List of cruisers of World War II

The heavy cruiser was designed for long range, high speed, and heavy calibre naval guns. The first heavy cruisers were built in 1915, although it only became a widespread classification following the London Naval Treaty in 1930. The heavy cruiser's immediate precursors were the light cruiser designs of the 1910s and 1920s; the US 8-inch 'treaty cruisers' of the 1920s were originally classed as light cruisers until the London Treaty forced their redesignation. Heavy cruisers continued in use until after World War II.

The German Deutschland class was a series of three Panzerschiffe ("armored ships"), a form of heavily armed cruiser, built by the German Reichsmarine in nominal accordance with restrictions imposed by the Treaty of Versailles. The class is named after the first ship of this class to be completed (Deutschland). All three ships were launched between 1931 and 1934, and served with Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II. During the war, they were reclassified as heavy cruisers.

The British press began referring to the vessels as pocket battleships, in reference to the heavy firepower contained in the relatively small vessels; they were considerably smaller than contemporary battleships, though at 28 knots, were slower than battlecruisers. And although their displacement and scale of armor protection was that of a heavy cruiser, they were armed with guns larger than the heavy cruisers of other nations. Deutschland-class ships continue to be called pocket battleships in some circles. The development of the anti-aircraft cruiser began in 1935 when the Royal Navy re-armed HMS Coventry and HMS Curlew. Torpedo tubes and 6-inch (152 mm) low-angle guns were removed from these World War I light cruisers and replaced by ten 4-inch (102 mm) high-angle guns with appropriate fire-control equipment to provide larger warships with protection against high-altitude bombers.[1]

A tactical shortcoming was recognized after completing six additional conversions of C-class cruisers. Having sacrificed anti-ship weapons for anti-aircraft armament, the converted anti-aircraft cruisers might need protection themselves against surface units. New construction was undertaken to create cruisers of similar speed and displacement with dual-purpose guns. Dual-purpose guns offered good anti-aircraft protection with anti-surface capability for the traditional light cruiser role of defending capital ships from destroyers. The first purpose built anti-aircraft cruiser was the British Dido class, completed shortly before the beginning of World War II. The US Navy Atlanta-class anti-aircraft cruisers (CLAA) were designed to match capabilities of the Royal Navy. Both Dido and Atlanta carried torpedo tubes.

The quick-firing dual-purpose gun anti-aircraft cruiser concept was embraced in several designs completed too late to see combat including USS Worcester and USS Roanoke completed in 1948 and 1949, two De Zeven Provinciën-class cruisers completed in 1953, De Grasse and Colbert completed in 1955 and 1959, and HMS Tiger, HMS Lion and HMS Blake completed between 1959 and 1961.[2]

The List of ships of World War II contains major military vessels of the war, arranged alphabetically and by type. The list includes armed vessels that served during the war and in the immediate aftermath, inclusive of localized ongoing combat operations, garrison surrenders, post-surrender occupation, colony re-occupation, troop and prisoner repatriation, to the end of 1945. For smaller vessels, see also List of World War II ships of less than 1000 tons. Some uncompleted Axis ships are included, out of historic interest. Ships are designated to the country under which they operated for the longest period of the World War II, regardless of where they were built or previous service history.

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Ship Country Class (sub class) Type Displacement (tons) First commissioned Fate
Abrek  Soviet Navy Kazarskii torpedo cruiser 535 1897[3] Rated as a destroyer by WWII. scrapped 1948[4]
