Heavy cruisers

Royal Navy

The Dorsetshire class heavy cruiser HMS Norfolk (78) of the Royal Navy.

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

	Class	Commissioned
	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

	Date	Vessel	Class
1940
	18 May 1940	HMS Effingham (D 98)	Cavendish
1941
	26 Mar 1941	HMS York (90)	York
1942
	1 Mar 1942	HMS Exeter (68)	York
	1 Mar 1942	USS Houston (i) (CA 30)	Northampton
	5 Apr 1942	HMS Cornwall (56)	Kent
	5 Apr 1942	HMS Dorsetshire (40)	Dorsetshire
	9 Aug 1942	HMAS Canberra (D 33)	Kent
	9 Aug 1942	USS Astoria (i) (CA 34)	New Orleans
	9 Aug 1942	USS Quincy (i) (CA 39)	New Orleans
	9 Aug 1942	USS Vincennes (i) (CA 44)	New Orleans
	27 Nov 1942	FR Colbert	Suffren
	27 Nov 1942	FR Foch	Suffren
	1 Dec 1942	USS Northampton (CA 26)	Northampton
1943
	30 Jan 1943	USS Chicago (i) (CA 29)	Northampton
1945
	30 Jul 1945	USS Indianapolis (CA 35)	Portland