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National classes[edit]

France[edit]

Germany[edit]

First World War and Interwar[edit]

Second World War[edit]

Large[edit]

Lützow-class [r]: Add brief definition or description

Heavy[edit]

Hipper-class [r]: Add brief definition or description

Light[edit]

Japan[edit]

First World War and Interwar[edit]

Second World War[edit]

Heavy[edit]

Mogami-class [r]: Add brief definition or description

Light[edit]

Russia[edit]

First World War and Interwar[edit]

Second World War[edit]

Heavy[edit]

Light[edit]

Cold War[edit]

Sverdlovsk-class [r]: Last all-gun light cruisers to be built; Soviet Union had unclear doctrine but ships were excellent for showing the flag ^[e]
Kara-class [r]: Add brief definition or description
Kresta-class [r]: Add brief definition or description

Current[edit]

Kirov-class [r]: Renamed the Admiral Ushakov-class under the Russian Federation, a Soviet class of large missile cruisers, probably the most potent surface warships built since WWII (excluding aircraft carriers) ^[e]
Slava-class [r]: Add brief definition or description

United Kingdom[edit]

First World War and Interwar[edit]

York-class [r]: Add brief definition or description
- HMS Exeter (1929) [r]: Add brief definition or description

Second World War[edit]

Heavy[edit]

Light[edit]

United States[edit]

First World War and Interwar[edit]

Heavy[edit]

Pensacola-class [r]: First post-WWI class of U.S. Navy heavy cruisers; 1925 design built in 1929-1930; treaty-limited at 9100 tons and lightly gunned, although had the range for Pacific operations ^[e]
Northampton-class [r]: 9000-ton U.S. Navy heavy cruisers built in 1930-31; 1926 redesign of Pensacola-class with increased armor and decreased armament; basis for Portland-class ^[e]
Portland-class [r]: Built in 1932-1933 under London Naval Treaty constraints, these 10,300 ton U.S. Navy heavy cruisers were originally near-copies of the Northampton-class, but last two ships were up-armored and last converted to Wichita-class; USS Indianapolis (CA-35), of this class, sunk with greatest single-ship loss of life in the U.S. Navy ^[e]
New Orleans-class [r]: 10,136 ton U.S. heavy cruisers designed, based on serious analysis of other countries' cruisers and a refinement of the Portland-class, built 1934-1937; well-armored although three were sunk in Battle of Savo Island ^[e]
Wichita-class [r]: Completed in 1939, a 10,600 ton single-ship heavy cruiser class of the United States Navy, design was essentially an upgunned, uparmored Brooklyn-class (light cruiser) that was the basis for the successful Baltimore-class, although the actual ship was a modified Northampton-class heavy cruiser ^[e]

Light[edit]

Omaha-class [r]: First U.S. cruisers built since 1905, a lightweight (7050 ton) class generally unsatisfactory except for high speed; succeeded by Brooklyn-class of 1938-1939 ^[e]
Brooklyn-class [r]: 9767-ton (i.e., compliant with the Washington Naval Treaty limit), U.S. light cruisers built in 1938-1939, heavily gunned to match the Japanese Mogami-class (before their upgrading to heavy cruisers) and with an effective armor scheme derived from New Orleans-class heavy cruisers, but had problems with engines ^[e]
St. Louis-class [r]: 10,000 ton U.S. light cruisers similar to the Brooklyn-class, fast, heavily gunned and armored, and with better machinery than the Brooklyns, but still a relatively flimsy hull; built 1938-1939 ^[e]

Second World War[edit]

Large[edit]

Alaska-class [r]: Two-ship class of 30,000 ton U.S. Navy "large cruisers" with 12" main battery, 27,500 ton displacement; not battlecruisers as sometimes described, but a bad design intended for carrier escort; essentially a super-Baltimore-class; strikingly attractive ships with no real role not better done by the Iowa-class ^[e]

Heavy[edit]

Light and AA[edit]

Cold War[edit]

During the Cold War, the U.S. Navy went through numerous renamings of cruiser-like ship types, eventually stabilizing in 1975, but having gone through calling them "frigates" much larger than today's ocean escort frigates, and destroyer leaders. Burke-class destroyers operational today are as large, or larger, than several of these classes.