Abukuma  Imperial Japanese Navy Nagara light cruiser 5,088 6 May 1925 Sunk 26 October 1944[5]
Achilles  Royal New Zealand Navy Leander light cruiser 6,985 10 October 1933 sold to India 5 July 1948 as Delhi, scrapped 1978
Adelaide  Royal Australian Navy Birmingham light cruiser 5,550 5 August 1922 Scrapped 1949
Admiral Graf Spee  Kriegsmarine Deutschland cruiser 14,650 6 January 1936 scuttled 17 December 1939
Admiral Hipper  Kriegsmarine Admiral Hipper heavy cruiser 15,910 25 April 1939 Scuttled 2 May 1945
Admiral Scheer  Kriegsmarine Deutschland cruiser 13,440 12 November 1934 Sunk 9 April 1945
Agano  Imperial Japanese Navy Agano light cruiser 6,650 31 October 1942 Sunk 15 February 1944
Ajax  Royal Navy Leander light cruiser 7,220 3 June 1935 Scrapped 1949
Alberico da Barbiano  Regia Marina Condottieri (Alberto da Giussano) light cruiser 5,200 9 June 1931 Sunk 13 December 1941
Alberto di Giussano Condottieri (Alberto da Giussano) light cruiser 5,200 1 January 1931 Sunk 13 December 1941
Algérie  French Navy heavy cruiser 10,000 15 September 1934 scuttled 27 November 1942
Almirante Brown  Argentine Navy Veinticinco de Mayo heavy cruiser 6,800 18 July 1931 scrapped 1962
Almirante Cervera  Spanish Navy Almirante Cervera light cruiser 7,475 May 1927 Stricken 1966
Almirante Grau  Peruvian Navy Almirante Grau scout cruiser 3,150 1907 Stricken 1958
Amsterdam  United States Navy Cleveland light cruiser 11,800 8 January 1945 Scrapped 1971
Aoba  Imperial Japanese Navy Aoba heavy cruiser 8,300 20 September 1927 Sunk 28 July 1945
Arethusa  Royal Navy Arethusa light cruiser 5,220 23 May 1935 scrapped 1950
Argonaut Dido light cruiser 5,600 8 August 1942 scrapped 1955
Armando Diaz  Regia Marina Condottieri (Cadorna) light cruiser 5,316 29 April 1933 Sunk 25 February 1941
Ashigara  Imperial Japanese Navy Myōkō heavy cruiser 13,300 20 August 1929 Sunk 8 June 1945
Astoria (CA-34)  United States Navy New Orleans heavy cruiser 9,950 28 April 1934 Sunk 9 August 1942 Battle of Savo Island
Astoria (CL-90) Cleveland light cruiser 11,800 17 May 1944 Scrapped 1971
Atago  Imperial Japanese Navy Takao heavy cruiser 14,616 30 March 1932 Sunk 23 October 1944
Atlanta (CL-51)  United States Navy Atlanta light cruiser 6,000 24 December 1941 Sunk 13 November 1942 at Guadalcanal
Atlanta (CL-104) Cleveland light cruiser 11,800 3 December 1944 Sunk as target 1970
Attilio Regolo  Regia Marina Capitani Romani flotilla leader 3,750 August 1942 ceded to France 1948
Augusta  United States Navy Northampton heavy cruiser 9,200 30 January 1931 Scrapped 1960
Aurora  Royal Navy Arethusa light cruiser 5,220 12 November 1937 to China 19 May 1948
Aurora  Soviet Navy Pallada protected cruiser 6,731 29 July 1903 In 1957 became a museum ship.
Australia  Royal Australian Navy County (Kent) heavy cruiser 9,850 24 April 1928 Scrapped 1955
Bahia  Brazilian Navy Bahia scout cruiser 3,100 1910 lost 4 July 1945
Baltimore  United States Navy Baltimore heavy cruiser 17,200 15 April 1943 decommissioned 2 July 1954, scrapped 1972
Bari  Regia Marina Pillau light cruiser 3,284 14 December 1914 sunk 28 June 1943
Bartolomeo Colleoni  Regia Marina Condottieri (Alberto da Giussano) light cruiser 5,200 10 February 1932 Sunk 19 July 1940
Belfast  Royal Navy Town (Edinburgh) cruiser 10,635 5 August 1939 Museum ship since 21 October 1971
Bellona Dido (Bellona) light cruiser 5,950 29 October 1943 scrapped 1959
Berk-i Satvet  Turkish Naval Forces Peyk-i Şevket torpedo cruiser 775 1907 Scrapped 1953
Bermuda  Royal Navy Crown Colony (Fiji) light cruiser 8,000 21 August 1942 scrapped 1965
Berwick County (Kent) heavy cruiser 9,010 12 July 1927 scrapped 1948
Biloxi  United States Navy Cleveland light cruiser 11,800 31 August 1943 Scrapped 1962
Birmingham  Royal Navy Town (Southampton) light cruiser 9,770 18 November 1937 scrapped 1960
Birmingham  United States Navy Cleveland light cruiser 11,800 29 January 1943 Scrapped 1959
Bistrița  Royal Romanian Navy Bistrița coastguard cruiser 100 1888 Used as river gunboat after the war, scrapped 1950's
Black Prince  Royal Navy Dido (Bellona) light cruiser 5,950 30 November 1943 scrapped 1962
