1994 Event Cruiser Achille Lauro destroyed by fire at Somalia, 4 die 1982 Event Falklands War: Argentine cruiser General Belgrano sunk by British submarine Conqueror, killing more than 350 men 1959 Event 1st atomic powered cruiser, Long Beach, Quincy Massachusetts 1945 Event Philippines Sea: U.S. cruiser Indianapolis torpedoed/sinks, 880 die 1945 Event After delivering the Atomic Bomb across the Pacific, the cruiser USS Indianapolis is torpedoed and sunk by a Japanese submarine 1945 Event U.S. cruiser Indianapolis reaches Tinian with atom bomb 1945 Event Cruiser Indianapolis leaves San Francisco with atom bomb 1944 Event Japanese kamikaze crashes into U.S. cruiser Nashville, kills 138 1944 Event British dive bombers attack battle cruiser Tirpitz 1943 Event British sink German battle cruiser Scharnhorst 1943 Event New Zealand's Kiwi cruiser collides with Japanese sub I-1 at Guadalcanal 1942 Event "Queen Mary" slices cruiser "Curacao" in half, killing 338 1942 Event British cruiser Trinidad torpedoes itself in the Barents Sea 1942 Event German battle cruiser Gneisenau deactivated by bomb 1941 Event U-557 torpedoes British cruiser Galatea 1941 Event British cruiser Devonshire sinks German sub Python 1941 Event British cruiser Devonshire sinks German sub Atlantis 1941 Event Bismarck sinks British battle cruiser HMS Hood, 1,416 die 3 survive 1940 Event German cruiser Blucher torpedoed and capsizes in Oslofjord, 1,000 die 1931 Event Ironclad cruiser Germany launched in Kiel 1929 Event Cruiser Act: OKs construction of 19 new cruisers and an aircraft carrier 1922 Event Japanese cruiser Niitaka leaves in storm at Kamchatka, 300 killed 1916 Event Transportship Hsin-Yu and cruiser Hai-Yung collide; 1000 die 1916 Event British battle cruiser Invincible explodes, killing all but 6 1916 Event French cruiser "Admiral Charner" torpedoed off Syrian coast, kills 374 1915 Event Cromarty Harbour, Scot-British cruiser Natal explodes: 405 die 1915 Event Germany cruiser Konigsberg sinks off Dar-es-Salam 1915 Event German cruiser Dresden blows itself up near coast of Chile 1914 Event German battle cruiser Goeben enters Black Sea 1914 Event German battle cruiser Goeben reaches Dardanellen/Turkey joins Germany 1914 Event German submarine U-15 sinks British cruiser 1914 Event German battle cruiser Goeben leaves Messina 1895 Event Spanish cruiser Reina Regente sinks off Gibraltar, 402 die 1895 Event Spanish cruiser Reina Regenta sinks at Gibraltar, 400 killed 1864 Event Confederate cruiser The Georgia sold to The English 1863 Event Japanese battle cruiser shoots at Dutch warship Medusa, kills 4 1862 Event Confederate cruiser The Alabama runs aground near London
