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• Heavy cruiser
  ...new guided missile technologies. The U.S. even built one postwar gun-only heavy cruiser class, which proved useful as a [[flagship]] and for [[naval gunfire suppor ...t-class]] destroyers, with 155mm guns, may be the closest type to a treaty heavy cruiser.
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• Heavy cruiser/Definition
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• Heavy cruiser/Related Articles
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• Wichita-class/Definition
  ...ore-class]], although the actual ship was a modified [[Northampton-class]] heavy cruiser
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• USS Astoria (CA-34)/Definition
  <noinclude>{{Subpages}}</noinclude>U.S. Navy [[cruiser|heavy cruiser]] built in 1934; active in [[World War Two in the Pacific]] until sunk at
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• Large cruiser/Definition
  ...r several national classes of WWII [[cruiser]], much heavier-gunned than [[heavy cruiser]]s but not approaching the capabilities of [[battlecruiser]]s; major exampl
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• Heavy cruiser
  ...new guided missile technologies. The U.S. even built one postwar gun-only heavy cruiser class, which proved useful as a [[flagship]] and for [[naval gunfire suppor ...t-class]] destroyers, with 155mm guns, may be the closest type to a treaty heavy cruiser.
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• 1930 London Naval Conference/Related Articles
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• Des Moines-class/Definition
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• USS Enterprise (NCC-1701)/Definition
  [[Starfleet Constitution-class]] heavy cruiser in service during the mid-late twenty-third century; featured in the origin
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• Northampton-class/Definition
  9000-ton U.S. Navy [[heavy cruiser]]s built in 1930-31; 1926 redesign of [[Pensacola-class]] with increased ar
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• Washington Naval Treaty/Related Articles
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• Baltimore-class/Definition
  Late WWII U.S. Navy class of [[heavy cruiser]]; some used in [[Korean War]]; 4 converted to [[Boston-class|Boston-]] and
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• Pensacola-class/Definition
  First post-WWI class of U.S. Navy [[heavy cruiser]]s; 1925 design built in 1929-1930; treaty-limited at 9100 tons and lightly
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• New Orleans-class/Definition
  10,136 ton U.S. [[heavy cruiser]]s designed, based on serious analysis of other countries' cruisers and a r
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• USS Quincy (CA-39)/Definition
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• Honor Harrington/Related Articles
  {{r|Heavy cruiser (Honorverse)}}
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• Oregon City-class/Definition
  ...ure redesign for better antiaircraft gunnery, a small class of U.S. Navy [[heavy cruiser]]s, converted to [[Albany-class]] missile cruisers, a command ship, or scra
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• Light cruiser/Definition
  A [[warship]] larger than a [[destroyer]], but smaller than a [[heavy cruiser]], with more or heavier main guns (typically 6"/152mm), and some [[armor (n
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• USS Vincennes (CA-44)/Definition
  Second ship of the [[United States Navy]] to bear the name, a [[heavy cruiser]] of the [[New Orleans-class]], built in 1934, fought in the [[Doolittle Ra
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• Light cruiser
  ...er''' is a fast warship, heavier than a [[destroyer]] but lighter than a [[heavy cruiser]]. They are no longer used by any modern navy. One of the classic applicat
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• USS Indianapolis (CA-35)/Definition
  <noinclude>{{Subpages}}</noinclude>[[Heavy cruiser]] of the U.S. Navy [[Portland-class]], built in 1932 and with a distinguish
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• Portland-class/Definition
  ...33 under [[London Naval Treaty]] constraints, these 10,300 ton U.S. Navy [[heavy cruiser]]s were originally near-copies of the [[Northampton-class]], but last two s
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• HMS Glowworm
  ...April 8, 1940, came out of a rain squall and confronted a German [[cruiser|heavy cruiser]], ''Admiral von Hipper''. Glowworm tried to hit with guns and torpedoes, b ...on and headed North. The Commanding Officer at once gave chase. The German heavy cruiser, Admiral Hipper, was sighted closing the Glowworm at high speed. Because of
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• Des Moines-class
  ...ptional [[naval gunfire support]] to ground troops. Still, the role of the heavy cruiser, in an era when the roar of surface gunfire actions disappeared into the ec | title = USS Salem (CA-139), the world's only preserved heavy cruiser}}</ref>
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• USS Astoria (CA-34)
  '''''USS Astoria'' (CA-34)''' was a 9950-ton cruiser|heavy cruiser of the New Orleans-class, who went into service in 1934. She was active in
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• Battle of Jutland
  ***8 armored cruisers (roughly comparable to modern [[heavy cruiser]])
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• USS Quincy (CA-39)
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• USS Johnston (DD-557)
  ...at cruisers. In torpedo range before her sister ships, she hit Japanese heavy cruiser, ''IJN Kumano'' and blew off her bow.
