,267	31 December 1942	struck 12 April 1963
		Königsberg	light cruiser	7,700	6 November 1929	sunk 9 April 1940
		Katori	light cruiser	5,890	15 July 1941	sunk 12 January 1945
			light cruiser	5,890	31 May 1940	struck 5 October 1945, scrapped 1947
		Giuseppe Garibaldi	armoured cruiser	7,578	7 January 1904	sunk 18 July 1945, salvaged and scrapped 1948
		Katori	light cruiser	5,890	20 April 1940	sunk 18 February 1944
		County (Kent)	heavy cruiser	9,850	25 June 1928	scrapped 1948
		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
		Aoba	heavy cruiser	8,300	30 September 1927	sunk 14 November 1942
		Kirov (Project 26)	light cruiser	7,765	23 September 1938	sold for scrap 22 February 1974
		Kuma	light cruiser	5,100	4 May 1921	sunk 13 November 1944
			light cruiser	5,100	15 April 1921	struck 30 November 1945, scrapped 1946-1947
		Königsberg	light cruiser	7,700	15 January 1930	sunk 3 March 1945
			light cruiser	7,700	17 April 1929	sunk 10 April 1940
		Bogatyr	light cruiser	6,340	July 1905	sunk as breakwater 10 October 1942
		Admiral Nakhimov	light cruiser	7,441	25 January 1932	sunk as a target 1950s
		Svetlana	light cruiser	6,731	1 July 1928	scrapped 1959
		Kronshtadt	heavy cruiser	39,034	Never commissioned	laid down 30 November 1939, 10.6% complete June 1941, scrapped 24 March 1947
Kreuzer M		M	light cruiser	8,366	Never commissioned	laid down 1 November 1938, broken up on slip 1942–1943
Kreuzer N			light cruiser	8,366	Never commissioned	laid down 1938, broken up on slip 1942–1943
Kreuzer O			light cruiser	8,366	Never commissioned	laid down 10 March 1939, broken up on slip 1942–1943
		Kuma	light cruiser	5,100	31 August 1920	sunk 11 January 1944
		Mogami	heavy cruiser	13,440	31 October 1931	sunk 15 November 1944
			light cruiser	6,500	12 April 1939	discarded 1974
La Galissonnière		La Galissonnière	light cruiser	7,600	1 January 1936	scuttled 27 November 1942
		Duguay-Trouin	light cruiser	7,249	5 March 1927	sunk 12 January 1945
		Abdiel	minelayer cruiser	2,650	4 May 1941	sunk 25 October 1941
		Leander	light cruiser	6,985	24 March 1933	returned to UK 8 May 1944, scrapped 1950
		Leipzig	light cruiser	8,000	8 October 1931	scuttled 11 July 1946
		Cleveland	light cruiser	11,744	17 June 1945	converted to missile cruiser 1960, preserved as museum ship since 1 June 1977
		Town (Gloucester)	light cruiser	9,400	2 November 1938	paid off 1952
		County (London)	heavy cruiser	9,850	31 January 1929	scrapped 22 January 1950
		Baltimore	heavy cruiser	13,600	22 July 1945	decommissioned 1963, scrapped 1975
		Northampton	heavy cruiser	9,200	15 January 1931	scrapped 1959
		Condottieri (Cadorna)	light cruiser	5,239	11 August 1933	scrapped 1951
		Condottieri (Duca degli Abruzzi)	light cruiser	11,170	1 December 1937	decommissioned January 1961, scrapped 1972
		Baltimore	heavy cruiser	13,600	26 August 1945	decommissioned 1961, scrapped 1973
		Town (Gloucester)	light cruiser	9,400	4 August 1938	scuttled 13 August 1942
		Abdiel	minelayer cruiser	2,650	20 June 1941	scrapped October 1972
		Omaha	light cruiser	7,050	8 September 1924	scrapped 1946
Mariscal Sucre		Isla de Luzón	protected cruiser	970	22 September 1887	scrapped 1940
Marseillaise		La Galissonniere	light cruiser	7,600	10 October 1937	scuttled 27 November 1942
		Crown Colony (Fiji)	light cruiser	8,530	4 January 1941	scrapped 1965
		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
			protected cruiser	3,485	19 December 1903	paid off 1 March 1947, scrapped 1952-1956
		Gazelle	light cruiser	2,617	26 July 1901	scuttled 3 May 1945, scrapped 1948-1950
		Omaha	light cruiser	7,050	17 December 1925	scrapped 1947
		Blas de Lezo	light cruiser	4,780	30 August 1924	struck 1963
		Cleveland	light cruiser	11,744	28 December 1943	sold for scrap 20 July 1962
		Almirante Cervera	light cruiser	7,475	10 February 1930	stricken 1964
