List of United States Navy cruisers

This list of cruisers of the United States Navy includes all ships that were ever called "cruiser". Since the nomenclature predates the hull numbering system, and there were several confusing renumberings and renamings, there are multiple entries referring to the same physical ship.

A '*' following the entry indicates a ship that was cancelled before completion.

Heavy cruisers CA-149 and CA-151 to CA-153, and light cruisers CL-154 to CL-159 were cancelled before being named.

The missing numbers in the guided-missile cruiser series, 43-46, were not used so that DDG-47 "Ticonderoga" and DDG-48 "Yorktown" could be redesignated without re-numbering. It has been argued in some sources that the DDG-993 "Kidd" class guided missile destroyers, which were essentially identically armed to the non-VLS "Ticonderoga" class cruisers, should have been redesignated CG-43 through -46. Likewise, CG-13, CG-14 and CG-15 were skipped so the "Leahy"-class guided missile frigates (DLG-16 class) could be redesignated without renumbering.

CG-1 through 8 and CG-10 through 12 were converted from World War II cruisers. CAG-1 USS "Boston" and CAG-2 USS "Canberra" retained most of their World War II-vintage gun armament and were later returned to their gun cruiser designations CA-69 and CA-70. Before 30 June 1975, CG-16 USS Leahy through CGN-38 USS "Virginia" were designated DLG or DLGN (Guided Missile Frigate (Nuclear powered)). They were redesignated cruisers in the 1975 ship reclassification. CGN-39 USS "Texas" and CGN-40 USS "Mississippi" were laid down as DLGNs but redesignated CGN before commissioning. CG-47 "Ticonderoga" and CG-48 "Yorktown" were ordered as guided missile destroyers (DDG) but were redesignated to guided missile cruisers (CG) before any ship was laid down. CGN-9 "Long Beach", CGN-41 "Arkansas" and CG-49 through 74 were ordered, laid down and delivered as guided missile cruisers. "Long Beach" was the only cruiser since World War II built on a true "cruiser hull," and for over ten years was the only new-build guided missile cruiser in the fleet.

See also List of light cruisers of the United States.__TOC__

By hull number ---- Cruisers before hull designations * "Atlanta" (1884), protected cruiser * "Boston" (1884), protected cruiser * "Chicago" (1885), protected cruiser * "Harvard" (1888) * "Vesuvius" (1888) * "Badger" (1889) * "Panther" (1889) * "Yale" (1889) * "Prairie" (1890) * "Buffalo" (1892) * "Yankee" (1892) * "Yosemite" (1892) * "Dixie" (1893) * "St. Louis" (1894) * "St. Paul" (1895) * "New Orleans" (1896) * "Albany" (1899) * "Frankfurt" (1915) Armored Cruisers * (ACR-1) "Maine" later classed as a second class battleship * (ACR-2) "New York" * (ACR-3) "Brooklyn" * (ACR-4) "Pennsylvania" * (ACR-5) "West Virginia" * (ACR-6) "California" * (ACR-7) "Colorado" * (ACR-8) "Maryland" * (ACR-9) "South Dakota" * (ACR-10) "Tennessee" * (ACR-11) "Washington" * (ACR-12) "North Carolina" * (ACR-13) "Montana" Projected Battlecruisers * (CC-1) "Lexington" * (CC-2) "Constellation" * (CC-3) "Saratoga" * (CC-4) "Ranger" * (CC-5) "Constitution" * (CC-6) "United States" Protected cruisers * (C-1) "Newark" * (C-2) "Charleston" * (C-3) "Baltimore" * (C-4) "Philadelphia" * (C-5) "San Francisco" * (C-6) "Olympia" * (C-7) "Cincinnati" * (C-8) "Raleigh" * (C-9) "Montgomery" * (C-10) "Detroit" * (C-11) "Marblehead" * (C-12) "Columbia" * (C-13) "Minneapolis" * (C-14) "Denver" * (C-15) "Des Moines" * (C-16) "Chattanooga" * (C-17) "Galveston" * (C-18) "Tacoma" * (C-19) "Cleveland" * (C-20) "St. Louis" * (C-21) "Milwaukee" * (C-22) "Charleston" Battlecruisers/"Large" Cruisers * (CB-1) "Alaska" * (CB-2) "Guam" * (CB-3/CBC-1) "Hawaii" * * (CB-4) "Philippines" * * (CB-5) "Puerto Rico" * * (CB-6) "Samoa" * Heavy and Light cruisers * (CA-2) "Rochester" * (CA-3) "Brooklyn" * (CA-4) "Pittsburgh" * (CA-5) "Huntington" * (CA-6) "San Diego" * (CA-7) "Pueblo" * (CA-8) "Frederick" * (CA-9) "Huron" * (CA-10) "Memphis" * (CA-11) "Seattle" * (CA-12) "Charlotte" * (CA-13) "Missoula" * (CA-14) "Chicago" * (CA-15) "Olympia" * (CA-16) "Columbia" * (CA-17) "Minneapolis" * (CA-18) "St. Louis" * (CA-19) "Charleston" * (CL-1) "Chester" * (CL-2) "Birmingham" * (CL-3) "Salem" * (CL-4) "Omaha" * (CL-5) "Milwaukee" * (CL-6) "Cincinnati" * (CL-7) "Raleigh" * (CL-8) "Detroit" * (CL-9) "Richmond" * (CL-10) "Concord" * (CL-11) "Trenton" * (CL-12) "Marblehead" * (CL-13) "Memphis" * (CL-14) "Chicago" * (CL-15) "Olympia" * (CL-16) "Denver" * (CL-17) "Des Moines" * (CL-18) "Chattanooga" * (CL-19) "Galveston" * (CL-20) "Tacoma" * (CL-21) "Cleveland" * (CL-22) "New Orleans" * (CL-23) "Albany" * (CL/CA-24) "Pensacola" * (CL/CA-25) "Salt Lake City" * (CL/CA-26) "Northampton" * (CL/CA-27) "Chester" * (CL/CA-28) "Louisville" * (CL/CA-29) "Chicago" * (CL/CA-30) "Houston" * (CL/CA-31) "Augusta" * (CL/CA-32) "New Orleans" * (CL/CA-33) "Portland" * (CL/CA-34) "Astoria" * (CL/CA-35) "Indianapolis" * (CL/CA-36) "Minneapolis" * (CA-37) "Tuscaloosa" * (CA-38) "San Francisco" * (CA-39) "Quincy" * (CL-40) "Brooklyn" * (CL-41) "Philadelphia" * (CL-42) "Savannah" * (CL-43) "Nashville" * (CA-44) "Vincennes" * (CA-45) "Wichita" * (CL-46) "Phoenix" * (CL-47) "Boise" * (CL-48) "Honolulu" * (CL-49) "St. Louis" * (CL-50) "Helena" * (CLAA-51) "Atlanta" * (CLAA-52) "Juneau" * (CL/CLAA-53) "San