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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 12 Ticonderoga -class cruisers in active service, as of 28 June 2024, with the last tentatively scheduled for decommissioning in 2027. With the cancellation of the CG (X) program in 2010 ...
The US Navy's main impetus for the Alaska class was the threat posed by Japanese cruisers raiding its lines of communication in the event of war. Heavy cruisers were also the most likely surface threat to aircraft carriers making independent raids, so a cruiser-killer was also an ideal carrier escort. [3]
HMS Frobisher, a Hawkins-class cruiser around which the Washington Naval Treaty limits for heavy cruisers were written. A heavy cruiser was a type of cruiser, a naval warship designed for long range and high speed, armed generally with naval guns of roughly 203 mm (8 inches) in calibre, whose design parameters were dictated by the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and the London Naval Treaty of ...
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 Baltimores 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 three ships of the Oregon City sub-class.
The first heavy cruisers were built in 1915, although it only became a widespread classification following the London Naval Treaty in 1930. The heavy cruiser's immediate precursors were the light cruiser designs of the 1910s and 1920s; the US 8-inch 'treaty cruisers' of the 1920s were originally classed as light cruisers until the London Treaty ...
The Des Moines-class cruisers were a trio of U.S. Navy heavy cruisers commissioned in 1948 and 1949. Largely based on the earlier Baltimore -class heavy cruisers, [3] the Des Moines -class featured improved torpedo protection and heavier anti-aircraft armament. Relatively well- armored and protected, [4] the class was unique in that it mounted ...
B. Bainbridge-class cruisers (2 P) Baltimore-class cruisers (2 C, 17 P) Belknap-class cruisers (11 P) Brooklyn-class cruisers (4 C, 11 P)
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.