		Mogami	heavy cruiser	13,440	29 August 1935	sunk 6 June 1942
		Omaha	light cruiser	7,050	20 June 1923	loaned to USSR as Murmansk 20 April 1944; returned 16 March 1949; scrapped 10 December 1949
		New Orleans	heavy cruiser	9,950	19 May 1934	Decommissioned 10 February 1947, scrapped 1959
		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
		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
		Cleveland	light cruiser	11,744	9 September 1942	sold for scrap 22 January 1960
		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
		Dido	light cruiser	5,600	24 July 1940	sunk 11 March 1942
Nachi		Myōkō	heavy cruiser	13,380	28 November 1928
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
		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
			light cruiser	5,502	15 January 1920	retired 1956
		Leander	light cruiser	7,000	23 February 1934	lost 19 December 1941
		New Orleans	heavy cruiser	9,950	12 April 1933	Decommissioned 10 February 1947, scrapped 1959
		Town (Southampton)	light cruiser	9,100	5 March 1937	scrapped August 1959
		Crown Colony (Ceylon)	light cruiser	8,530	21 January 1943	to Peru as BAP Almirante Grau 1959, scrapped 1979
		Crown Colony (Fiji)	light cruiser	8,530	23 September 1940	to India as 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
		County (Norfolk)	heavy cruiser	10,035	30 April 1930	scrapped 1950
		Northampton	heavy cruiser	9,050	17 May 1930	lost 1 December 1942
		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
			armoured cruiser	7,796	2 April 1898	scrapped 1958
		Atlanta (Oakland)	light cruiser	6,718	17 July 1943	decommissioned 1949, scrapped 1959
		Kuma	light cruiser	5,100	10 October 1921	sunk 19 July 1944
		Cleveland	light cruiser	11,744	22 December 1944	converted to missile cruiser 1960, sunk as target 1999
Oltul		Bistrița	coastguard cruiser	100	1888	Used as river gunboat after the war, scrapped 1950's
		Omaha	light cruiser	7,050	24 February 1923	Scrapped February 1946
		Minotaur	light cruiser	8,800	25 May 1945	laid up 15 October 1958
		Leander	light cruiser	7,000	18 January 1934	scrapped 1949
		Capitani Romani	flotilla leader	3,750	Never commissioned	launched 28 April 1941, captured by Germany and never completed, sunk 1 November 1943
		Ōyodo	light cruiser	11,433	28 February 1943	sunk 25 July 1945
		Capitani Romani	flotilla leader	3,750	Never commissioned	laid down 12 October 1939, construction stopped June 1940, scrapped 1941-1942
		Cleveland	light cruiser	11,744	8 June 1944	sold for scrap 5 July 1972
		Arethusa	light cruiser	5,270	13 November 1936	sunk 18 February 1944
		Pensacola	heavy cruiser	9,100	6 February 1930	sunk as target 1948
		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	13 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
		Brooklyn	light cruiser	9,767	23 September 1937	to Brazil as Barroso January 1951, scrapped 1974
		Dido	light cruiser	5,600	27 September 1940	scrapped 1956
		Brooklyn	light cruiser	9,767	3 October 1938	to Argentina as ARA General Belgrano April 1951, sunk 2 May 1982
		Baltimore	heavy cruiser	13,600	10 October 1944	decommissioned 1956, scrapped 1974
			minelayer cruiser	5,200	25 January 1932	lost 13 September 1939
		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	heavy cruiser	9,950	23 February 1933	decommissioned 1946, scrapped 1959
		Cleveland	light cruiser	11,744	25 June 1945	sold for scrap 26 February 1974
		Duguay-Trouin	light cruiser	7,249	1 April 1927	scuttled 8 November 1942, scrapped 1951
		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
		Cleveland	light cruiser	11,744	15 May 1945	converted to missile cruiser 1959, scrapped 1980
		Giuseppe Garibaldi	armoured cruiser	6,100	4 August 1898	struck 2 August 1954, sold for scrap 1957
		New Orleans	heavy cruiser	9,375	9 June 1936	sunk 9 August 1942