Diego" * (CL/CLAA-54) "San Juan" * (CL-55) "Cleveland" * (CL-56) "Columbia" * (CL-57) "Montpelier" * (CL-58) "Denver" * (CL-59) "Amsterdam" * (CL-60) "Santa Fe" * (CL-61) "Tallahassee" * (CL-62) "Birmingham" * (CL-63) "Mobile" * (CL-64) "Vincennes" * (CL-65) "Pasadena" * (CL-66) "Springfield" * (CL-67) "Topeka" * (CA-68) "Baltimore" * (CA-69) "Boston" * (CA-70) "Canberra" * (CA-71) "Quincy" * (CA-72) "Pittsburgh" * (CA-73) "St. Paul" * (CA-74) "Columbus" * (CA-75) "Helena" * (CL-76) "New Haven" * (CL-77) "Huntington" * (CL-78) "Dayton" * (CL-79) "Wilmington" * (CL-80) "Biloxi" * (CL-81) "Houston" * (CL-82) "Providence" * (CL-83) "Manchester" * (CL-84) "Buffalo" cancelled 1940 * (CL-85) "Fargo" * (CL-86) "Vicksburg" * (CL-87) "Duluth" * (CL-88) "Newark" cancelled 1940 * (CL-89) "Miami" * (CL-90) "Astoria" * (CL-91) "Oklahoma City" * (CL-92) "Little Rock" * (CL-93) "Galveston" * (CL-94) "Youngstown" * * (CL/CLAA-95) "Oakland" * (CL/CLAA-96) "Reno" * (CL/CLAA-97) "Flint" * (CL/CLAA-98) "Tucson" * (CL-99) "Buffalo" * (CL-100) "Newark" * (CL-101) "Amsterdam" * (CL-102) "Portsmouth" * (CL-103) "Wilkes-Barre" * (CL-104) "Atlanta" * (CL-105) "Dayton" * (CL-106) "Fargo" * (CL-107) "Huntington" * (CL-108) "Newark" * * (CL-109) "New Haven" * * (CL-110) "Buffalo" * * (CL-111) "Wilmington" * * (CL-112) "Vallejo" * * (CL-113) "Helena" * * (CL-114) "Roanoke" * * CL-115 cancelled * (CL-116) "Tallahassee" * * (CL-117) "Cheyenne" * * (CL-118) "Chattanooga" * * (CL/CLAA-119) "Juneau" * (CL/CLAA-120) "Spokane" * (CL/CLAA-121) "Fresno" * (CA-122) "Oregon City" * (CA-123) "Albany" * (CA-124) "Rochester" * (CA-125) "Northampton" * * (CA-126) "Cambridge" * * (CA-127) "Bridgeport" * * (CA-128) "Kansas City" * * (CA-129) "Tulsa" * * (CA-130) "Bremerton" * (CA-131) "Fall River" * (CA-132) "Macon" * (CA-133) "Toledo" * (CA-134) "Des Moines" * (CA-135) "Los Angeles" * (CA-136) "Chicago" * (CA-137) "Norfolk" * * (CA-138) "Scranton" * * (CA-139) "Salem" * (CA-140) "Dallas" * * CA-141 cancelled * CA-142 cancelled * CA-143 cancelled * (CL-144) "Worcester" * (CL-145) "Roanoke" * (CL-146) "Vallejo" * * (CL-147) "Gary" * * (CA-148) "Newport News" * (CA-150) "Dallas" * Command cruisers * (CLC/CC-1) "Northampton" Guided missile cruisers * (CAG-1) "Boston" * (CAG-2) "Canberra" * (CLG-3) "Galveston" * (CLG/CG-4) "Little Rock" * (CLG/CG-5) "Oklahoma City" * (CLG/CG-6) "Providence" * (CLG/CG-7) "Springfield" * (CLG-8) "Topeka" * (CGN-9) "Long Beach" * (CG-10) "Albany" * (CG-11) "Chicago" * (CG-12) "Columbus" * CG-13 "Oregon City" conversion cancelled * CG-14 "Fall River" conversion cancelled * CG-15 