Cruiser/Catalogs
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National classes
France
Germany
First World War and Interwar
Second World War
Large
Heavy
Light
Japan
First World War and Interwar
Second World War
Heavy
Light
Russia
First World War and Interwar
Second World War
Heavy
Light
Cold War
- Sverdlovsk-class [r]: Last all-gun light cruisers to be built; Soviet Union had unclear doctrine but ships were excellent for showing the flag [e]
- Kara-class [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Kresta-class [r]: Add brief definition or description
Current
- Kirov-class [r]: Renamed the Admiral Ushakov-class under the Russian Federation, a Soviet class of large missile cruisers, probably the most potent surface warships built since WWII (excluding aircraft carriers) [e]
- Slava-class [r]: Add brief definition or description
United Kingdom
First World War and Interwar
Second World War
Heavy
Light
United States
First World War and Interwar
Heavy
- Pensacola-class [r]: First post-WWI class of U.S. Navy heavy cruisers; 1925 design built in 1929-1930; treaty-limited at 9100 tons and lightly gunned, although had the range for Pacific operations [e]
- Northampton-class [r]: 9000-ton U.S. Navy heavy cruisers built in 1930-31; 1926 redesign of Pensacola-class with increased armor and decreased armament; basis for Portland-class [e]
- Portland-class [r]: Built in 1932-1933 under London Naval Treaty constraints, these 10,300 ton U.S. Navy heavy cruisers were originally near-copies of the Northampton-class, but last two ships were up-armored and last converted to Wichita-class; USS Indianapolis (CA-35), of this class, sunk with greatest single-ship loss of life in the U.S. Navy [e]
- New Orleans-class [r]: 10,136 ton U.S. heavy cruisers designed, based on serious analysis of other countries' cruisers and a refinement of the Portland-class, built 1934-1937; well-armored although three were sunk in Battle of Savo Island [e]
- Wichita-class [r]: Completed in 1939, a 10,600 ton single-ship heavy cruiser class of the United States Navy, design was essentially an upgunned, uparmored Brooklyn-class (light cruiser) that was the basis for the successful Baltimore-class, although the actual ship was a modified Northampton-class heavy cruiser [e]
Light
- Omaha-class [r]: First U.S. cruisers built since 1905, a lightweight (7050 ton) class generally unsatisfactory except for high speed; succeeded by Brooklyn-class of 1938-1939 [e]
- Brooklyn-class [r]: 9767-ton (i.e., compliant with the Washington Naval Treaty limit), U.S. light cruisers built in 1938-1939, heavily gunned to match the Japanese Mogami-class (before their upgrading to heavy cruisers) and with an effective armor scheme derived from New Orleans-class heavy cruisers, but had problems with engines [e]
- St. Louis-class [r]: 10,000 ton U.S. light cruisers similar to the Brooklyn-class, fast, heavily gunned and armored, and with better machinery than the Brooklyns, but still a relatively flimsy hull; built 1938-1939 [e]
Second World War
Large
- Alaska-class [r]: Two-ship class of 30,000 ton U.S. Navy "large cruisers" with 12" main battery, 27,500 ton displacement; not battlecruisers as sometimes described, but a bad design intended for carrier escort; essentially a super-Baltimore-class; strikingly attractive ships with no real role not better done by the Iowa-class [e]
Heavy
- Baltimore-class [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Oregon City-class [r]: Add brief definition or description
Light and AA
- Atlanta-class [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Cleveland-class [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Fargo-class [r]: Add brief definition or description
Cold War
During the Cold War, the U.S. Navy went through numerous renamings of cruiser-like ship types, eventually stabilizing in 1975, but having gone through calling them "frigates" much larger than today's ocean escort frigates, and destroyer leaders. Burke-class destroyers operational today are as large, or larger, than several of these classes.
- Boston-class [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Albany-class [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Des Moines-class [r]: Add brief definition or description
- USS Long Beach (CGN-9) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Belknap-class [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Bainbridge-class [r]: Add brief definition or description
- USS Truxtun (CGN-35) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- California-class [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Virginia (cruiser)-class [r]: Add brief definition or description