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This list of cruisers of the United States Navy includes all ships that were ever called "cruiser", either publicly or in internal documentation. The Navy has 9 Ticonderoga -class cruisers in active service, as of 10 October 2024, with the last tentatively scheduled for decommissioning in 2027. With the cancellation of the CG (X) program in ...
The List of ships of World War II contains major military vessels of the war, arranged alphabetically and by type. The list includes armed vessels that served during the war and in the immediate aftermath, inclusive of localized ongoing combat operations, garrison surrenders, post-surrender occupation, colony re-occupation, troop and prisoner ...
The term "cruiser" or "cruizer" [9] was first commonly used in the 17th century to refer to an independent warship. "Cruiser" meant the purpose or mission of a ship, rather than a category of vessel. However, the term was nonetheless used to mean a smaller, faster warship suitable for such a role.
USS Helena was a Brooklyn-class light cruiser built for the United States Navy in the late 1930s, the ninth and final member of the class.The Brooklyns were the first modern light cruisers built by the US Navy under the limitations of the London Naval Treaty, and they were intended to counter the Japanese Mogami class; as such, they carried a battery of fifteen 6-inch (150 mm) guns, the same ...
The Alaska -class cruisers were six very large cruisers ordered on 9 September 1940. [17] They were known, popularly and by some historians, as "battlecruisers", [18][19] although the Navy and at least one prominent historian [17] discouraged describing them as such and gave them the hull symbol for large cruisers (CB). All were named after ...
Alaska-class cruiser. Atlanta-class cruiser. Baltimore-class cruiser. Brooklyn-class cruiser. Cleveland-class cruiser. Fargo-class cruiser. Juneau-class cruiser. New Orleans-class cruiser. Northampton-class cruiser.
Baltimore. -class cruiser. The Baltimore-class heavy cruisers were a class of heavy cruisers in the United States Navy commissioned during and shortly after World War II. Fourteen Baltimore s were completed, more than any other class of heavy cruiser (the British County class had 15 vessels planned, but only 13 completed), along with another ...
Heavy cruisers. Veinticinco de Mayo class. Veinticinco de Mayo (1929) - Scrapped 1960. Almirante Brown (1929) - Scrapped 1962. Light cruisers. La Argentina (1937) - Retired 1972. Brooklyn class. Nueve de Julio (1936, ex-USS Boise) - Assigned 1951, retired 1977. General Belgrano (1938, ex-USS Phoenix) - Assigned 1951, sunk 1982 in the Falklands War.