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Cruisers
The general purpose warship.

1

ARA General Belgrano (C-6)
The ARA General Belgrano C-4 warship was built as the USS Phoenix (CL-46), the fifth of the Brooklyn-class cruisers, built in the United States and launched in March 1938. She survived the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1...
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1951

2

Frunze (Admiral Lazarev)
The Frunze battlecruiser was a product of the Cold War, part of the Kirov-class of cruisers. Though serving in her intended role for years, she was later renamed as the Admiral Lazarev after 1992. Though traditionally classif...
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1984

3

HMS Belfast (C35)
Due to Germany rearming in the 1930’s Britain began to increase ships in her steel fortress. HMS Belfast and her sister ship Edinburgh were the Town class cruisers commissioned before the start of World War II. The Town Cl...
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1939

4

HMS Hood (51)
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1920

5

KMS Admiral Scheer
Admiral Scheer was the second of the three Deutschland class heavy cruisers ordered and funded by the Reichsmarine of the Weimar Republic in 1926. This class of ships were often referred to as "pocket battleship" - vessels s...
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1934

6

KMS Deutschland / Lutzow
KMS Deutschland (later becoming the KMS Lutzow) was the lead ship of her class first ordered in 1928 and serving in the German Kriegsmarine before and during World War 2. Her original planning teams went in two directions - t...
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1933

7

USS Canberra (CA-70)
The USS Canberra was a United States naval warship that was put into action in the middle years of World War 2 and survived long enough to take part in some of the most critical years of the Cold War and the Vietnam conflict....
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1943

8

USS Des Moines (CA-134)
The Navy’s last all gun heavy cruiser was the Des Moines class built by Bethlehem Steel Company Fore River, Quincy, Massachusetts. The United States Navy used the Baltimore class of heavy cruisers as the blue print making Des...
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1948

9

USS Indianapolis (CA-35)
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1932

10

USS Olympia (C-6)
Olympia C-6 was laid down in June 1891 at the Union Iron Works, San Francisco, California. She was launched in November of 1892 at a cost of $ 1,796,000 in 1895 dollars. The Navy was expanding the fleet building Olympia and ...
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1895

11

USS Phoenix (CL-46)
USS Phoenix (CL-46), was number five of seven built of the Brooklyn-class light cruisers and was commissioned on 10/03/1938. All served in World War II and were armed with five 6 inch gun turrets, three forward and two aft. ...
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1938

12

USS Ticonderoga (CG-47)
The USS Ticonderoga missile cruisers were developed from the Spruance-class family of ships designed and built during the 1970's to replace aged World War 2-era designs. The vessel was the lead ship in the Ticonderoga class a...
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1983

 
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