Allied Warships

Heavy cruisers

The Wichita class heavy cruiser USS Wichita (CA 45) of the US Navy.

All Heavy cruiser classes

The list is divided by navy, then ordered by commissioned date of each class (oldest first).

		Commissioned
French Navy
	Duquesne (2)	1928 - 1928
	Suffren (4)	1930 - 1932
	Algérie (1)	1934 - 1934
Royal Navy
	Cavendish (3)	1919 - 1925
	Kent (7)	1928 - 1928
	London (4)	1929 - 1943
	Dorsetshire (2)	1930 - 1930
	York (2)	1930 - 1931
US Navy
	Pensacola (2)	1929 - 1930
	Northampton (6)	1930 - 1931
	Portland (2)	1932 - 1933
	New Orleans (7)	1934 - 1937
	Wichita (1)	1939 - 1939
	Baltimore (14)	1943 - 1946
Soviet Navy
	Kirov (Project 26) (2)	1938 - 1940
	Maxim Gorkiy (Project 26-bis) (4)	1940 - 1944

16 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