List of cruisers
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 - Assigned 1922, scuttled 1947.
Americas
Argentina
; Torpedo cruiser- - Decommissioned 1927
- - Decommissioned 1927
- Necochea - Renamed Veinticinco de Mayo, decommissioned 1921
- - Discarded 1930
- - Retired 1932
- * - Retired 1934
- * - Retired 1935
- * - Retired 1947
- * - Retired 1954
- * Bernardino Rivadavia - Sold to Japan before delivery 1904, renamed Japanese [cruiser Kasuga|Kasuga], discarded 1945
- * Mariano Moreno - Sold to Japan before delivery 1904, renamed Nisshin, retired 1935
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- - Retired 1972
- * - Assigned 1951, retired 1977
- * - Assigned 1951, sunk 1982 in the Falklands War
Brazil
; Auxiliary cruisers Niterói - Ex El Cid, purchased 1893, sold to United States 1898 and renamed USS Buffalo; Torpedo cruisersTymbira - ?Tamoio - ?Tupi - Retired 1915
; Protected cruisers
- - Retired 1915Tiradentes - Decommissioned 1919 Republica - Retired 1921'
- * Name unknown - Not acquired, purchased by Chile and renamed Ministro Zenteno, decommissioned 1930
- * - Retired 1931
- * Amazonas - Not acquired, purchased by United States and renamed USS New Orleans, decommissioned 1922
- * Almirante Abreu - Not acquired, purchased by United States and renamed USS Albany, decommissioned 1922
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- * - Lost 1945
- * - BU 1948
- * Almirante Barroso - Assigned 1951, retired 1973
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Canada
;Protected cruiser- British '
- * – Sold 1920
- British '
- * – BU 1922
- British '
- * – Sold for scrap 1927
- British '
- * – Renamed Quebec 1952, BU 1961
- British
- * – BU 1960
Chile
; Unprotected cruiser Arturo Prat - Purchase canceled and sold to Japan in 1883, renamed, retired 1910; Protected cruisers
- - Sold to Japan 1894, renamed, discarded 1912'
- * Presidente Errázuriz - Discarded 1930
- * Presidente Pinto - Shipwreck 1905
- Blanco Encalada - Retired 1940
- Ministro Zenteno - Retired 1930
- Chacabuco - Stricken 1959
; Light cruisers
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- * OHiggins - Acquired 1951, retired 1991
- * Capitán Prat - Acquired 1951, retired 1982
- * Almirante Latorre - Commissioned 1971, retired 1984
Haiti
; Protected cruiser- Consul Gostrück, assigned 1910, lost 1911.
Peru
;Auxiliary cruisers Sócrates class'- * Sócrates - Renamed Lima, assigned 1889, retired 1950
- * Diógenes - Renamed Callao, not delivered, purchased by the United States in 1898 and renamed USS Topeka
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;Light cruisers'
- * - assigned 1959, retired 1979. Called Almirante Grau 1960-1973
- * - assigned 1960, retired 1982
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Uruguay
;Protected cruiserMontevideo - purchased 1908, decommissioned 1932Venezuela
;Protected cruiser- Mariscal Sucre - purchased 1912, decommissioned 1940
Asia
China
; Unprotected CruisersChaoyong class- * - Sunk 1894
- * - Sunk 1894
- - Captured by Japan 1895, renamed Sai Yen, mined 1904Zhiyuan class cruiser, 2,680 ton, Armstrong
- * - Sunk 1894
- * - Sunk 1895Hai Chi class cruiser, 4,300 ton, Armstrong
- * ' - Sunk 1904
- * ' - Sunk 1937 as blockship in Yangtze riverHai Yung class cruiser, 2,680 ton, AG Vulcan
- * - Sunk 1937 as blockship in Yangtze river
- * Hai Chou - Sunk 1937 as blockship in Yangtze river
- * "Pearl of the Sea" - Sunk 1937 as blockship in Yangtze river
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- * ' - Sunk 1937.
- * ' - Sunk 1937.
- * - Sunk 1894
- * - Sunk 1895Lung Wei - Renamed Ping Yuen
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- Type 055 class
India
British- * – Scrapped 1978 British
- * – Scrapped 1985
Indonesia
- KRI, former Soviet Ordzhonikidze – Scrapped 1972
Pakistan
- , the former British, renamed Jahangir, c. 1961
Thailand/Siam
Taksin class- * Taksin
- * ''Naresuan''
Turkey/Ottoman Empire
;Battlecruisers- Yavuz Sultan Selim -purchased 1914, BU 1974
- - BU 1911
- - BU 1911'
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- - BU 1947
- - captured by Russian 1915, restored 1918, BU 1948
- Midilli - purchased 1914, mined 1918
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Europe
Belgium
; Protected cruiserCroatia
; Light cruiserDenmark
; Unprotected cruiserFyen; Protected cruisers
- Valkyrien Hekla Gejser class
- * Gejser
- * ''Heimdal''
Germany
Greece
Amalia - Renamed Hellas 1862, BU 1906- - Sold 1931
- Antinavarchos Kountouriotis - Purchased by Royal Navy while under construction
- Lambros Katsonis - Purchased by Royal Navy while under construction
- - Torpedoed by Italian submarine 1940
- - Italian Pisa class, preserved at Faliro as museum
- II - Stricken 1964
Norway
;Protected cruisersPoland
;Light cruisers- Danae-class
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Portugal
- - Sold 1933São Gabriel class
- * - Disposed of 1924
- * - Wrecked 1923
- Dom Carlos I (1898) - Renamed Candido Reis 1910, disposed of 1923Rainha Dona Amélia - Renamed República 1910, wrecked 1915Carvalho Araújo class - sloops re-rated as cruisers
- * Carvalho Araújo - Disposed of 1959
- * República II - Disposed of 1943
Sweden
;Armoured cruiser- - Sold for BU 1957
- - converted to an anti-aircraft cruiser - BU 1963
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;Torpedo cruisers
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Ukraine
- ''Ukraina''
United Kingdom
Yugoslavia
*Oceania
Australia
;Protected cruiser- - Scuttled 1932
- - Scuttled 1924
- British Chatham class
- * - BU 1929
- * - BU 1929
- * - Sold for BU 1936
- * - BU 1949
- British Leander (Apollo) class'
- * - Sunk 1942
- * - Sunk 1941
- * - BU 1962
- British '
- * - BU 1955
- * - Sunk 1942
- * - 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''