This is a list of cruisers, from 1860 to the present. It includes torpedo, unprotected, protected, scout, light, armoured, battle-, heavy and missile cruisers. Dates are launching dates.
Africa
South Africa
Protected cruiser
SATS General Botha (1885, ex-HMS Thames) - Assigned 1922, scuttled 1947. Americas
Argentina
Torpedo cruiser (1893) - Decommissioned 1927 Protected cruisers (1886) - Decommissioned 1927 Necochea (1890) - Renamed Veinticinco de Mayo, decommissioned 1921 (1892) - Discarded 1930 (1895) - Retired 1932 Armored cruisers
(1895) - Retired 1934 (1896) - Retired 1935 (1897) - Retired 1947 (1897) - Retired 1954 Bernardino Rivadavia (1902) - Sold to Japan before delivery 1904, renamed Kasuga, discarded 1945 Mariano Moreno (1903) - Sold to Japan before delivery 1904, renamed Nisshin, retired 1935 Heavy cruisers
(1929) - Scrapped 1960 (1929) - Scrapped 1962 Light cruisers (1937) - Retired 1972
(1936, ex-USS Boise) - Assigned 1951, retired 1977 (1938, ex-USS Phoenix) - Assigned 1951, sunk 1982 in the Falklands War
Brazil
Auxiliary cruisers (former merchant ships) Niterói (1893) - Ex El Cid, purchased 1893, sold to United States 1898 and renamed USS Buffalo Torpedo cruisers Tymbira (1896) - ? Tamoio (1896) - ? Tupi (1896) - Retired 1915 Protected cruisers (1890) - Retired 1915 Tiradentes (1892) - Decommissioned 1919 Republica (1892) - Retired 1921
Name unknown (1896) - Not acquired, purchased by Chile and renamed Ministro Zenteno, decommissioned 1930 - Retired 1931 Amazonas (1896) - Not acquired, purchased by United States and renamed USS New Orleans, decommissioned 1922 Almirante Abreu (1899) - Not acquired, purchased by United States and renamed USS Albany, decommissioned 1922 Scout cruisers
(1909) - Lost 1945 (1910) - BU 1948 Light cruisers
Almirante Barroso (1936, ex-USS Philadelphia) - Assigned 1951, retired 1973
Almirante Tamandaré (1938, ex-USS St. Louis) - Assigned 1951, retired 1976
Canada Protected cruiser British (1891, ex-British Rainbow, transferred 1910) – Sold 1920 British (1897, ex-British Niobe, transferred 1910) – BU 1922 Light cruisers British (1913, ex-British Aurora, transferred 1920) – Sold for scrap 1927 British (1941, ex-British Uganda, transferred 1944) – Renamed Quebec 1952, BU 1961 British (1943, ex-British Minotaur, transferred 1944) – BU 1960
Chile
Unprotected cruiser Arturo Prat (1880) - Purchase canceled and sold to Japan in 1883, renamed , retired 1910 Protected cruisers (1883) - Sold to Japan 1894, renamed , discarded 1912
Presidente Errázuriz (1890) - Discarded 1930 Presidente Pinto (1890) - Shipwreck 1905 Blanco Encalada (1893) - Retired 1940 Ministro Zenteno (1896) - Retired 1930 Chacabuco (1897) - Stricken 1959 Armored cruisers Esmeralda (1895) - Retired 1930 O'Higgins (1896) - Retired 1933 Light cruisers
OHiggins (1936, ex-USS Brooklyn) - Acquired 1951, retired 1991 Capitán Prat (1937, ex-USS Nashville) - Acquired 1951, retired 1982
Almirante Latorre (1945, ex-Swedish Göta Lejon) - Commissioned 1971, retired 1984
Haiti Protected cruiser
Consul Gostrück (1894-ex Italian Umbria), assigned 1910, lost 1911.
Peru
Auxiliary cruisers (former merchant ships) Sócrates class (ex-Portuguese) Sócrates (1880) - Renamed Lima, assigned 1889, retired 1950 Diógenes (1881) - Renamed Callao, not delivered, purchased by the United States in 1898 and renamed USS Topeka Scout cruisers
Almirante Grau (1906) - retired 1958 Coronel Bolognesi (1906) - retired 1958 Armored cruiser Comandante Aguirre (ex-French Dupuy de Lôme) (1890) - purchased 1912, purchase canceled 1914 Light cruisers
(1941, ex-British ) - assigned 1959, retired 1979. Called Almirante Grau 1960-1973 (1942, ex-British ) - assigned 1960, retired 1982
(1944, ex-Dutch ) - assigned 1973, retired 2017 (1950, ex-Dutch ) - assigned 1978, retired 1999
United States
Uruguay Protected cruiser Montevideo (1885, ex-Italian Dogali) - purchased 1908, decommissioned 1932
Venezuela Protected cruiser Mariscal Sucre (ex-Spanish Isla de Cuba) (1886) - purchased 1912, decommissioned 1940
Asia
China
Unprotected Cruisers Chaoyong class (1880) - Sunk 1894 (1881) - Sunk 1894 Kai Che (1882) - Explosion 1902 Nan Thin class (1883) Nan Shuin (1884) Pao Min (1885) King Ch'ing class King Ch'ing (1886) Huan T'ai (1886) - Collision 1902 Tung Chi (1894) - Sunk 1937 Fu An (1897)
Protected Cruisers (1883) - Captured by Japan 1895, renamed Sai Yen, mined 1904 Zhiyuan class cruiser, 2,680 ton, Armstrong (1886) - Sunk 1894 (1886) - Sunk 1895 Hai Chi class cruiser, 4,300 ton, Armstrong (1897) - Sunk 1904 (1898) - Sunk 1937 as blockship in Yangtze river Hai Yung class cruiser, 2,680 ton, AG Vulcan (1897) - Sunk 1937 as blockship in Yangtze river Hai Chou (1897) - Sunk 1937 as blockship in Yangtze river (1898) "Pearl of the Sea" - Sunk 1937 as blockship in Yangtze river
(1912) - Sunk 1937. (1913) - Sunk 1937.
