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USS Louisville (CL/CA-28), a Northampton-class cruiser, was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named for the city of Louisville, Kentucky. She was active throughout the Pacific War . USS Louisville was the first large warship to be built in a drydock.
HMS Glasgow was a Town-class cruiser commissioned in September 1937. She took part in the Fleet Air Arm raid that crippled the Italian Fleet at Taranto in 1940. She had the unfortunate experience of sinking two Allied ships during her wartime service, once through accidental collision and the other by gunfire after a case of mistaken identity.
HMS Edinburgh was a Town-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy, which served during the Second World War. She was one of the last two Town class cruisers, which formed the Edinburgh sub-class. Edinburgh saw a great deal of combat service during the Second World War, especially in the North Sea and the Arctic Sea, where she was sunk by torpedoes ...
Vista-class cruise ship (2002) Vista-class cruise ship (2016) Voyager-class cruise ship; W. World-class cruise ship This page was last edited on 26 April 2023, at ...
USS Tuscaloosa (CL/CA-37) was a New Orleans-class cruiser of the U.S. Navy. Commissioned in 1934, she spent most of her career in the Atlantic and Caribbean, participating in several European wartime operations.
Just under a year later, on 31 January 2013, RCI announced that the official name of the new class of ships was the Quantum class. [5] [8] The first steel for the third vessel in the Quantum class was cut on 18 September 2014, the same day its name was announced to be Ovation of the Seas. [9] The keel was laid down by Meyer Werft on 5 March 2015.
Norwegian Spirit is a Leo-class cruise ship operated by Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL). She was built in 1998 for Star Cruises as SuperStar Leo by the Meyer Werft shipyard in Papenburg, Germany . In 2004 she was transferred to NCL and renamed Norwegian Spirit.
The Hawkins-class cruisers were designed to be able to hunt down commerce raiders in the open ocean, for which they needed a heavy armament, high speed and long range. Effingham had an overall length of 604 feet 10 inches (184.4 m), a beam of 65 feet (19.8 m) [ 3 ] and a draught of 19 feet 3 inches (5.9 m) at deep load . [ 4 ]