		Baltimore	heavy cruiser	13,600	15 December 1943	decommissioned 1954, scrapped 1974
		Condottieri (Montecuccoli)	light cruiser	7,405	30 June 1935	decommissioned 1964
		Omaha	light cruiser	7,050	6 February 1924	scrapped 1946
		Atlanta (Oakland)	light cruiser	6,718	28 December 1943	decommissioned 1946, scrapped 1962
		Omaha	light cruiser	7,050	2 July 1923	scrapped 1946
		Bahia	scout cruiser	3,050	14 May 1910	scrapped 1948
		Dido (Bellona)	light cruiser	5,950	10 September 1943	scrapped 1968
		Agano	light cruiser	6,547	30 November 1944	sunk as target 2 July 1946
		Pensacola	heavy cruiser	9,100	11 December 1929	sunk as target 1948
		Atlanta	light cruiser	6,718	10 January 1942	decommissioned 1946, scrapped 1960
		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
		Atlanta	light cruiser	6,718	28 February 1942	decommissioned 1946, scrapped 1961
		Cleveland	light cruiser	11,744	24 November 1942	sold for scrap 9 November 1959
		Brooklyn	light cruiser	9,767	10 March 1938	decommissioned 1947, scrapped 1966
		Capitani Romani	flotilla leader	3,750	23 April 1943	ceded to France as Guichen 1948, scrapped 1982
		Dido	light cruiser	5,600	12 June 1942	scrapped 1950
		Tennessee	armored cruiser	14,500	7 August 1906	decommissioned 1946, sold for scrap 1946
Sendai		Sendai	light cruiser	5,195	29 April 1924	sunk 2 November 1943
		Kronshtadt	heavy cruiser	39,034	Never commissioned	laid down 5 November 1939, 11.6% complete June 1941, scrapped 24 March 1947
		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
		Town (Southampton)	light cruiser	9,100	25 August 1937	scrapped 1967
		County (London)	heavy cruiser	9,850	24 September 1929	to Australia 20 April 1943, paid off 10 November 1949, scrapped 20 January 1955
Siretul		Bistrița	coastguard cruiser	100	1888	Used as river gunboat after the war, scrapped 1950's
		Dido	light cruiser	5,600	6 May 1942	scrapped 1956
		County (London)	heavy cruiser	9,850	19 March 1929	scrapped February 1950
		Town (Southampton)	light cruiser	9,100	6 March 1937	scuttled 11 January 1941
		Dido (Bellona)	light cruiser	5,950	12 July 1943	sunk 29 January 1944
		Cleveland	light cruiser	11,744	9 September 1944	converted to missile cruiser 1960, decommissioned 1974, scrapped 1980
		Brooklyn (St. Louis)	light cruiser	10,000	19 May 1939	to Brazil as Tamandaré January 1951, sunk under tow 1980
		Baltimore	heavy cruiser	13,600	17 February 1945	decommissioned 1971, scrapped 1980
SP1		Spähkreuzer	scout cruiser	5,700	Never commissioned	laid down 30 August 1941, broken up on slip by 31 July 1943
		County (Kent)	heavy cruiser	9,850	31 May 1928	scrapped 1948
Suffren		Suffren	heavy cruiser	9,940	1 January 1930	scrapped 1974
		Java	light cruiser	6,670	26 May 1926	scuttled 9 June 1944 as Gooseberry breakwater blockship, sold for scrap 14 February 1951
		Minotaur	light cruiser	8,800	16 November 1945	paid off 1957, scrapped 1960
Suzuya		Mogami	heavy cruiser	15,900	31 October 1937	sunk 25 October 1944
		Minotaur	light cruiser	8,800	22 June 1944	paid off 1958, scrapped 1962
		Leander (Amphion)	light cruiser	6,980	24 September 1935	sunk 19 November 1941
		Takao	heavy cruiser	13,160	31 May 1932	Sunk 31 July 1945
		Kuma	light cruiser	5,100	29 January 1921	sunk 25 October 1944
		Magdeburg	light cruiser	3,184	2 June 1925	former German Strassburg; scuttled 23 September 1943
		Tenryu	light cruiser	4,350	31 May 1919	Sunk 13 March 1944
		Tenryu	light cruiser	4,350	20 November 1919	Sunk 18 December 1942
		Asama	armoured cruiser	9,514	19 May 1899	sunk 9 August 1945, scrapped 1947
		Baltimore	heavy cruiser	13,600	27 October 1946	decommissioned 1960, scrapped 1974
		Tone	heavy cruiser	15,200	30 November 1938	sunk 14 July 1945
		Cleveland	light cruiser	11,744	23 December 1944	converted to missile cruiser 1960, scrapped 1975
		Duquesne	heavy cruiser	10,000	1 December 1928	scrapped 1963