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• USS Indianapolis (CA-35)
  '''''USS Indianapolis'' (CA-35)''' was a [[Portland-class]] [[heavy cruiser]] of the [[United States Navy]], entering service in 1932, and accumulating
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• Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands
  ...Japanese attack damaged the ''Enterprise'', while U.S. aircraft damaged a heavy cruiser and an aircraft carrier. Hornet, however, had to be abandoned. The Japanes
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• Battlecruiser
  ...for "large cruisers" whose size, armor, and armament placed the between a heavy cruiser and a battleship, but without a definitive mission few were built. Occasion
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• USS Valley Forge (CV-45)
  ...orea. Joining a [[Royal Navy]] unit of the carrier ''[[HMS Triumph]]'', a heavy cruiser and two destroyers, the UK-US squadron became Task Force 77 of the [[United
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• Battle of Surigao Strait
  ...attack and is retiring to plan subsequent action." As he pulled back, his heavy cruiser ''IJN Nachi'' collided with ''IJN Mogami'' of Force C, still barely afloat.
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• Richmond Kelly Turner
  ...] and served on that institution's staff in 1935-38. He next commanded the heavy cruiser [[USS Astoria]] and took her on a diplomatic mission to Japan in 1939.
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• Cruiser
  ...-protection against other ships, that being considered a caliber fit for a heavy cruiser. As it became obvious that carriers would always be escorted, the heavier g ...h-end modern destroyer could be as strong an anti-surface threat as a WWII heavy cruiser, and immensely more in anti-air warfare. For a time, however, a distinction
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• Honor Harrington
  | Mid-level [[captain (naval)|captain]] ([[heavy cruiser]] ''HMS Fearless'' (new ship); joint RMN-GSN squadron command )
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• Chester W. Nimitz
  ...His first major surface command, in 1933, was the [[cruiser#heavy cruiser|heavy cruiser]] USS ''Augusta'', flagship of the Asiatic Fleet.
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• Battleship
  ...ding|commerce raider]]. She was mission-killed by two light cruisers and a heavy cruiser at the [[Cruiser#Battle of the River Plate|Battle of the River Plate]]. Her ...did not rigorously define any ship type other than [[cruiser#heavy cruiser|heavy cruiser]].
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• Field of Dishonor
  She takes command of a heavy cruiser of Manticore's close ally and her second world, Grayson. Grayson has been a
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• Destroyer
  ...orm'', on April 8, 1940, came out of a rain squall and confronted a German heavy cruiser, ''Admiral von Hipper''. Glowworm tried to hit with guns and torpedoes, but
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• USS Almaack (AKA-10)
  ...27 July 1941, bound for [[Iceland]]. Screened by a [[battleship]], three [[heavy cruiser]]s, and seven [[destroyer]]s, the convoy included ''Almaack'', a transport, ...ial attacks, the battleship [[USS Mississippi (BB-41)]] and the Australian heavy cruiser HMAS ''Australia'', both crashed by Japanese suiciders.
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• Battle of Leyte Gulf
  ! Heavy cruiser ...rce, built around two old battleships, ''IJN Yamashiro'' and ''IJN Fuso'', heavy cruiser ''IJN Mogami'', and four destroyers, including ''IJN Shigure''.
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• William Halsey
  ...dcast that a state of war existed with Japan, and, at 0921, ordered TF3, a heavy cruiser and destroyers, and TF 12, the ''USS Lexington'' and screen to join Halsey. ...Japanese attack damaged the ''Enterprise'', while U.S. aircraft damaged a heavy cruiser and an aircraft carrier. Hornet, however, had to be abandoned. The Japanes
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• Korean War
  ...orea. Joining a [[Royal Navy]] unit of the carrier ''[[HMS Triumph]]'', a heavy cruiser and two destroyers, the UK-US squadron became Task Force 77 of the [[United
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• USS Yancey (AKA-93)
  ...vacuating wounded. The ship also transferred 8&nbsp;inch ammunition to the heavy cruiser [[USS Pensacola (CA-24)|USS ''Pensacola'' (CA-24)]], a process that had to
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