Navy Cruisers
The general purpose warship that combines speed and firepower into one potent ocean-going package.
1987
The Admiral Gorshkov (formerly the "Baku" CVHG-103) was a late-Cold War-era aircraft carrier serving the Soviet Navy for a ti...
1951
The Argentine Navy ARA General Belgrano (C-4) warship was originally built as the American USS Phoenix (CL-46), the fifth of ...
1864
The Confederate Naval Department turned to James Dunwoody Bulloch - the Confederate States of America's agent in England - on...
1984
The Frunze battlecruiser was a product of the Cold War, part of the Kirov-class of cruisers. Though serving in her intended r...
1931
The Italian Navy, the "Regia Marina", designed the Zara-class as light cruisers due to the Washington Naval Treaty, a 1922 tr...
1939
Due to Germany rearming in the 1930's Britain began to increase ships in her steel fortress. HMS Belfast and her sister ship...
1920
The HMS Hood stood as the pride and joy of the British Royal Navy for over two decades. She was constructed towards the end o...
1913
In 1911 the Imperial Japanese Diet (Teikoku-gikai) passed funds to support the Naval Emergency Expansion Bill that authorized...
1972
The Kiev Class was a larger version of the Moskva Class and her design was a bold step in achieving a through-deck carrier. L...
1936
The Admiral Graf Spee was a pre-World War 2 vessel of the Deutschland-class of German warships. She was designed and built du...
1939
The Admiral Hipper was classified as a "heavy cruiser" type vessel and commissioned in April 1939, this prior to World War 2 ...
1934
Admiral Scheer was the second of the three Deutschland class heavy cruisers ordered and funded by the Reichsmarine of the Wei...
1933
KMS Deutschland (later becoming the KMS Lutzow) was the lead ship of her class first ordered in 1928 and serving in the Germa...
1939
After World War 1 the British Royal Navy continued to guard its trade routes with a powerful fleet of cruisers. To deal with ...
1937
Commissioned in 1937, the light cruiser Montcalm was the second of six ships of the La Galissonniere-class as built in France...
1915
In the city of Sarajevo in 1914, Austria's Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife were assassinated by Serbian nationalists sp...
1943
The USS Canberra was a United States naval warship that was put into action in the middle years of World War 2 and survived l...
1948
The Navy's last all gun heavy cruiser was the Des Moines class built by Bethlehem Steel Company Fore River, Quincy, Massachus...
1945
From the age of sail onwards, navies from around the world needed a class of warship to fit that special bill somewhere betwe...
1932
USS Indianapolis was the second ship built as an 8 inch 9,800 ton Portland-class heavy cruiser. The vessel was constructed at...
1934
The USS Minneapolis was purchased and constructed before America had become embroiled in World War 2. She was the third ship ...
1895
Olympia C-6 was laid down in June 1891 at the Union Iron Works, San Francisco, California. She was launched in November of 1...
1938
USS Phoenix (CL-46), was number five of seven built of the Brooklyn-class light cruisers and was commissioned on 10/03/1938. ...
1942
By the time World War 2 had ended in 1945, the USS San Diego (CL-53) would become the second-most decorated ship in the histo...
1983
The USS Ticonderoga missile cruisers were developed from the Spruance-class family of ships designed and built during the 197...
1889
The USS Yorktown (PG-1), or "Patrol Gunboat" (also recognized as a "third class" cruiser) was the lead ship of her Yorktown-c...
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