List of cruisers

This is a list of cruisers, from 1860 to the present. It includes protected, light, armoured, battle-, heavy and missile cruisers. Dates are launching dates.

Argentina

 * Patagonia (1885)
 * Necochea (1890) - Renamed Veinticinco de Mayo
 * Nueve de Julio (1892)
 * Buenos Aires (1895)
 * Patria (1893) Light cruiser of the British Dryad class BU 1927
 * Italian Giuseppe Garibaldi class
 * ARA Garibaldi (1895)
 * ARA San Martín (1896)
 * ARA General Belgrano (1896)
 * ARA Pueyrredón (1897)
 * Veinticinco de Mayo class
 * ARA Veinticinco de Mayo (1929) - BU 1962
 * ARA Almirante Brown (1929) - BU 1962
 * La Argentina (1939) - BU 1974
 * Brooklyn class
 * Nueve De Julio (1951) - Scrapped 1978
 * ARA General Belgrano (1951) - Sunk 1982 in the Falklands War

Australia

 * Small cruisers
 * HMAS Protector (1883/84, South Australia) - Abandoned aground c. 1943
 * HMAS Encounter (1902) - Scuttled 1932
 * British Chatham class
 * Sydney (1912) - BU 1929
 * Melbourne (1912) - BU 1929
 * Brisbane (1915) - Sold for BU 1936
 * Adelaide (1918) - BU 1949
 * Light cruisers
 * British Leander (Apollo) class
 * Perth (1934) - Sunk 1942
 * Sydney (1934) - Sunk 1941
 * Hobart (1934) - BU 1962
 * Battlecruiser
 * Australia (1911) - Scuttled 1924
 * Heavy cruisers
 * British County class
 * Australia (1927) - BU 1955
 * Canberra (1927) - Sunk 1942
 * Shropshire (1927) - BU 1955

Austria-Hungary

 * Armored cruisers
 * SMS Kaiserin und Königin Maria Theresia (1895)
 * SMS Kaiser Karl VI (1898)
 * SMS Sankt Georg (1903)


 * Protected cruisers
 * Kaiser Franz Joseph I-class cruiser
 * SMS Kaiser Franz Joseph I
 * SMS Kaiserin Elisabeth
 * Light cruisers
 * Zenta-class cruiser
 * SMS Zenta
 * SMS Aspern
 * SMS Szigetvár
 * SMS Admiral Spaun (1910)
 * Novara-class cruiser
 * Saida (1914)
 * Helgoland (1914)
 * SMS Novara (1912) (1915)
 * Torpedo cruisers
 * Leopard-class cruiser
 * SMS Leopard
 * SMS Panther (1885)
 * SMS Tiger (1887)
 * SMS Lussin

Brazil

 * Almirante Tamandaré (1890), named after the Marquis of Tamandaré
 * Benjamin Constant (1892)
 * Republica (1892)
 * Almirante Barroso (1896)
 * Bahia-class cruiser
 * BRAZILIAN CRUISER Bahia (1910) - Lost 1945
 * BRAZILIAN CRUISER Rio Grande do Sul (1910) - BU 1948
 * Brooklyn-class cruiser
 * Almirante Barroso (1951) - later renamed Barroso
 * Almirante Tamandaré (1951) - later renamed Tamandaré

Canada

 * Protected cruiser
 * British Apollo class
 * British Diadem class
 * Niobe (1897, ex-British Niobe, obtained 1910) - BU 1922
 * HMCS Rainbow (1891) (1891, ex-British Rainbow, obtained 1910) - Sold 1920
 * Light cruisers
 * British Arethusa class
 * Aurora
 * British Ceylon class
 * Uganda (1941) - Renamed Quebec, BU 1961
 * British Minotaur class
 * Ontario (was HMS Minotaur) (1943) - BU 1960

Chile

 * (Arturo Prat) (1880) - To Japan before delivery, renamed Tsukushi, BU 1910?
 * Esmeralda (1883) - To Japan, renamed Idzumi, discarded 1912
 * Presidente Errazuriz class
 * Presidente Errazuriz (1890) - Discarded c. 1920
 * Presidente Pinto (1890) - Discarded c. 1910
 * Blanco Encalada (1893) - Discarded 1946
 * Ministro Zenteno (1896) - Discarded 1931
 * Chacabuco (1898) - Stricken 1959
 * Armored cruisers
 * Esmeralda (1894) - Discarded 1929
 * O'Higgins (1897) - Discarded 1946/54
 * Light cruisers
 * Brooklyn class
 * O'Higgins
 * Capitán Prat

China

 * Chao Yung class
 * Chao Yung (1880) - Sunk 1894
 * Yang Wei (1881) - Sunk 1894
 * Chi Yuan (1883) - Captured by Japan 1895, renamed Sai Yen, mined 1904
 * Kai Che class
 * Kai Che (1882) - Explosion 1902
 * King Ch'ing (1886)
 * Huan T'ai (1886) - Collision 1902
 * Nan Thin class
 * Nan Thin (1883)
 * Nan Shuin (1884)
 * Fu Ch'ing (1893) - Storm 1898
 * Chih Yuan class
 * Chih Yuan (1886) - Sunk 1894
 * Ching Yuan (1886) - Sunk 1895
 * King Yuan class
 * King Yuan (1887) - Sunk 1894
 * Lai Yuan (1887) - Sunk 1895
 * Lung Wei (1888) - Renamed Ping Yuen
 * Tung Chi class
 * Tung Chi (1895) - Sunk 1937
 * Fu An (1894)
 * Hai Tien class, 4,300 ton, Armstrong
 * Hai Tien (1897) - Sunk 1904
 * Hai Chi (1898) - Sunk 1937 as blockship in Yangtze river
 * Hai Yung class
 * Hai Yung (1897) - Sunk 1937 as blockship in Yangtze river
 * Hai Chou (1897) - Sunk 1937 as blockship in Yangtze river
 * Hai Shen (1898) "Pearl of the Sea" - Sunk 1937 as blockship in Yangtze river
 * Chao Ho class
 * Chao Ho (1912) - Sunk 1937.
 * Ying Swei (1913) - Sunk 1937.
 * Ning Hai class
 * Ning Hai (1931) - Sunk 1937. Re-floated by Japan and renamed Ioshima, Sunk by USS Shad(SS-235).
 * Ping Hai (1931) - Sunk 1937. Re-floated by Japan and ranamed Yasoshima. Sunk by US aircraft attack.
 * Chung King class
 * Chung King (1948) - Arethusa-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy HMS Aurora (12), sold on May 19, 1948 to the Nationalist Chinese Navy, Defected to Chinese Communists and then sunk by Nationalist aircraft in 1949, Continued in service as an accommodations and warehouse hulk until mid-1950s

