Light cruisers

Polish Navy

The light cruiser ORP Dragon of the D class. She was lost on 8 Jul 1944.

All Light cruiser classes (in service with the Polish Navy).

	Class	Commissioned
	D (2)	1943 - 1944

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), those ships are not visible here but only through the navies pages or by looking into each class.

War losses: Light cruisers

	Date	Vessel	Class
1939
	13 Sep 1939	FR Pluton	Pluton
1940
	18 May 1940	HMS Effingham (D 98)	Cavendish
	26 May 1940	HMS Curlew (D 42)	Ceres
	12 Jun 1940	HMS Calypso (D 61)	Caledon
1941
	11 Jan 1941	HMS Southampton (83)	Southampton
	31 Mar 1941	HMS Bonaventure (31)	Dido
	22 May 1941	HMS Fiji (58)	Fiji
	22 May 1941	HMS Gloucester (62)	Gloucester
	1 Jun 1941	HMS Calcutta (D 82)	Cairo
	12 Nov 1941	USSR Chervona Ukraina	Chervona Ukraina
	19 Nov 1941	HMAS Sydney (D 48)	Perth
	24 Nov 1941	HMS Dunedin (D 93)	D
	15 Dec 1941	HMS Galatea (71)	Arethusa
	19 Dec 1941	HMS Neptune (20)	Leander
1942
	27 Feb 1942	HNMS Java	Java
	28 Feb 1942	HNMS De Ruyter	De Ruyter
	1 Mar 1942	HMAS Perth (D 29)	Perth
	11 Mar 1942	HMS Naiad (93)	Dido
	2 May 1942	HMS Edinburgh (16)	Belfast
	15 May 1942	HMS Trinidad (46)	Fiji
	16 Jun 1942	HMS Hermione (74)	Dido
	12 Aug 1942	HMS Cairo (D 87)	Cairo
	13 Aug 1942	HMS Manchester (15)	Gloucester
	14 Sep 1942	HMS Coventry (D 43)	Ceres
	2 Oct 1942	HMS Curacoa (D 41)	Ceres
	8 Nov 1942	FR Primauguet	Duguay-Trouin
	27 Nov 1942	FR Jean de Vienne	La Galissonniere
	27 Nov 1942	FR La Galissonniere	La Galissonniere
	27 Nov 1942	FR Marseillaise	La Galissonniere
1943
	6 Jul 1943	USS Helena (i) (CL 50)	St. Louis
	23 Oct 1943	HMS Charybdis (88)	Dido
1944
	29 Jan 1944	HMS Spartan (95)	Bellona
	18 Feb 1944	HMS Penelope (97)	Arethusa
	9 Jun 1944	HMS Durban (D 99)	D
	8 Jul 1944	ORP Dragon (D 46)	D
1945
	4 Jul 1945	BZ Bahia (C 12)	Bahia