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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.
List of cruisers of Germany. Kaiserin Augusta and Seeadler, two of Germany's earliest cruisers, in New York in 1893. Starting in the 1880s, the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy) began building a series of cruisers. The first designs— protected and unprotected —were ordered to replace aging sail and steam-powered frigates and ...
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 forced their redesignation. Heavy cruisers continued in use until after World War II.
List Click on headers to sort columns. List of cruisers of World War I Ship Operator Class Type Displacement (tons) First commissioned Fate Achilles Royal Navy Warrior armored cruiser 13,550 22 April 1907 sold for scrap 9 May 1921 Adamastor Portuguese Navy unprotected cruiser 1,729 3 August 1897 decommissioned 16 October 1933, scrapped April 1934 Admiral Makarov Imperial Russian Navy Bayan ...
Unprotected cruisers. Circé (1860) Cosmao class. Cosmao (1861) Dupleix (1861) Armorique (1862) Talisman (1862) Flore (1869) Limier class.
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.
Puglia (1898) - Stricken 1923, front of ship preserved at Gardone. Calabria (1894) - Stricken 1924. Libia (1912) - Built for the Ottoman Empire as Drama. Seized by Italy 1911, BU 1937. Quarto (1911) - Sold 1938, BU after 1939. Nino Bixio class. Nino Bixio (1911) - Stricken 1929, BU. Marsala (1912) - Stricken 1927, BU. Campania class.
List of light cruisers of Germany. The German navies—specifically the Kaiserliche Marine, Reichsmarine, and Kriegsmarine —built a series of light cruisers between the 1890s and 1940s. The authorization for a major construction program for light cruisers came in the 1898 Naval Law, which ordered the acquisition of thirty vessels of the type. [1]