Cruisers under Construction 1 January 1930

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Cruisers under Construction 1 January 1930 – 31 December 1936

Europe/South America

Country	Name	Laid Down	Displacement	Main Armament
Italy	Bolzano	1930	10,890	8-8”
Italy	Luigi Cadorna Armando Diaz	1930	5,323	8-6”
Italy	Gorizia Pola	1930-31	11,680	8-8”
UK	Leander Neptune Orion Achilles Ajax	1930-33	6,985	8-6”
Italy	Raimondo Montecuccoli	1931	7,405	8-6”
France	Algerie	1931	10,000	8-8”
France	Emile Bertin	1931	5,886	9-6”
France	La Galissonniere Georges Leygues Gloire Jean de Vienne Marseillaise Montcalm	1931-33	7,600	9-6”
Italy	Duca d’Aosta Eugenio di Savoia	1932-33	8,317	8-6”
Italy	Abruzzi Giuseppe Garibaldi	1933	9,440	10-6”
Netherlands	De Ruyter	1933	6,442	7-5.9”
UK/Australia	Sydney Perth Hobart	1933	6,830	8-6”
Germany	Nürnberg	1933	6,980	9-5.9”
UK	Arethusa Galatea Penelope Aurora	1933-35	5,220-5,354	6-6”
UK	Southampton Newcastle Birmingham Glasgow Sheffield Liverpool Manchester Gloucester	1934-36	9,100	12-6”
Germany	Admiral Hipper Blucher Prinz Eugen Seydlitz	1935-36	14,247	8-8”
USSR	Kirov Voroshilov Maksim Gorky	1935-36	7,756	9-7.1”
Netherlands	Tromp	1936	3,450	6-5.9”
Argentina	La Argentina	1936	6,500	9-6”
UK	Edinburgh Belfast	1936	10,550	12-6”

USA/Japan

Country	Name	Laid Down	Displacement	Main Armament
USA	Portland	1930	10,258	9-8”
USA	New Orleans Astoria Minneapolis Tuscaloosa San Francisco Quincy Vincennes	1930-34	10,136	9-8”
Japan	Mogami Mikuma Suzuya Kumano	1931-34	8,500	15-6.1”
Japan	Tone Chikuma	1934-35	11,215	15-6.1”
USA	Brooklyn Philadelphia Savannah Nashville Phoenix Boise Honolulu St Louis Helena	1934-36	9,767	15-6”
USA	Wichita	1935	10,589	9-8”

Source: R Chesneau (ed), 1980, Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922-1946, Conway Maritime Press, London.