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1994 Cruiser Achille Lauro destroyed by fire at Somalia, 4 die

1982 Falklands War: Argentine cruiser General Belgrano sunk by British submarine Conqueror, killing more than 350 men

1959 1st atomic powered cruiser, Long Beach, Quincy Massachusetts

1945 Philippines Sea: U.S. cruiser Indianapolis torpedoed/sinks, 880 die

1945 After delivering the Atomic Bomb across the Pacific, the cruiser USS Indianapolis is torpedoed and sunk by a Japanese submarine

1945 U.S. cruiser Indianapolis reaches Tinian with atom bomb

1945 Cruiser Indianapolis leaves San Francisco with atom bomb

1944 Japanese kamikaze crashes into U.S. cruiser Nashville, kills 138

1944 British dive bombers attack battle cruiser Tirpitz

1943 British sink German battle cruiser Scharnhorst

1943 New Zealand's Kiwi cruiser collides with Japanese sub I-1 at Guadalcanal

1942 "Queen Mary" slices cruiser "Curacao" in half, killing 338

1942 British cruiser Trinidad torpedoes itself in the Barents Sea

1942 German battle cruiser Gneisenau deactivated by bomb

1941 U-557 torpedoes British cruiser Galatea

1941 British cruiser Devonshire sinks German sub Python

1941 British cruiser Devonshire sinks German sub Atlantis

1941 Bismarck sinks British battle cruiser HMS Hood, 1,416 die 3 survive

1940 German cruiser Blucher torpedoed and capsizes in Oslofjord, 1,000 die

1931 Ironclad cruiser Germany launched in Kiel

1929 Cruiser Act: OKs construction of 19 new cruisers and an aircraft carrier

1922 Japanese cruiser Niitaka leaves in storm at Kamchatka, 300 killed

1916 Transportship Hsin-Yu and cruiser Hai-Yung collide; 1000 die

1916 British battle cruiser Invincible explodes, killing all but 6

1916 French cruiser "Admiral Charner" torpedoed off Syrian coast, kills 374

1915 Cromarty Harbour, Scot-British cruiser Natal explodes: 405 die

1915 Germany cruiser Konigsberg sinks off Dar-es-Salam

1915 German cruiser Dresden blows itself up near coast of Chile

1914 German battle cruiser Goeben enters Black Sea

1914 German battle cruiser Goeben reaches Dardanellen/Turkey joins Germany

1914 German submarine U-15 sinks British cruiser

1914 German battle cruiser Goeben leaves Messina

1895 Spanish cruiser Reina Regente sinks off Gibraltar, 402 die

1895 Spanish cruiser Reina Regenta sinks at Gibraltar, 400 killed

1864 Confederate cruiser The Georgia sold to The English

1863 Japanese battle cruiser shoots at Dutch warship Medusa, kills 4

1862 Confederate cruiser The Alabama runs aground near London


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