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Heavy cruisers CA-149 and CA-151 to CA-153, light cruisers CL-154 to CL-159, and nuclear guided missile cruiser CGN-42 were canceled before being named. Guided missile cruisers CG-1 through 8 and CG-10 through 12 were converted from World War II cruisers.
This is a list of cruisers, from 1860 to the present. It includes torpedo, unprotected, ... Light cruisers. La Argentina (1937) - Retired 1972; Brooklyn class.
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 ...
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In World War II light cruisers had guns ranging from the 5 inch (127 mm) of the US Atlanta-class and 5.25 inch of the British Dido-class anti-aircraft cruisers, up to 6.1 inch, though the most common size was 6 inch, the maximum size allowed by the London Naval Treaty for a ship to be considered a light cruiser. Most Japanese light cruisers had ...
List of light cruisers of the United States Navy; Subcategories. This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total. ...
In the mid-1930s, the Arethusa-class cruiser was the Royal Navy's latest light cruiser design, with the intention that it number six vessels. Following the new, heavily armed small cruisers of the United States Brooklyn and Japanese Mogami -classes , the last two planned ships, Minotaur and Polyphemus , were cancelled and re-ordered as a new ...
List of light cruisers of the United States Navy; W. List of cruisers of World War I; List of cruisers of World War II This page was last edited on 15 March 2013, at ...