Armoured Cruisers King Yuan class (1887) - Sunk 1894 (1887) - Sunk 1895 Lung Wei (1888) - Renamed Ping Yuen
Light cruisers
(1931) - Sunk 1937. Re-floated by Japan and renamed Ioshima. Sunk by . (1931) - Sunk 1937. Re-floated by Japan and renamed Yasoshima. Sunk by US aircraft attack. (1934) - Sunk 1937. Re-floated by Japan and renamed Atada. Returned to the Republic of China 1946, decommissioned 1958 British Arethusa class Chung King (1948) - ex- of the Royal Navy, sold on 19 May 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. Guided missile cruisers Type 055 class
India British (1932, ex-British , purchased 1948) – Scrapped 1978 British (1939, ex-British , purchased 1957) – Scrapped 1985
Indonesia KRI (purchased 1962), former Soviet Ordzhonikidze – Scrapped 1972
Japan
Pakistan (purchased 1956), the former British , renamed Jahangir, c. 1961
Thailand/Siam Taksin class (1939, requisitioned by Italy 1941) Taksin (unfinished) Naresuan (unfinished)
Turkey/Ottoman Empire Battlecruisers Yavuz Sultan Selim (ex-German Goeben) (1912) -purchased 1914, BU 1974 Unprotected cruisers (1892) - BU 1911 (1892) - BU 1911
(unfinished) (unfinished)
(unfinished) (unfinished) Protected cruisers (Abdul Hamid) (1903) - BU 1947 (1903) - captured by Russian 1915, restored 1918, BU 1948 Light cruisers Midilli (ex-German Breslau ) (1912) - purchased 1914, mined 1918 Torpedo cruisers
(1906) (1906)
Europe
Austria-Hungary
Belgium Protected cruiser D'Entrecasteaux
Croatia
Light cruiser Zniam (ex-KB Dalmacija, ex-SMS Niobe)
Denmark Unprotected cruiser Fyen (1882) Protected cruisers Valkyrien (1888) Hekla (1890) Gejser class Gejser (1892) Heimdal (1894)
France
Germany List of battlecruisers of Germany List of cruisers of Germany
Greece
Amalia (1861) - Renamed Hellas 1862, BU 1906 (1879) - Sold 1931 Antinavarchos Kountouriotis (1914) - Purchased by Royal Navy while under construction Lambros Katsonis (1914) - Purchased by Royal Navy while under construction (1912, purchased 1914) - Torpedoed by Italian submarine 1940 (1910) - Italian Pisa class, preserved at Faliro as museum II (1935, ex-Italian Eugenio di Savoia, obtained in 1951 as war reparations) - Stricken 1964
Italy
Netherlands
Norway Protected cruisers Viking (1891) Frithjof (1896)
Poland Light cruisers Danae-class
Protected cruisers ORP Bałtyk
Portugal (1896) - Sold 1933 São Gabriel class (1898) - Disposed of 1924 (1898) - Wrecked 1923 Dom Carlos I (1898) - Renamed Candido Reis 1910, disposed of 1923 Rainha Dona Amélia (1899) - Renamed República 1910, wrecked 1915 Carvalho Araújo class - sloops re-rated as cruisers Carvalho Araújo (1921) - Disposed of 1959 República II (1921) - Disposed of 1943
Romania
Russia/USSR
Spain
Sweden Armoured cruiser (1905) - Sold for BU 1957 Seaplane cruiser (1933) - converted to an anti-aircraft cruiserFriedman, Norman "Anti-Aircraft Cruisers: The Life of a Class" United States Naval Institute Proceedings January 1965 p.96 - BU 1963 Light cruisers converted to anti-aircraft cruisers (1944) (1945) Mine cruiser (1943)
Torpedo cruisers
Ukraine
Ukraina
United Kingdom List of battlecruisers of the Royal Navy List of cruisers of the Royal Navy
Yugoslavia (the former German )
Oceania
Australia Protected cruiser (1902) - Scuttled 1932 Battlecruiser (1911) - Scuttled 1924 Light cruisers British Chatham class (1912) - BU 1929 (1912) - BU 1929 (1915) - Sold for BU 1936 (1918) - BU 1949 British Leander (Apollo) class (1934) - Sunk 1942 (1934) - Sunk 1941 (1934) - BU 1962 Heavy cruisers British (1927) - BU 1955 (1927) - Sunk 1942 (1927) - BU 1955
New Zealand HMNZS Achilles - Formerly British Achilles HMNZS Leander - Formerly British Leander HMNZS Gambia - Formerly British Gambia HMNZS Black Prince - Formerly British Black Prince HMNZS Bellona - Formerly British Bellona HMNZS Royalist - Formerly British Royalist
See also List of ironclads List of battleships List of ships of the Second World War List of cruisers of the Second World War
References