Light cruisers
The Birmingham class light cruiser HMAS Adelaide (D 47) of the Royal Australian Navy.
All Light cruiser classes
The list is divided by navy, then ordered by commissioned date of each class (oldest first).
| Commissioned | ||
|---|---|---|
Brazilian Navy | ||
| Bahia (2) | 1910 - 1910 | |
French Navy | ||
| Duguay-Trouin (3) | 1926 - 1927 | |
| Jeanne d'Arc (1) | 1931 - 1931 | |
| Pluton (1) | 1931 - 1931 | |
| Emile Bertin (1) | 1935 - 1935 | |
| La Galissonniere (6) | 1936 - 1937 | |
Royal Australian Navy | ||
| Birmingham (1) | 1922 - 1922 | |
| Modified Leander (3) | 1935 - 1939 | |
Royal Navy | ||
| Ceres (5) | 1917 - 1918 | |
| Caledon (3) | 1917 - 1917 | |
| D (6) | 1918 - 1922 | |
| Carlisle (5) | 1918 - 1922 | |
| E (2) | 1926 - 1926 | |
| Leander (4) | 1934 - 1936 | |
| Arethusa (4) | 1935 - 1937 | |
| Southampton (5) | 1937 - 1937 | |
| Gloucester (3) | 1938 - 1939 | |
| Belfast (2) | 1939 - 1939 | |
| Dido (11) | 1940 - 1942 | |
| Fiji (9) | 1940 - 1943 | |
| Bellona (5) | 1943 - 1944 | |
| Minotaur (4) | 1944 - 1961 | |
Royal Dutch Navy | ||
| Java (2) | 1925 - 1926 | |
| De Ruyter (1) | 1936 - 1936 | |
| Tromp (2) | 1938 - 1941 | |
Italian Navy | ||
| Luigi Cadorna (1) | 1933 - 1933 | |
| Emanuele Filiberto Duca d'Aosta (2) | 1935 - 1936 | |
| Raimondo Montecuccoli (1) | 1935 - 1935 | |
| Giuseppe Garibaldi (2) | 1937 - 1937 | |
| Attilio Regolo (3) | 1942 - 1943 | |
US Navy | ||
| Omaha (9) | 1923 - 1925 | |
| Brooklyn (7) | 1937 - 1938 | |
| St. Louis (2) | 1939 - 1939 | |
| Cleveland (27) | 1942 - 1958 | |
Soviet Navy | ||
| Bogatyr (1) | 1905 - 1905 | |
| Chervona Ukraina (1) | 1927 - 1927 | |
| Krasnyi Krym (1) | 1928 - 1928 | |
| Kraznyi Kavkaz (1) | 1932 - 1932 | |
38 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: Light cruisers
35 Light cruisers lost. See all Allied Warship losses.
 Otto Kretschmer Lawrence Patterson |
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