Allied Warships

Heavy cruisers

Royal Navy


The Cavendish class heavy cruiser HMS Frobisher (D 81) of the Royal Navy.

All Heavy cruiser classes (in service with the Royal Navy).

ClassCommissioned
 Cavendish (3)1919 - 1925
 Kent (7)1928 - 1928
 London (5)1929 - 1943
 Dorsetshire (2)1930 - 1930
 York (2)1930 - 1931

5 ship classes.


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: Heavy cruisers


 DateVesselClass

1940

Royal Navy18 May 1940HMS Effingham (D 98)Cavendish 

1941

Royal Navy26 Mar 1941HMS York (90)York 

1942

Royal Navy1 Mar 1942HMS Exeter (68)York 
US Navy1 Mar 1942USS Houston (i) (CA 30)Northampton 
Royal Navy5 Apr 1942HMS Cornwall (56)Kent 
Royal Navy5 Apr 1942HMS Dorsetshire (40)Dorsetshire 
Royal Australian Navy9 Aug 1942HMAS Canberra (D 33)Kent 
US Navy9 Aug 1942USS Astoria (i) (CA 34)New Orleans 
US Navy9 Aug 1942USS Quincy (i) (CA 39)New Orleans 
US Navy9 Aug 1942USS Vincennes (i) (CA 44)New Orleans 
French Navy27 Nov 1942FR ColbertSuffren 
French Navy27 Nov 1942FR FochSuffren 
US Navy1 Dec 1942USS Northampton (CA 26)Northampton 

1943

US Navy30 Jan 1943USS Chicago (i) (CA 29)Northampton 

1945

US Navy30 Jul 1945USS Indianapolis (CA 35)Portland 

15 Heavy cruisers lost. See all Allied Warship losses.

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