Blanco Encalada  Chilean Navy cruiser 3,435 1893 scrapped 1946
Blücher  Kriegsmarine Admiral Hipper heavy cruiser 15,910 20 September 1939 sunk 9 April 1940
Boise  United States Navy Brooklyn light cruiser 9,950 12 August 1938 Decommissioned 11 January 1951, sold to Argentina. Scrapped 1978
Bonaventure  Royal Navy Dido light cruiser 5,600 24 May 1940 sunk 31 March 1941
Boston  United States Navy Baltimore heavy cruiser 17,200 30 June 1943 decommissioned 1970, scrapped 1975
Bremerton Baltimore heavy cruiser 17,200 29 April 1945 decommissioned 1960, scrapped 1974
Brooklyn Brooklyn light cruiser 9,950 30 September 1937 Decommissioned 3 January 1947, sold to Chile. Sank in Pacific 1992
Cairo  Royal Navy C (Carlisle) light cruiser 4,200 24 September 1919 lost 12 August 1942
Calcutta 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  Spanish Navy Canarias heavy cruiser 10,670 September 1936 scrapped 1977
Canberra  Royal Australian Navy County (Kent) heavy cruiser 9,850 10 July 1928 scuttled 9 August 1942
Canberra  United States Navy Baltimore heavy cruiser 17,200 14 October 1943 decommissioned 1970, scrapped 1980
Capetown  Royal Navy C (Carlisle) light cruiser 4,200 10 April 1922 Scrapped June 1946
Caradoc 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
Ceres C (Ceres) light cruiser 4,290 1 June 1917 scrapped 1946
Ceylon Crown Colony (Ceylon) light cruiser 8,800 13 July 1943 sold to Peru 1959, renamed Colonel Bolognesi
Chacabuco  Chilean Navy Presidente Errazuriz cruiser 4,500 Discarded 1952
Chao Ho  Republic of China Navy Chao Ho cruiser 2,750 23 October 1911 sunk 28 September 1937
Charybdis  Royal Navy Dido light cruiser 5,600 3 December 1941 sunk 23 October 1943
Chervona Ukraina  Soviet Navy Admiral Nakhimov light cruiser 7,600 3 October 1913 Sunk 12 November 1941
Chester  United States Navy Northampton heavy cruiser 9,200 24 June 1930 scrapped 1959
Chicago (I) Northampton heavy cruiser 9,200 9 March 1931 sunk 30 January 1943
Chicago (II) Baltimore heavy cruiser 17,200 10 January 1945 converted to missile cruiser 1964, decommissioned 1980, scrapped 1992
Chikuma  Imperial Japanese Navy Tone heavy cruiser 15,200 30 May 1939 sunk 25 October 1944
Chōkai Takao heavy cruiser 15,781 30 June 1932 sunk 25 October 1944
Cincinnati  United States Navy Omaha light cruiser 7,050 1 January 1924 scrapped 1946
Cleopatra  Royal Navy Dido light cruiser 5,600 5 December 1941 scrapped 1958
Cleveland  United States Navy Cleveland light cruiser 10,000 15 June 1942 decommissioned 7 February 1947, scrapped 1960
Colbert  French Navy Suffren heavy cruiser 10,000 4 March 1931 scuttled 27 November 1942
Colombo  Royal Navy C (Carlisle) light cruiser 4,200 18 June 1919 scrapped 1948
Coronel Bolognesi  Peruvian Navy Almirante Grau scout cruiser 3,150 1907 Stricken 1958
Columbia  United States Navy Cleveland light cruiser 11,800 29 July 1942 scrapped 1959
Columbus Baltimore heavy cruiser 17,200 8 June 1945 converted to missile cruiser 1962, scrapped 1977
Concord Omaha light cruiser 7,050 3 November 1923 scrapped 1947
Cornwall  Royal Navy County (Kent) heavy cruiser 9,010 8 May 1928 sunk 5 April 1942
Coventry C (Ceres) light cruiser 4,290 21 February 1918 lost 14 September 1942
Cuba  Cuban Navy light cruiser 2,055 1911 Stricken 1971[6]
Cumberland  Royal Navy County (Kent) heavy cruiser 9,010 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  Royal Yugoslav Navy Gazelle light cruiser 2,963 25 June 1900 lost December 1943
Danae  Royal Navy Danae cruiser 4,850 22 July 1918 to Poland as Conrad 4 October 1944, scrapped March 1948
Dauntless Danae cruiser 4,850 10 April 1918 scrapped 1946
Dayton  United States Navy Cleveland light cruiser 11,800 7 January 1945 scrapped 1962
Delhi  Royal Navy Danae cruiser 4,850 June 1919 scrapped 1948
Denver  United States Navy Cleveland light cruiser 11,800 15 October 1942 scrapped 1960
De Ruyter  Royal Netherlands Navy De Ruyter cruiser 7,822 3 October 1936 sunk 28 February 1942
Despatch  Royal Navy Danae cruiser 4,850 2 June 1922 scrapped 1946
Detroit  United States Navy Omaha light cruiser 7,050 31 July 1923 scrapped 1946
