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

Americas

Argentina

; Torpedo cruiser
  • - Decommissioned 1927
; Protected cruisers
  • - Decommissioned 1927
  • Necochea - Renamed Veinticinco de Mayo, decommissioned 1921
  • - Discarded 1930
  • - Retired 1932
; Armored cruisers'
  • * - 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
; Heavy cruisers
  • '
  • * - Scrapped 1960
  • * - Scrapped 1962
; Light cruisers
  • - 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
; Scout cruisers
  • '
  • * - Lost 1945
  • * - BU 1948
; Light cruisers'

Canada

;Protected cruiser
  • British '
  • * – Sold 1920
  • British '
  • * – BU 1922
;Light cruisers
  • 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
; Armored cruisers
; Light cruisers

Haiti

; Protected cruiser

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
;Scout cruisers
;Armored cruiserComandante Aguirre - purchased 1912, purchase canceled 1914
;Light cruisers'
  • * - assigned 1959, retired 1979. Called Almirante Grau 1960-1973
  • * - assigned 1960, retired 1982
  • '
  • * - assigned 1973, retired 2017
  • * - assigned 1978, retired 1999

Uruguay

;Protected cruiserMontevideo - purchased 1908, decommissioned 1932

Venezuela

;Protected cruiser

Asia

China

; Unprotected CruisersChaoyong class
  • * - Sunk 1894
  • * - Sunk 1894Kai Che - Explosion 1902Nan Thin class
  • *
  • * Nan Shuin Pao Min King Ch'ing class
  • * King Ch'ing
  • * Huan T'ai - Collision 1902Tung Chi - Sunk 1937Fu An
; Protected Cruisers
; Armoured CruisersKing Yuan class
  • * - Sunk 1894
  • * - Sunk 1895Lung Wei - Renamed Ping Yuen
; Light cruisers
  • '
  • * - Sunk 1937. Re-floated by Japan and renamed Ioshima. Sunk by.
  • * - Sunk 1937. Re-floated by Japan and renamed Yasoshima. Sunk by US aircraft attack.' - Sunk 1937. Re-floated by Japan and renamed Atada. Returned to the Republic of China 1946, decommissioned 1958British Arethusa class'
  • * Chung King'' - 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

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
;Unprotected cruisers
  • - BU 1911
  • - BU 1911'
  • *
  • *
  • '
  • *
  • *
;Protected cruisers
  • - BU 1947
  • - captured by Russian 1915, restored 1918, BU 1948
;Light cruisers
  • Midilli - purchased 1914, mined 1918
;Torpedo cruisers
  • *
  • *

Europe

Belgium

; Protected cruiser

Croatia

; Light cruiser

Denmark

; Unprotected cruiserFyen
; Protected cruisers
  • Valkyrien Hekla Gejser class
  • * Gejser
  • * ''Heimdal''

Germany

Greece

Amalia - Renamed Hellas 1862, BU 1906

Norway

;Protected cruisers

Poland

;Light cruisers
;Protected cruisers

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
;Seaplane cruiser
;Light cruisers converted to anti-aircraft cruisers
  • *
  • *
;Mine cruiser
;Torpedo cruisers
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Ukraine

United Kingdom

Yugoslavia

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Oceania

Australia

;Protected cruiser
  • - Scuttled 1932
;Battlecruiser
  • - Scuttled 1924
;Light cruisers
  • British Chatham class
  • * - BU 1929
  • * - BU 1929
  • * - Sold for BU 1936
  • * - BU 1949
  • British Leander (Apollo) class'
  • * - Sunk 1942
  • * - Sunk 1941
  • * - BU 1962
;Heavy cruisers
  • British '
  • * - BU 1955
  • * - Sunk 1942
  • * - BU 1955

New Zealand