Allied Warships

Heavy cruisers


The heavy cruiser HMAS Shropshire of the London class.

All Heavy cruisers classes. The list is divided by navy, then ordered by number of ships of that class.


French Navy

 Suffren (4)
 Duquesne (2)
 Algérie (1)

Royal Navy

 Kent (7)
 London (5)
 Cavendish (2)
 Dorsetshire (2)
 York (2)

US Navy

 Baltimore (18)
 New Orleans (7)
 Northampton (6)
 Pensacola (2)
 Portland (2)
 Wichita (1)

Soviet Navy

 Maxim Gorkiy (Project 26-bis) (4)
 Kirov (Project 26) (2)


Please note that we list the classes by navies that initiated/owned the class. Often vessels of certain classes were then built for other nations (or lent), that is not visible here but only through the navies pages or by looking into each class.

War losses: Heavy cruisers


 DateVesselClass

1941

26 Mar 1941HMS York (90)York 

1942

1 Mar 1942HMS Exeter (68)York 
1 Mar 1942USS Houston (i) (CA 30)Northampton 
5 Apr 1942HMS Cornwall (56)Kent 
5 Apr 1942HMS Dorsetshire (40)Dorsetshire 
9 Aug 1942HMAS Canberra (D 33)Kent 
9 Aug 1942USS Astoria (i) (CA 34)New Orleans 
9 Aug 1942USS Quincy (i) (CA 39)New Orleans 
9 Aug 1942USS Vincennes (i) (CA 44)New Orleans 
27 Nov 1942FR ColbertSuffren 
27 Nov 1942FR FochSuffren 
1 Dec 1942USS Northampton (CA 26)Northampton 

1943

30 Jan 1943USS Chicago (i) (CA 29)Northampton 

1945

30 Jul 1945USS Indianapolis (CA 35)Portland 

14 Heavy cruisers lost. See all Allied Warship losses.

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Left for dead

Pete Nelson

Books dealing with this subject include:

Abandon Ship!, Newcomb, Richard F., 2000
Battle to Save the Houston, Miller, John Grider, 2000
The Heavy Cruiser Takao, Skulski, Janusz, 1994
In Harm's Way, Stanton, Doug, 2001
The Iron Pirate, Reeman, Douglas, 1987
Left for dead, Pete Nelson, 2003
The Bode Testament, Sandy Shanks, 2001
The Tragic Fate of the U.S.S. Indianapolis, Lech, Raymond B., 2001



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