Deutschland  Kriegsmarine Deutschland heavy cruiser 12,430 1 April 1933 renamed Lützow
Devonshire  Royal Navy County (London) heavy cruiser 9,750 18 March 1929 scrapped December 1954
Diadem Dido (Bellona) light cruiser 5,950 6 January 1944 to Pakistan, 1956
Dido Dido light cruiser 5,700 30 September 1940 scrapped 1957
Diomede Danae cruiser 4,850 24 April 1922 scrapped 1946
Dorsetshire County (Norfolk) heavy cruiser 10,196 30 September 1930 sunk 5 April 1942
Dragon  Royal Navy
 Polish Navy
Danae cruiser 4,850 August 1918 damaged, then used as a blockship in "Gooseberry" breakwater, July 1944
Duca degli Abruzzi  Regia Marina Condottieri (Duca degli Abruzzi) light cruiser 11,350 1 December 1937 paid off January 1961, scrapped 1972
Duguay-Trouin  French Navy
 Free French Naval Forces
Duguay-Trouin light cruiser 7,250 2 November 1926 decommissioned 9 March 1952
Duluth  United States Navy Cleveland light cruiser 11,800 18 September 1944 scrapped 1960
Dunedin  Royal Navy Danae cruiser 4,850 19 November 1918 lost 24 November 1941
Dupleix  French Navy Suffren heavy cruiser 10,000 7 July 1932 scuttled 27 November 1942
Duquesne  French Navy
 Free French Naval Forces
Duquesne heavy cruiser 10,000 6 December 1928 condemned 1955
Durban  Royal Navy Danae cruiser 4,850 1 November 1921 "Gooseberry" breakwater blockship, 9 June 1944
Edinburgh Town (Edinburgh) cruiser 10,635 6 July 1939 Sunk 2 May 1942
Effingham Hawkins heavy cruiser 9,750 2 July 1925 wrecked 18 May 1940
Elli  Hellenic Navy Chao Ho protected cruiser 2,115 November 1913 sunk 15 August 1940
Emanuele Filiberto Duca d'Aosta  Regia Marina Condottieri (Duca d'Aosta) light cruiser 8,450 13 July 1935 ceded to USSR 1949, renamed Kerch, scrapped in 1960s
Emden  Kriegsmarine light cruiser 5,600 October 1925 scuttled 3 May 1945
Emerald  Royal Navy Emerald light cruiser 7,580 14 January 1926 scrapped July 1948
Émile Bertin  French Navy
 Free French Naval Forces
Émile Bertin light cruiser 5,886 28 January 1935 scrapped 1959
Enterprise  Royal Navy Emerald light cruiser 7,580 7 April 1926 scrapped April 1946
Eugenio di Savoia  Regia Marina Condottieri (Duca d'Aosta) light cruiser 8,750 16 January 1936 ceded to Greece 1950, renamed Elli, scrapped 1973
Euryalus  Royal Navy Dido light cruiser 5,600 30 June 1941 scrapped 1959
Exeter York heavy cruiser 8,390 23 July 1931 sunk 1 March 1942
Fiji Crown Colony (Fiji) light cruiser 8,000 5 May 1940 sunk 22 May 1941
Fiume  Regia Marina Zara heavy cruiser 11,500 1931 sunk 29 March 1941
Flint  United States Navy Atlanta light cruiser 6,000 31 August 1944 decommissioned 1947, scrapped 1966
Foch  French Navy Suffren heavy cruiser 10,000 15 August 1931 scuttled 27 November 1942
Frobisher  Royal Navy Hawkins heavy cruiser 9,750 20 September 1924 scrapped 26 March 1949
Furutaka  Imperial Japanese Navy Furutaka heavy cruiser 9,150 31 March 1926 sunk 20 December 1942
Galatea  Royal Navy Arethusa light cruiser 5,220 23 May 1935 sunk 14 December 1941
Galicia  Spanish Navy Almirante Cervera light cruiser 7,475 30 August 1925 Stricken February 1970
Gambia  Royal Navy
 Royal New Zealand Navy
Crown Colony (Fiji) light cruiser 8,000 21 February 1942 scrapped 1968
General Belgrano  Argentine Navy Garibaldi cruiser 6,100 1896 Stricken 8 May 1947
Pueyrredón Garibaldi cruiser 6,100 Stricken 2 August 1954
George Leygues  French Navy
 Free French Naval Forces
La Galissonnière light cruiser 7,600 15 November 1937 scrapped 1959
Georgios Averof  Hellenic Navy armoured cruiser 9,450 16 May 1911 Decommissioned 1951, museum ship
Giovanni dalle Bande Nere  Regia Marina Condottieri (Alberto da Giussano) light cruiser 5,200 10 February 1932 Sunk 19 July 1940
Giuseppe Garibaldi Condottieri (Duca degli Abruzzi) light cruiser 9,195 1937 scrapped 1972
Glasgow  Royal Navy Town (Southampton) light cruiser 9,100 9 September 1937 paid off November 1956
Gloire  French Navy
 Free French Naval Forces
La Galissonnière light cruiser 7,600 15 November 1937 scrapped 1958
Gloucester  Royal Navy Town (Gloucester) light cruiser 9,400 31 January 1939 sunk 22 May 1941
Gorizia  Regia Marina Zara heavy cruiser 11,900 1931 sunk 1943