skipped to redesignate the "Leahy" class frigates without renumbering * (CG-16) "Leahy" * (CG-17) "Harry E. Yarnell" * (CG-18) "Worden" * (CG-19) "Dale" * (CG-20) "Richmond K. Turner" * (CG-21) "Gridley" * (CG-22) "England" * (CG-23) "Halsey" * (CG-24) "Reeves" * (CGN-25) "Bainbridge" * (CG-26) "Belknap" * (CG-27) "Josephus Daniels" * (CG-29) "Jouett" * (CG-30) "Horne" * (CG-31) "Sterett" * (CG-32) "William H. Standley" * (CG-33) "Fox" * (CG-34) "Biddle" * (CGN-35) "Truxtun" * (CGN-36) "California" * (CGN-37) "South Carolina" * (CGN-38) "Virginia" * (CGN-39) "Texas" * (CGN-40) "Mississippi" * (CGN-41) "Arkansas" * CGN-42 cancelled unnamed * CG-43 to CG-46 skipped to allow redesignation of DDG-47 "Ticonderoga" without renumbering. * (CG-47) "Ticonderoga" * (CG-48) "Yorktown" * (CG-49) "Vincennes" * (CG-50) "Valley Forge" * (CG-51) "Thomas S. Gates" * (CG-52) "Bunker Hill" * (CG-53) "Mobile Bay" * (CG-54) "Antietam" * (CG-55) "Leyte Gulf" * (CG-56) "San Jacinto" * (CG-57) "Lake Champlain" * (CG-58) "Philippine Sea" * (CG-59) "Princeton" * (CG-60) "Normandy" * (CG-61) "Monterey" * (CG-62) "Chancellorsville" * (CG-63) "Cowpens" * (CG-64) "Gettysburg" * (CG-65) "Chosin" * (CG-66) "Hue City" * (CG-67) "Shiloh" * (CG-68) "Anzio" * (CG-69) "Vicksburg" * (CG-70) "Lake Erie" * (CG-71) "Cape St. George" * (CG-72) "Vella Gulf" * (CG-73) "Port Royal"

By name ---- * "Alaska" (CB-1) * "Albany" (1899) * "Albany" (CL-23) * "Albany" (CA-123) * "Albany" (CG-10) * "Amsterdam" (CL-59) * "Amsterdam" (CL-101) * "Antietam" (CG-54) * "Anzio" (CG-68) * "Arkansas" (CGN-41) * "Astoria" (CA-34) * "Astoria" (CL-90) * "Atlanta" (1884) * "Atlanta" (CLAA-51) * "Atlanta" (CL-104) * "Augusta" (CL/CA-31) * "Badger" (1889) * "Bainbridge" (CGN-25) * "Baltimore" (C-3) * "Baltimore" (CA-68) * "Belknap" (CG-26) * "Biddle" (CG-34) * "Biloxi" (CL-80) * "Birmingham" (CL-2) * "Birmingham" (CL-62) * "Boise" (CL-47) * "Boston" (1884) * "Boston" (CA-69) * "Boston" (CAG-1) * "Bremerton" (CA-130) * "Bridgeport" (CA-127) * * "Brooklyn" (ACR-3) * "Brooklyn" (CA-3) * "Brooklyn" (CL-40) * "Buffalo" (1892) * "Buffalo" (CL-84) cancelled 1940 * "Buffalo" (CL-99) * "Buffalo" (CL-110) * * "Bunker Hill" (CG-52) * "California" (ACR-6) * "California" (CGN-36) * "Cambridge" (CA-126) * * "Canberra" (CA-70/ CAG-2) * "Cape