Denmark

 * Fyen (1882)
 * Valkyrien (1888)
 * Hekla (1890)
 * Gejser class
 * Gejser (1892)
 * Heimdal (1894)

Germany

 * List of battlecruisers of Germany
 * List of cruisers of Germany

Greece

 * Amalia (1861) - Renamed Hellas 1862, BU 1906
 * Navarchos Miaoulis (1879) - Sold 1931
 * Elli (1912, purchased 1914) - Torpedoed by Italian submarine 1940
 * Georgios Averof (1910) - Italian Pisa class, preserved at Faliro as museum
 * Elli II (1935, ex-Italian Eugenio di Savoia, obtained in 1951 as war reparations) - Stricken 1964

Haití

 * Triumph - EX USS Atlanta, sunk in heavy seas 1869

India

 * INS Delhi (purchased 1948), decommissioned, the former British ''Leander class cruiser HMNZS Achilles
 * INS Mysore (purchased 1957), decommissioned, the former British Crown Colony-class cruiser HMS Nigeria (60)

New Zealand

 * HMNZS Achilles (70) - Formerly British Achilles
 * HMNZS Leander - Formerly British Leander

Norway

 * Protected cruisers
 * Viking (1891)
 * Frithjof (1896)

Pakistan

 * PNS Babur (purchased 1956), the former British Dido-class cruiser HMS Diadem (84), renamed Jahangir, c. 1961

Peru

 * Former merchant ships
 * Sócrates class (ex-Portuguese)
 * Sócrates (1880) - Renamed Lima
 * Diógenes (1881) - Renamed Callao, not delivered, purchased by the United States in 1889 as USS Topeka
 * Light cruisers
 * Almirante Grau class
 * BAP Almirante Grau (1906)
 * BAP Coronel Bolognesi (1906)
 * Crown Colony class
 * BAP Coronel Bolognesi (1942, ex-British HMS Ceylon)
 * BAP Capitán Quiñones (1941, ex-British HMS Newfoundland)
 * De Ruyter class
 * BAP Almirante Grau (1944, ex-Dutch HNLMS De Ruyter)
 * BAP Aguirre (1950, ex-Dutch HNLMS De Zeven Provinciën)

Poland

 * British D class
 * Dragon
 * Conrad

Portugal

 * Adamastor (1896) - Sold 1933
 * São Gabriel class
 * São Gabriel (1898) - Disposed of 1924
 * São Rafael (1898) - Wrecked 1923
 * Dom Carlos I (1898) - Renamed Candido Reis 1910, disposed of 1923
 * Rainha Dona Amélia (1899) - Renamed República 1910, wrecked 1915
 * Vasco da Gama (1901) - Disposed of 1936
 * Carvalho Araújo class - Flower class sloops re-rated as cruisers
 * Carvalho Araújo (1921) - Disposed of 1959
 * República II (1921) - Disposed of 1943

Romania

 * Protected cruiser
 * Elisabeta (1888)

Sweden

 * Armoured cruiser
 * Fylgia (1905) - Sold for BU 1957
 * Seaplane cruiser
 * Gotland (1933) - converted to an anti-aircraft cruiser - BU 1963
 * Light cruisers
 * Tre Kronor class converted to anti-aircraft cruisers
 * Tre Kronor (1944)
 * Göta Lejon (1945)
 * Mine cruiser
 * Älvsnabben (1943)
 * Clas Fleming
 * Torpedo cruisers
 * Claes Horn
 * Claes Uggla
 * Jacob Bagge
 * Psilander
 * Örnen

Turkey/Ottoman Empire

 * Battlecruisers
 * Yavuz (ex-Goeben) (1912) -purchased 1914, BU 1974
 * Protected cruisers
 * Heibetnuma (1892) - BU 1911
 * Lütf-ü Hümanyun (1892) - BU 1911
 * Hamidiye (Abdul Hamid) (1903) - BU 1947
 * Mecidiye (1905) - captured by Russian 1915, restored 1918, BU 1948
 * Light cruisers
 * Midilli (ex-German Breslau ) (1912) - purchased 1914, mined 1918
 * Torpedo cruisers
 * Peyk-i Şevket (1906)
 * Berk-i Satvet (1906)

United Kingdom

 * List of battlecruisers of the Royal Navy
 * List of cruisers of the Royal Navy

United States
See List of cruisers of the United States Navy

Uruguay

 * Protected cruisers
 * Montevideo (ex-Italian Dogali ) (1885) - purchased 1908, decommissioned 1932

Yugoslavia

 * YUGOSLAV CRUISER Dalmacija (the former German SMS Niobe)