Haguro  Imperial Japanese Navy Myoko heavy cruiser 13,300 25 April 1929 sunk 16 May 1945
Hawkins  Royal Navy Hawkins heavy cruiser 9,750 25 July 1919 scrapped 21 August 1947
Helena  United States Navy St. Louis light cruiser 10,000 18 September 1939 sunk 6 July 1943
Hekla[7]  Royal Danish Navy light cruiser 1,322 1891 Stricken 1954
Hermione  Royal Navy Dido light cruiser 5,600 25 March 1941 sunk 16 June 1942
Hobart  Royal Australian Navy Leander (Amphion) light cruiser 6,980 28 September 1938 scrapped 1962
Honolulu  United States Navy Brooklyn light cruiser 9,650 15 June 1938 scrapped 1959
Houston (I) Northampton heavy cruiser 9,200 17 June 1930 sunk 1 March 1942
Houston (II) Cleveland light cruiser 11,800 20 December 1943 scrapped 1959
Indianapolis Portland heavy cruiser 9,800 15 November 1932 sunk 30 July 1945
Iwate  Imperial Japanese Navy Izumo armoured cruiser 9,750 18 March 1901 sunk 26 July 1945
Izumo Izumo armoured cruiser 9,750 25 September 1900 sunk 24 July 1945
Isuzu Nagara light cruiser 5,088 15 August 1923 Sunk 7 April 1945
Jacob van Heemskerk  Royal Netherlands Navy Tromp flotilla leader 4,064 16 September 1939 decommissioned 1969
Jamaica  Royal Navy Crown Colony (Fiji) light cruiser 8,000 29 June 1942 scrapped 1960
Java  Royal Netherlands Navy Java cruiser 8,078 1 May 1925 sunk 27 February 1942
Jean de Vienne  French Navy La Galissonnière light cruiser 7,600 10 February 1937 scuttled 27 November 1942
Jeanne d'Arc Jeanne d'Arc light cruiser 6,496 14 August 1931 scrapped 1965
Jintsu  Imperial Japanese Navy Sendai light cruiser 7,100 31 July 1925 sunk 13 July 1943
Juneau  United States Navy Atlanta light cruiser 6,000 14 February 1942 Sunk 13 November 1942
Kaganovich  Soviet Navy Kirov (Project 26-bis2) light cruiser 8,200 6 December 1944 Scrapped 6 February 1960
Kako  Imperial Japanese Navy Furutaka heavy cruiser 7,950 31 July 1926 sunk 10 August 1942
Kalinin  Soviet Navy Kirov (Project 26-bis2) light cruiser 8,200 31 December 1942 Scrapped 12 April 1963
Karlsruhe  Kriegsmarine Königsberg light cruiser 7,700 6 November 1929 sunk 9 April 1940
Kashii  Imperial Japanese Navy Katori light cruiser 6,180 15 July 1941 sunk 12 January 1945
Kashima Katori light cruiser 6,180 31 May 1940 struck 5 October 1945; scrapped 1947
Katori Katori light cruiser 6,180 20 April 1940 sunk 18 February 1944
Kent  Royal Navy County (Kent) heavy cruiser 10,010 25 June 1928 scrapped 1948
Kenya|Kenya]] Crown Colony (Fiji) light cruiser 8,000 27 September 1940 scrapped 1962
Kinu  Imperial Japanese Navy Nagara light cruiser 5,088 10 November 1922 sunk by USN aircraft, Sibuyan Sea 26 October 1944
Kinugasa Aoba heavy cruiser 9,000 30 September 1927 sunk 13 November 1942
Kirov  Soviet Navy Kirov (Project 26) light cruiser 7,880 23 September 1938 Struck December 1974
Kiso  Imperial Japanese Navy Kuma light cruiser 5,100 29 January 1921 20 March 1944; Sunk by USN aircraft west of Cavite
Kitakami Kuma light cruiser 5,100 15 April 1921 30 November 1945; Scrapped
Köln  Kriegsmarine Königsberg light cruiser 7,700 January 1930 sunk 3 March 1945
Königsberg Königsberg light cruiser 7,700 17 April 1929 sunk 10 April 1940, at Bergen, Norway
Krasny Kavkaz  Soviet Navy Admiral Nakhimov light cruiser 7,560 25 January 1932 Sunk as a target 1956
Krasnyi Krym Svetlana cruiser 6,800 1 July 1928 Sunk as target in 1959
Kuma  Imperial Japanese Navy Kuma light cruiser 5,550 31 August 1920 10 March 1944; Sunk by HMS Tally-Ho west of Penang
Kumano Mogami heavy cruiser 13,440 31 October 1931 sunk 15 November 1944
La Argentina  Argentine Navy light cruiser 6,500 discarded 1974
La Galissonnière  French Navy La Galissonnière light cruiser 7,600 1 January 1936 scuttled 27 November 1942
Lamotte-Piquet Duguay-Trouin light cruiser 7,249 5 March 1927 sunk 12 January 1945
Leander  Royal New Zealand Navy Leander light cruiser 6,985 24 March 1933 returned to UK 8 May 1944, scrapped 1950
Leipzig  Kriegsmarine Leipzig light cruiser 8,000 8 October 1931 scuttled 11 July 1946
Liverpool  Royal Navy Town (Gloucester) light cruiser 9,400 2 November 1938 paid off 1952
London County (London) heavy cruiser 9,750 31 January 1929 scrapped 1950