St. George" (CG-71) * "Chancellorsville" (CG-62) * "Charleston" (C-2) * "Charleston" (C-22) * "Charleston" (CA-19) * "Charlotte" (CA-12) * "Chattanooga" (C-16) * "Chattanooga" (CL-18) * "Chattanooga" (CL-118) * * "Chester" (CL-1) * "Chester" (CA-27) * "Cheyenne" (CL-117) * * "Chicago" (1885) * "Chicago" (CA/CL-14) * "Chicago" (CL/CA-29) * "Chicago" (CA-136) * "Chicago" (CG-11) * "Chosin" (CG-65) * "Cincinnati" (C-7) * "Cincinnati" (CL-6) * "Cleveland" (C-19) * "Cleveland" (CL-21) * "Cleveland" (CL-55) * "Colorado" (ACR-7) * "Columbia" (C-12) * "Columbia" (CA-16) * "Columbia" (CL-56) * "Columbus" (CA-74) * "Columbus" (CG-12) * "Concord" (CL-10) * "Constellation" (CC-2) * * "Constitution" (CC-5) * * "Cowpens" (CG-63) * "Dale" (CG-19) * "Dallas" (CA-140) * * "Dallas" (CA-150) * * "Dayton" (CL-78) * "Dayton" (CL-105) * "Denver" (C-14) * "Denver" (CL-16) * "Denver" (CL-58) * "Des Moines" (C-15) * "Des Moines" (CL-17) * "Des Moines" (CA-134) * "Detroit" (C-10) * "Detroit" (CL-8) * "Dixie" (1893) * "Duluth" (CL-87) * "England" (CG-22) * "Fall River" (CA-131) * "Fargo" (CL-85) * "Fargo" (CL-106) * "Flint" (CL-97) * "Fox" (CG-33) * "Frankfurt" (1915) * "Frederick" (CA-8) * "Fresno" (CL-121) * "Galveston" (C-17) * "Galveston" (CL-19) * "Galveston" (CL-93) * "Galveston" (CLG-3) * "Gary" (CL-147) * "Gettysburg" (CG-64) * "Gridley" (CG-21) * "Guam" (CB-2) * "Halsey" (CG-23) * "Harry E. Yarnell" (CG-17) * "Harvard" (1888) * "Hawaii" (CB-3) * * "Helena" (CL-50) * "Helena" (CA-75) * "Helena" (CL-113) * * "Honolulu" (CL-48) * "Horne" (CG-30) * "Houston" (CA-30) * "Houston" (CL-81) * "Hue City" (CG-66) * "Huntington" (CA-5) * "Huntington" (CL-77) * "Huntington" (CL-107) * "Huron" (CA-9) * "Indianapolis" (CA-35) * "Josephus Daniels" (CG-27) * "Jouett" (CG-29) * "Juneau" (CL-52) * "Juneau" (CL-119) * "Kansas City" (CA-128) * "Lake Erie" (CG-70) * "Lake Champlain" (CG-57) * "Leahy" (CG-16) * "Lexington" (CC-1) * "Leyte Gulf" (CG-55) * "Little Rock" (CG-4, ex CLG-4, ex-CL-92) * "Long Beach" (CGN-9) * "Los Angeles" (CA-135) * "Louisville" (CL/CA-28) * "Macon" (CA-132) * "Maine" (ACR-1) * "Manchester" (CL-83) * "Marblehead" (C-11) * "Marblehead" (CL-12) * "Maryland" (ACR-8) * "Memphis" (CA-10) * "Memphis" (CL-13) * "Miami" (CL-89) * "Milwaukee" (C-21) * "Milwaukee" (CL-5) * "Minneapolis" (C-13) * "Minneapolis" (CA-17) * "Minneapolis" (CA-36) * "Mississippi" (CGN-40) * "Missoula" (CA-13) * "Mobile" (CL-63) * "Mobile Bay" (CG-53) * "Montana" (ACR-13) * "Monterey" (CG-61) * "Montgomery" (C-9) * "Montpelier" (CL-57) * "Nashville" (CL-43) * "Newark" (C-1) * "Newark" (CL-88) cancelled 1940 * "Newark" (CL-100) * "Newark" (CL-108) * * "New Haven" (CL-76) * "New Haven" (CL-109) * * "New Orleans" (1896) * "New Orleans" (CL-22) * "New Orleans" (CL/CA-32) * "Newport News" (CA-148) * "New York" (ACR-2) * "Norfolk" (CA-137) * "Normandy" (CG-60) * "Northampton" (CA-26) * "Northampton" (CA-125) * * "Northampton" (CLC-1) * "North Carolina" (ACR-12) * "Oakland" (CL-95) * "Oklahoma