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Heavy cruisers continued in use until after World War II. The German Deutschland class was a series of three Panzerschiffe ("armored ships"), a form of heavily armed cruiser, built by the German Reichsmarine in nominal accordance with restrictions imposed by the Treaty of Versailles.
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; Omaha-class cruiser; Pensacola-class cruiser; Portland-class cruiser
The Cleveland-class was a group of light cruisers built for the United States Navy during World War II. They were the most numerous class of light cruisers ever built. Fifty-two were ordered, and 36 were completed, 27 as cruisers and nine as the Independence-class of light aircraft carriers. They were deactivated within a few years after the ...
When the United States entered World War II it had three major classes of cruisers under construction: the Atlanta and Cleveland light cruiser classes (with 5-inch and 6-inch main batteries, respectively), and the Baltimore-class of heavy cruisers.
Long Beach was the last cruiser built with a World War II-era cruiser hull style, [5] [6] as later new-build cruisers were built with different hull forms, such as the converted frigates Leahy, Bainbridge, Belknap, Truxtun, and the California and Virginia classes, or the Ticonderoga-class cruiser that was built on a Spruance-class destroyer hull.
USS Richmond (CL-9) was an Omaha-class light cruiser, originally classified as a scout cruiser, of the United States Navy. She was the third Navy ship named for the city of Richmond , Virginia. Built in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
USS Springfield was a Cleveland-class light cruiser of the United States Navy, which were built during World War II.The class was designed as a development of the earlier Brooklyn-class cruisers, the size of which had been limited by the First London Naval Treaty.
The Kronshtadt-class battlecruisers had their origin in a mid-1930s requirement for a large cruiser (Russian: bol'shoi kreiser) capable of destroying 10,000-long-ton (10,160 t) cruisers built to the limits imposed by the Washington Naval Treaty, of which the Soviets were not a signatory. Several designs were submitted by the end of 1935, but ...