Los Angeles  United States Navy Baltimore heavy cruiser 17,200 22 July 1945 scrapped 1974
Louisville Northampton heavy cruiser 9,200 15 January 1931 scrapped 1959
Luigi Cadorna  Regia Marina Condottieri (Cadorna) light cruiser 5,316 11 August 1933 scrapped 1951
Manchester  Royal Navy Town (Gloucester) light cruiser 9,400 4 August 1938 scuttled 13 August 1942
Marblehead  United States Navy Omaha light cruiser 7,050 8 September 1924 scrapped 1946
Mariscal Sucre  Bolivarian Armada of Venezuela Isla de Luzón protected cruiser 970 1887 scrapped 1940
Marseillaise  French Navy La Galissonniere light cruiser 7,600 10 October 1937 scuttled 27 November 1942
Mauritius  Royal Navy Crown Colony (Fiji) light cruiser 8,000 1 January 1941 scrapped 1965
Maxim Gorky  Soviet Navy Kirov (Project 26-bis) light cruiser 8,200 25 October 1940 Decommissioned February 1956
Maya  Imperial Japanese Navy Takao heavy cruiser 13,350 30 June 1932 Sunk 23 October 1944
Memphis  United States Navy Omaha light cruiser 7,050 17 December 1925 scrapped 1947
Mendez Nunez  Spanish Navy Blas de Lezo cruiser 4,780 1924 Stricken 1963
Miami  United States Navy Cleveland light cruiser 11,800 28 December 1943 scrapped 1962
Miguel de Cervantes  Spanish Navy Almirante Cervera light cruiser 7,475 10 February 1930 Stricken 1964
Mikuma  Imperial Japanese Navy Mogami heavy cruiser 13,440 29 August 1935 Sunk 6 June 1942
Milwaukee|CL-5|2}  United States Navy
 Soviet Navy
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  United States Navy New Orleans heavy cruiser 9,950 19 May 1934 Decommissioned 10 February 1947, scrapped 1959
Mobile Cleveland light cruiser 11,800 24 March 1943 scrapped 1960
Mogami  Imperial Japanese Navy Mogami heavy cruiser 12,400 1935 Sunk 25 October 1944
Molotov  Soviet Navy Kirov (Project 26-bis) light cruiser 8,200 25 October 1940 decommissioned February 1956
Montcalm  French Navy
 Free French Naval Forces
La Galissonniere light cruiser 7,600 15 November 1937 Decommissioned 1 May 1957
Montpelier  United States Navy Cleveland light cruiser 11,800 9 September 1942 scrapped 1960
Muzio Attendolo  Regia Marina Condottieri (Montecuccoli) light cruiser 3,184 1935 lost 1942
Myōkō  Imperial Japanese Navy Myōkō heavy cruiser 13,380 1929 scuttled by Royal Navy 8 June 1946
Naiad  Royal Navy Dido light cruiser 5,600 24 July 1940 sunk 11 March 1942
Nachi  Imperial Japanese Navy Myōkō heavy cruiser 13,380 sunk 5 November 1944
Nagara Nagara light cruiser 5,088 lost 7 August 1944
Naka Sendai light cruiser 7,100 1925 sunk 17 February 1944
Nashville  United States Navy Brooklyn light cruiser 9,475 6 June 1938 sold to Chile 1951 (Capitan Prat)
Natori  Imperial Japanese Navy Nagara light cruiser 5,088 lost 18 August 1944
Navarra  Spanish Navy Navarra light cruiser 5,502 15 January 1920 Retired 1956
Neptune  Royal Navy Leander light cruiser 7,000 23 February 1934 lost 19 December 1941
New Orleans  United States Navy New Orleans heavy cruiser 9,950 12 April 1933 Decommissioned 10 February 1947, scrapped 1959
Newcastle  Royal Navy Town (Southampton) cruiser 9,100 5 March 1937 scrapped August 1959
Newfoundland Crown Colony (Ceylon) light cruiser 8,800 21 January 1943 sold to Peru 1959, renamed Almirante Grau
Nigeria Crown Colony (Fiji) light cruiser 8,000 23 September 1940 sold to India 29 August 1957, renamed Mysore
Ning Hai  China light cruiser 2,200 became Ioshima (Japan)
Niobe  Kriegsmarine Holland cruiser 4,100 15 July 1900 captured from Dutch as Gelderland 17 May 1940, sunk 16 July 1944
Norfolk  Royal Navy County (Norfolk) heavy cruiser 10,196 30 April 1930 scrapped 1950
Northampton  United States Navy Northampton heavy cruiser 9,050 17 May 1930 lost 1 December 1942
Noshiro  Imperial Japanese Navy Agano light cruiser 6,650 Sunk 26 October 1944
Nürnberg  Kriegsmarine Leipzig light cruiser 8,900 2 November 1935 transferred to Soviet Union as Admiral Makarov 1945, scrapped 1960
Oakland  United States Navy Atlanta light cruiser 6,000 17 July 1943 decommissioned 1949, scrapped 1959
Ōi  Imperial Japanese Navy Kuma light cruiser 5,100 10 October 1921 sunk19 July 1944