City" (CL-91) * "Oklahoma City" (CLG/CG-5) * "Olympia" (C-6) * "Olympia" (CA-15) * "Olympia" (CL-15) * "Omaha" (CL-4) * "Oregon City" (CA-122) * "Panther" (1889) * "Pasadena" (CL-65) * "Pennsylvania" (ACR-4) * "Pensacola" (CL/CA-24) * "Philadelphia" (C-4) * "Philadelphia" (CL-41) * "Philippines" (CB-4) * * "Philippine Sea" (CG-58) * "Phoenix" (CL-46) * "Pittsburgh" (CA-4) * "Pittsburgh" (CA-72) * "Portland" (CL/CA-33) * "Port Royal" (CG-73) * "Portsmouth" (CL-102) * "Prairie" (1890) * "Princeton" (CG-59) * "Providence" (CL-82) * "Providence" (CLG/CG-6) * "Pueblo" (CA-7) * "Puerto Rico" (CB-5) * * "Quincy" (CA-39) * "Quincy" (CA-71) * "Raleigh" (C-8) * "Raleigh" (CL-7) * "Ranger" (CC-4) * * "Reeves" (CG-24) * "Reno" (CL-96) * "Richmond" (CL-9) * "Richmond K. Turner" (CG-20) * "Roanoke" (CL-114) * * "Roanoke" (CL-145) * "Rochester" (CA-2) * "Rochester" (CA-124) * "St. Louis" (1894) * "St. Louis" (C-20) * "St. Louis" (CA-18) * "St. Louis" (CL-49) * "St. Paul" (1895) * "St. Paul" (CA-73) * "Salem" (CL-3) * "Salem" (CA-139) * "Salt Lake City" (CL/CA-25) * "Samoa" (CB-6) * * "San Diego" (CA-6) * "San Diego" (CL-53) * "San Francisco" (C-5) * "San Francisco" (CA-38) * "San Jacinto" (CG-56) * "San Juan" (CL-54) * "Santa Fe" (CL-60) * "Saratoga" (CC-3) * "Savannah" (CL-42) * "Scranton" (CA-138) * * "Seattle" (CA-11) * "Shiloh" (CG-67) * "South Carolina" (CGN-37) * "South Dakota" (ACR-9) * "Spokane" (CL-120) * "Springfield" (CL-66) * "Springfield" (CLG/CG-7) * (CG-31) "Sterett" * "Tacoma" (C-18) * "Tacoma" (CL-20) * "Tallahassee" (CL-61) * "Tallahassee" (CL-116) * * "Tennessee" (ACR-10) * "Texas" (CGN-39) * "Thomas S. Gates" (CG-51) * "Ticonderoga" (CG-47) * "Toledo" (CA-133) * "Topeka" (CL-67) * "Topeka" (CLG-8) * "Trenton" (CL-11) * "Truxtun" (CGN-35) * "Tucson" (CL-98) * "Tulsa" (CA-129) * "Tuscaloosa" (CA-37) * "United States" (CC-6) * * "Vallejo" (CL-112) * * "Vallejo" (CL-146) * * "Valley Forge" (CG-50) * "Vella Gulf" (CG-72) * "Vesuvius" (1888) * "Vicksburg" (CL-86) * "Vicksburg" (CG-69) * "Vincennes" (CA-44) * "Vincennes" (CL-64) * "Vincennes" (CG-49) * "Virginia" (CGN-38) * "Washington" (ACR-11) * "West Virginia" (ACR-5) * "Wichita" (CA-45) * "Wilkes-Barre" (CL-103) * "William H. Standley" (CG-32) * "Wilmington" (CL-79) * "Wilmington" (CL-111) * * "Worcester" (CL-144) * "Worden" (CG-18) * "Yale" (1889) * "Yankee" (1892) * "Yorktown" (CG-48) * "Yosemite" (1892) * "Youngstown" (CL-94) * CL-115 cancelled unnamed * CA-141 cancelled unnamed * CA-142 cancelled unnamed * CA-143 cancelled unnamed * CG-13 conversion cancelled * CG-14 conversion cancelled * CG-15 skipped * CGN-42 cancelled unnamed * CG-43 to CG-46 skipped