		Trento	heavy cruiser	10,511	3 April 1929	sunk 14 June 1942
		Omaha	light cruiser	7,050	19 April 1924	scrapped 1946
Trieste		Trento	heavy cruiser	10,511	21 December 1928	sunk 1943
		Crown Colony (Fiji)	light cruiser	8,530	14 October 1941	sunk 15 May 1942
		Tromp	flotilla leader	3,404	18 August 1938	decommissioned 1955
		Atlanta (Oakland)	light cruiser	6,718	3 February 1945	decommissioned 1949, scrapped 1971
		New Orleans	heavy cruiser	9,950	17 August 1934	Decommissioned 13 February 1946, scrapped 1959
		Crown Colony (Ceylon)	light cruiser	8,530	3 January 1943	transferred to RCN 21 October 1944, scrapped 1961
		Capitani Romani	flotilla leader	3,750	Never commissioned	launched 30 November 1942, sunk 3 January 1943
		Veinticinco de Mayo	heavy cruiser	6,800	18 July 1931	scrapped 1962
		Etna	light cruiser	5,900	Never commissioned	originally ordered by Royal Thai Navy in 1938 as Naresuan, requisitioned by Italy in 1941, never completed
		Cleveland	light cruiser	11,744	12 June 1944	sold for scrap 25 August 1964
		New Orleans	heavy cruiser	9,400	24 February 1937	sunk 9 August 1942
		Cleveland	light cruiser	11,744	21 January 1944	sunk as target 28 October 1969
		Capitani Romani	flotilla leader	3,750	Never commissioned	laid down October 1939, construction stopped June 1940, scrapped 1941-1942
		Kirov (Project 26)	light cruiser	7,770	20 June 1940	sold for scrap 2 March 1973
		Abdiel	minelayer cruiser	2,650	25 August 1941	sunk 1 February 1943
			heavy cruiser	10,589	16 February 1939	decommissioned 1947, scrapped 1959
		Cleveland	light cruiser	11,744	1 July 1944	sunk as target 13 May 1972
		Chikuma	protected cruiser	5,040	27 July 1912	stricken 1 April 1940, scrapped 31 January 1947
		Agano	light cruiser	6,547	29 December 1943	sunk 7 April 1945
			armoured cruiser	9,494	20 June 1900	scrapped 1 April 1947
		Ioshima	light cruiser	2,200	25 September 1944	sunk 23 September 1937 as, raised by Japan in 1938, reclassified as Kaibōkan in 1944, sunk by US aircraft on 25 November 1944
			light cruiser	1,624	10 October 1934	sold for scrap 19 May 1959
		Chao Ho	protected cruiser	2,460	2 December 1911	sunk 25 October 1937
		Yodo	protected cruiser	1,270	8 April 1908	stricken 1 April 1940, scrapped 1945
		York	heavy cruiser	8,250	1 May 1930	constructive loss 26 March 1941, scrapped 1952
			light cruiser	2,840	23 July 1923	sunk 28 April 1944
		Nagara	light cruiser	5,088	20 March 1923	lost 25 October 1942
		Zara	heavy cruiser	11,500	20 October 1931	sunk 29 March 1941

See also

• List of cruisers of World War I

References

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• • Web site: NavSource Naval History.
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. Norman Friedman . British Cruisers: Two World Wars and After . Seaforth Publishing . 2010 . Barnsley, South Yorkshire . 978-1-84832-078-9.

• Book: Polak, Christian . 2005 . Sabre et Pinceau: Par d'autres Français au Japon (1872–1960) . Hiroshi Ueki (植木 浩), Philippe Pons, foreword; 筆と刀・日本の中のもうひとつのフランス (1872–1960) . French, Japanese . éd. L'Harmattan.
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Notes and References

1. Anti-Aircraft Cruisers: The Life of a Class . Norman . Friedman . January 1965 . 91 . 1 . . 86 . United States Naval Institute . Annapolis, Maryland.
2. Anti-Aircraft Cruisers: The Life of a Class . Norman . Friedman . January 1965 . 91 . 1 . . 96–97 . United States Naval Institute . Annapolis, Maryland.
3. Web site: Hackett . Bob . Kingsepp . Sander . IJN Abukuma: Tabular Record of Movement . CombinedFleet.com . 19 October 2012.
4. Web site: Hekla (1891-1954) . Johnny E. . Balsved . 31 March 2005 . NavalHistory.dk . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090315233147/http://navalhistory.dk/english/TheShips/H/Hekla(1891).htm . 2009-03-15.