Oklahoma City  United States Navy Cleveland light cruiser 11,800 22 December 1944 converted to missile cruiser 1960, sunk as target 1999
Oltul  Royal Romanian Navy Bistrița coastguard cruiser 100 1888 Used as river gunboat after the war, scrapped 1950's
Omaha  United States Navy Omaha 7,050 24 February 1923 Scrapped February 1946
Ontario  Royal Canadian Navy Minotaur light cruiser 8,800 July 1944 laid up 15 October 1958
Orion  Royal Navy Leander light cruiser 7,000 18 January 1934 scrapped 1949
Ōyodo  Imperial Japanese Navy Ōyodo light cruiser 11,433 28 February 1943 sunk 25 July 1945
Pasadena  United States Navy Cleveland light cruiser 11,800 8 June 1944 scrapped 1970
Penelope  Royal Navy Arethusa light cruiser 5,220 13 November 1936 sunk 18 February 1944
Pensacola  United States Navy Pensacola heavy cruiser 9,100 6 February 1930 sunk as target 1948
Perth  Royal Australian Navy Leander (Amphion) light cruiser 6,980 29 June 1939 former HMS Amphion; sunk 1 March 1942
Peyk-i Şevket  Turkish Naval Forces Peyk-i Şevket torpedo cruiser 775 1907 Scrapped 1953
Petropavlovsk  Soviet Navy Admiral Hipper heavy cruiser 14,680 fought incomplete in siege of Leningrad, and as Tallinn
Philadelphia  United States Navy Brooklyn light cruiser 10,200 23 September 1937 transferred to Brazil as Almirante Barroso 1951, scrapped 1973
Phoebe  Royal Navy Dido light cruiser 5,600 27 September 1940 scrapped 1956
Phoenix  United States Navy Brooklyn light cruiser 10,200 3 October 1938 transferred to Argentina as General Belgrano, sunk 2 May 1982
Pittsburgh Baltimore heavy cruiser 17,200 10 October 1944 decommissioned 1956, scrapped 1974
Pluton  French Navy minelayer light cruiser 4,773 10 April 1931 lost 13 September 1939
Pola  Regia Marina Zara heavy cruiser 11,730 1932 sunk 28 March 1941
Pompeo Magno Capitani Romani flotilla leader 3,750 4 June 1943 paid off and scrapped 1980
Portland  United States Navy Portland heavy cruiser 9,950 23 February 1933 decommissioned 1946, scrapped 1959
Portsmouth Cleveland light cruiser 11,800 20 September 1944 scrapped 1974
Primauguet  French Navy Duguay-Trouin light cruiser 7,249 1 April 1927 scuttled 8 November 1942
Prinz Eugen  Kriegsmarine Admiral Hipper heavy cruiser 16,700 1 August 1940 sunk after A-bomb test at Bikini in 1946
Providence  United States Navy Cleveland light cruiser 11,800 15 May 1945 converted to missile cruiser 1959, scrapped 1980
Quincy (I) New Orleans heavy cruiser 9,375 9 June 1936 sunk 9 August 1942
Quincy (II) Baltimore heavy cruiser 13,600 December 1943 decommissioned 1954 and scrapped in 1974
Raimondo Montecuccoli  Regia Marina Condottieri (Montecuccoli) light cruiser 3,184 1935 decommissioned 1964
Raleigh  United States Navy Omaha light cruiser 7,050 6 February 1924 scrapped 1946
Reno Atlanta light cruiser 6,000 28 December 1943 decommissioned 1946, scrapped 1962
Richmond Omaha light cruiser 7,050 2 July 1923 scrapped 1946
Rio Grande do Sul  Brazil Bahia scout cruiser 3,100 14 May 1910 scrapped 1948
Royalist  Royal Navy Dido (Bellona) light cruiser 5,950 10 September 1943 scrapped 1968
Sakawa  Imperial Japanese Navy Agano light cruiser 6,650 30 November 1944 sunk as target 2 July 1946
Salt Lake City  United States Navy Pensacola heavy cruiser 9,100 11 December 1929 sunk as target 1948
San Diego Atlanta light cruiser 6,000 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  Regia Marina San Giorgio heavy cruiser 10,167 1 July 1910 decommissioned 22 January 1941
San Juan  United States Navy Atlanta light cruiser 6,000 28 February 1942 decommissioned 1946, scrapped 1961
Santa Fe Cleveland light cruiser 11,800 24 November 1942 scrapped 1959
Savannah Brooklyn light cruiser 9,475 10 March 1938 scrapped 1966
Scipione Africano  Regia Marina Capitani Romani flotilla leader 3,750 23 April 1943 to France post-war, scrapped 1979
Scylla  Royal Navy Dido light cruiser 5,600 12 June 1942 scrapped 1950
Sendai  Imperial Japanese Navy Sendai light cruiser 5,195 29 April 1924 sunk 2 November 1943
Sheffield  Royal Navy Town (Southampton) light cruiser 9,100 25 August 1937 scrapped 1967
Shropshire  Royal Navy
 Royal Australian Navy
