The heavy cruiser USS Newport News was designated flagship for the blockade, with the USS Leary ( DD-879 ) as Newport News destroyer escort.

* 1942 – The heavy cruiser is sunk in the Battle of Sunda Strait with 693 crew members killed, along with which lost 375 men.

* was an Admiral-class battlecruiser launched in 1918 and sunk in 1941 by the German battleship Bismarck and heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen in the Battle of the Denmark Strait.

* 1945 – World War II: The heavy cruiser leaves San Francisco with parts for the atomic bomb " Little Boy " bound for Tinian Island.

The Soviets were to receive a naval cruiser, the plans to the battleship Bismarck, heavy naval guns, other naval gear and thirty of Germany's latest warplanes, including the Me-109 and Me-110 fighters and Ju-88 bomber.

After Operation Weserübung, as the invasion of Norway had been code-named, the Kriegsmarine had only one heavy cruiser, two light cruisers and four destroyers available for operations.

* July 30 – WWII: The heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis is hit and sunk by torpedoes from the Japanese submarine I-58 in the Philippine Sea.

* August 7 – President Harry Truman announces the successful bombing of Hiroshima with the atomic bomb, while returning from the Potsdam Conference aboard the U. S. Navy heavy cruiser in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.

* USS Birmingham ( CL-62 ), a light cruiser, in service from 1943 to 1946 and involved in heavy fighting in the Pacific Ocean during World War II

Patton and his staff arrived in Morocco aboard the heavy cruiser USS Augusta, which came under fire from the Vichy French battleship Jean Bart while entering the harbor of Casablanca.

On November 5, 1940, the German heavy cruiser Admiral Scheer encountered the convoy.

At the end of Weserübung, the Kriegsmarine had only one heavy cruiser, two light cruisers and four destroyers available for operations.

At that point, Admiral Lütjens advised cancelling the operation as having one battleship with only one heavy cruiser in support operating alone in the Atlantic was too risky, but was overruled by Raeder who insisted on going ahead.

* The USS Chester ( CA-27 ), a heavy cruiser commissioned in 1930

*, was a heavy cruiser commissioned in 1937 and lost in the Battle of Savo Island in 1942

The cruiser Dmitri Donskoy fought against six Japanese cruisers and survived ; however, due to heavy damage she was scuttled.

* Admiral Hipper, a heavy cruiser

* USS Newport News ( CA-148 ) a heavy cruiser that served in the Atlantic Fleet and also in several deployments during the Vietnam War

The fortress fired at the invaders, causing damage to the pocket battleship Lützow and sinking the heavy cruiser Blücher, with heavy German losses that included many of the armed forces, Gestapo agents, and administrative personnel who were to have occupied the Norwegian capital.

The main products today are the heavy duty Ural sidecar motorcycles designed for rough Russian roads, and the cruiser Wolf and Solo.

The Royal Navy Hawkins-class heavy cruiser HMS Frobisher was named after him.

The artillery pieces inflicted heavy damage on the German heavy cruiser Blücher, which was subsequently sunk by torpedoes fired from Oscarsborg's land based torpedo battery.

Although there were several German attempts to capture or kill the King and the Norwegian government, they managed to evade these attempts and traveled through Norway's remote interior until leaving the country for London on the British heavy cruiser on the seventh of June.

* 1863 – American Civil War: The Siege of Vicksburg – ships led by Union Admiral David Dixon Porter move through heavy Confederate artillery fire on approach to Vicksburg, Mississippi.

* 1657 – Admiral Robert Blake destroys a Spanish silver fleet under heavy fire at Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

** Anglo-Spanish War: Admiral Robert Blake destroys a Spanish silver fleet under heavy fire at Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

The rest of Admiral Drake's squadron also suffered heavy damage, but the casualties were not as severe as those taken on the first two ships.

Meanwhile, the Dutch also lost formerly occupied Baia de Todos os Santos, Salvador de Bahia, 12 ° 48 ′ S 38 ° 38 ′ W in Brazil, 1 May 1625, under the heavy attacks of the Spanish – Portuguese Fleet, commanded by the Captain General of the Spanish Navy, since 1617, Admiral Fadrique II de Toledo Osorio y Mendoza ( Naples, Italy, May 1580 – 11 December 1634 ), 1st Marquis of Villanueva de Valdueza, and, since 17 January 1624, Knight of the Order of Santiago.

On March 1, 1942, the Battle of Sunda Strait-part of the larger Battle of the Java Sea-took place when the Allied cruisers HMAS Perth and USS Houston encountered a Japanese amphibious landing force near Bantam commanded by Rear Admiral Kenzaburo Hara, which included a light cruiser and eleven destroyers, four heavy cruisers and a light aircraft carrier.

* Admiral Graf Spee played by heavy cruiser

In May 1941 served as the escort to HMS Ark Royal during the sinking of the battleship Bismarck, and on 31 December 1942, Sheffield and Jamaica jointly attacked and drove off the pocket battleship Lützow ( sister ship to the Graf Spee ), and the heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper, at the Battle of the Barents Sea, when the Germans attempted to intercept a large convoy to Murmansk.

The battle turned out to be a heavy English defeat, forcing the English to rethink their naval strategy, led by Admiral Sir Henry Vane and an Admiralty Committee, including developing a tactic that would mark naval warfare for the following century.

Admiral Iachino deployed his ships in three columns and used smoke, searchlights and a heavy barrage to protect Vittorio Veneto.

The Northern Force of Admiral Ozawa was built around the remaining Japanese aircraft carriers, now weakened by the heavy loss of trained pilots.

The Center Force commanded by Vice Admiral Takeo Kurita was located October 23 coming through the Palawan Passage by two American submarines, which attacked the force, sinking two heavy cruisers and damaging a third.

The Chinese severely damaged four Japanese warships — the Japanese flagship Matsushima suffered the worst single-ship loss with more than 100 dead or wounded after being hit by a heavy Chinese round ; Hiei being severely damaged and retired from the conflict ; Akagi suffering from heavy fire and with great loss of life ; Saikyo, the converted liner, urged on by Admiral Kabayama Sukenori despite its lack of offensive armament, had been hit by four 12 inch ( 305 mm ) shells and was sailing virtually out of control as a result — did cosmetic damage to two more, and killed about 180 Japanese sailors and wounded 200 more.

The transports were guarded by light cruiser, eight destroyers, and four patrol boats, led by Rear Admiral Raizo Tanaka ( flag in Jintsu ) Also departing from Rabaul to help protect the convoy was a " Close Cover force " of four heavy cruisers from the 8th Fleet, commanded by Vice Admiral Gunichi Mikawa.

These ships were basically divided into three groups: the " Main Body " contained the Japanese carriers — and, light carrier, and a screening force of one heavy cruiser and eight destroyers, commanded by Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo in Shōkaku ; the " Vanguard Force " consisted of two battleships, three heavy cruisers, one light cruiser, and three destroyers, commanded by Rear Admiral Hiroaki Abe ; the " Advanced Force " contained five heavy cruisers, one light cruiser, six destroyers, and the seaplane carrier, commanded by Vice Admiral Nobutake Kondō.

The admiral was commemorated in the renascent Kriegsmarine by the heavy cruiser Admiral Scheer, built in the 1930s.

The place of the vote was the German heavy cruiser Admiral Scheer, which anchored in the harbour of Gaeta.

Shortly before the commencement of " Sea Lion ", the heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper ( Kapitän zur See Wilhelm Meisel ), on standby at Kiel from 13 September 1940, would carry out a diversionary sortie in the vicinity of Iceland and the Faroes.