County (London) heavy cruiser 9,750 24 September 1929 to Australia 20 April 1943, paid off 10 November 1949, scrapped December 1954
Siretul  Royal Romanian Navy Bistrița coastguard cruiser 100 1888 Used as river gunboat after the war, scrapped 1950's
Sirius  Royal Navy Dido light cruiser 5,600 6 May 1942 scrapped 1956
Sussex County (London) heavy cruiser 9,750 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  United States Navy Cleveland light cruiser 10,160 9 September 1944 converted to Providence-class guided missile cruiser 1960, decommissioned 1974, scrapped 1980
St. Louis St. Louis light cruiser 10,000 19 May 1939 to Brazil as Tamandare 1951, sunk under tow 1980
Saint Paul Baltimore heavy cruiser 17,200 17 February 1945 decommissioned 1971, scrapped 1980
Suffolk  Royal Navy County (Kent) heavy cruiser 9,010 31 May 1928 scrapped 1948
Suffren  French Navy
 Free French Naval Forces
Suffren heavy cruiser 9,940 1 January 1930 scrapped 1974
Sumatra  Royal Netherlands Navy Java 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 heavy cruiser 15,900 October 1937 sunk 25 October 1944
Swiftsure  Royal Navy Minotaur light cruiser 8,800 22 June 1944 paid off 1958, scrapped 1962
Sydney  Royal Australian Navy Leander (Amphion) light cruiser 6,980 24 September 1935 sunk 19 November 1941
Takao  Imperial Japanese Navy Takao heavy cruiser 13,160 31 May 1932 Sunk 31 July 1945
Tama cruiser 5,100 29 January 1921 Sunk 20 October 1944
Taranto  Regia Marina Magdeburg-class cruiser light cruiser 3,184 2 June 1925 former German Strassburg; scuttled 23 September 1943
Tatsuta  Imperial Japanese Navy Tenryu light cruiser 4,350 31 May 1919 Sunk 13 March 1944
Tenryū Tenryu light cruiser 4,350 20 November 1919 Sunk 18 December 1942
Tokiwa Asama armoured cruiser 9,700 18 May 1899 Sunk 9 August 1945
Tone Tone heavy cruiser 15,200 30 November 1938 Sunk 14 July 1945
Topeka  United States Navy Cleveland light cruiser 11,800 23 December 1944 converted to missile cruiser 1960, scrapped 1975
Tourville  French Navy
 Free French Naval Forces
Duquesne heavy cruiser 10,000 1 December 1928 condemned 1962
Trento  Regia Marina Trento heavy cruiser 10,511 1929 sunk 14 June 1942
Trenton  United States Navy Omaha light cruiser 7,050 19 April 1924 scrapped 1946
Trieste  Regia Marina Trento heavy cruiser 10,511 1928 sunk 1943
Trinidad  Royal Navy Crown Colony (Fiji) light cruiser 8,000 14 October 1941 sunk 15 May 1942
Tromp  Royal Netherlands Navy Tromp flotilla leader 3,404 18 August 1938 decommissioned 1955
Tucson  United States Navy Atlanta light cruiser 6,000 3 February 1945 scrapped 1971
Tuscaloosa New Orleans heavy cruiser 9,950 17 August 1934 Decommissioned 13 February 1946, scrapped 1959
Uganda  Royal Navy
 Royal Canadian Navy
Crown Colony (Ceylon) light cruiser 8,800 21 October 1944 transferred to RCN 21 October 1944, scrapped 1961
Veinticinco de Mayo  Argentine Navy Veinticinco de Mayo heavy cruiser 6,800 18 July 1931 scrapped 1962
Vicksburg  United States Navy Cleveland light cruiser 11,800 12 June 1944 scrapped 1964
Vincennes (I) New Orleans heavy cruiser 9,400 24 February 1937 sunk 9 August 1942
Vincennes (II) Cleveland light cruiser 11,800 21 January 1944 sunk as target 1966
Voroshilov  Soviet Navy Kirov (Project 26) light cruiser 7,880 20 June 1940 scrapped 1960s
Wichita  United States Navy heavy cruiser 10,759 16 February 1939 decommissioned 1947, scrapped 1959
Wilkes-Barre Cleveland light cruiser 11,800 1 July 1944 sunk as target 1972
Yahagi  Imperial Japanese Navy Agano light cruiser 6,650 29 December 1943 sunk 7 April 1945
Yakumo armoured cruiser 9,646 20 June 1900 scrapped 1 April 1947
Yasoshima Chao Ho cruiser 2,200 18 June 1936 sunk 23 September 1937 as Ping Hai, raised by Japan
Ying Swei  China Chao Ho cruiser 2,460 1911 Sunk 25 October 1937
York  Royal Navy York heavy cruiser 8,250 1 May 1930 constructive loss 26 March 1941, scrapped 1952
Yubari  Imperial Japanese Navy light cruiser 2,890 1923 sunk 27 April 1944
Yura Nagara light cruiser 5,088 1922 lost 25 October 1942
Zara  Regia Marina Zara heavy cruiser 11,500 20 October 1931 sunk 29 March 1941

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