List of cruisers

Last updated February 13, 2025

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

Patria (1893) - Decommissioned 1927

Protected cruisers

Patagonia (1886) - Decommissioned 1927
Necochea (1890) - Renamed Veinticinco de Mayo, decommissioned 1921
Nueve de Julio (1892) - Discarded 1930
Buenos Aires (1895) - Retired 1932

Armored cruisers

Giuseppe Garibaldi class
- Garibaldi (1895) - Retired 1934
- San Martín (1896) - Retired 1935
- General Belgrano (1897) - Retired 1947
- Pueyrredón (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

Veinticinco de Mayo class
- Veinticinco de Mayo (1929) - Scrapped 1960
- Almirante Brown (1929) - Scrapped 1962

Light cruisers

La Argentina (1937) - Retired 1972
Brooklyn class
- Nueve de Julio (1936, ex-USS Boise) - Assigned 1951, retired 1977
- General Belgrano (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

Almirante Tamandaré (1890) - Retired 1915
Tiradentes (1892) - Decommissioned 1919
Republica (1892) - Retired 1921
Almirante Barroso class
- Name unknown (1896) - Not acquired, purchased by Chile and renamed Ministro Zenteno, decommissioned 1930
- Almirante Barroso - 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

Bahia class
- Bahia (1909) - Lost 1945
- Rio Grande do Sul (1910) - BU 1948

Light cruisers

Brooklyn class
- Almirante Barroso (1936, ex-USS Philadelphia) - Assigned 1951, retired 1973
St. Louis class
- Almirante Tamandaré (1938, ex-USS St. Louis) - Assigned 1951, retired 1976

Canada

Protected cruiser

British Apollo class
- Rainbow (1891, ex-British Rainbow, transferred 1910) – Sold 1920
British Diadem class
- Niobe (1897, ex-British Niobe, transferred 1910) – BU 1922

Light cruisers

British Arethusa class
- Aurora (1913, ex-British Aurora, transferred 1920) – Sold for scrap 1927
British Fiji class
- Uganda (1941, ex-British Uganda, transferred 1944) – Renamed Quebec 1952, BU 1961
British Minotaur class
- Ontario (1943, ex-British Minotaur, transferred 1944) – BU 1960

Chile

Unprotected cruiser

Arturo Prat (1880) - Purchase canceled and sold to Japan in 1883, renamed Tsukushi, retired 1910

Protected cruisers

Esmeralda (1883) - Sold to Japan 1894, renamed Izumi, discarded 1912
Presidente Errázuriz class
- 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

Brooklyn class
- O'Higgins (1936, ex-USS Brooklyn) - Acquired 1951, retired 1991
- Capitán Prat (1937, ex-USS Nashville) - Acquired 1951, retired 1982
Tre Kronor class
- 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 class
- 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

Fiji class
- Capitán Quiñones (1941, ex-British HMS Newfoundland) - assigned 1959, retired 1979. Called Almirante Grau 1960-1973
- Coronel Bolognesi (1942, ex-British HMS Ceylon) - assigned 1960, retired 1982
De Zeven Provinciën class
- Almirante Grau (1944, ex-Dutch HNLMS De Ruyter) - assigned 1973, retired 2017
- Aguirre (1950, ex-Dutch HNLMS De Zeven Provinciën) - 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
- Chaoyong (1880) - Sunk 1894
- Yangwei (1881) - Sunk 1894
Kai Che (1882) - Explosion 1902
Nan Thin class
- Nan Thin (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

Jiyuan (1883) - Captured by Japan 1895, renamed Sai Yen, mined 1904
Chih Yuan class, 2,300 ton, Armstrong
- Chih Yuen (1886) - Sunk 1894
- Ching Yuen (1886) - Sunk 1895
Hai Chi class cruiser , 4,300 ton, Armstrong
- Hai Tien (1897) - Sunk 1904
- Hai Chi (1898) - Sunk 1937 as blockship in Yangtze river ^[1]
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 ^[1]
Chao Ho class
- Chao Ho (1912) - Sunk 1937.
- Ying Rui (1913) - Sunk 1937.

Armoured Cruisers

King Yuan class
- King Yuen (1887) - Sunk 1894
- Laiyuan (1887) - Sunk 1895
Lung Wei (1888) - Renamed Ping Yuen

Light cruisers

Ning Hai class
- Ning Hai (1931) - Sunk 1937. Re-floated by Japan and renamed Ioshima. Sunk by USS Shad.
- Ping Hai (1931) - Sunk 1937. Re-floated by Japan and renamed Yasoshima. Sunk by US aircraft attack.
Yat Sen (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-HMS Aurora 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 Leander class
- Delhi (1932, ex-British HMNZS Achilles, purchased 1948) – Scrapped 1978
British Crown Colony class
- Mysore (1939, ex-British HMS Nigeria, purchased 1957) – Scrapped 1985

Indonesia

KRI Irian (purchased 1962), former Soviet Sverdlov-class cruiserOrdzhonikidze – Scrapped 1972

Japan

Pakistan

Babur (purchased 1956), the former British Dido-class cruiser HMS Diadem, 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

Lütf-ü Hümayun (1892) - BU 1911
Heibetnuma (1892) - BU 1911
Feyzâ-i Bahri class
- Feyzâ-i Bahri (unfinished)
- Şadiye (unfinished)
Hüdâvendigâr class
- Hüdâvendigâr (unfinished)
- Selimiye (unfinished)

Protected cruisers

Hamidiye (Abdul Hamid) (1903) - BU 1947
Mecidiye (1903) - captured by Russian 1915, restored 1918, BU 1948

Light cruisers

Midilli (ex-German Breslau ) (1912) - purchased 1914, mined 1918

Torpedo cruisers

Peyk-i Şevket class
- Peyk-i Şevket (1906)
- Berk-i Satvet (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

Greece

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Amalia (1861) - Renamed Hellas 1862, BU 1906
Navarchos Miaoulis (1879) - Sold 1931
Antinavarchos Kountouriotis (1914) - Purchased by Royal Navy while under construction
Lambros Katsonis (1914) - Purchased by Royal Navy while under construction
Elli (1912, purchased 1914) - Torpedoed by Italian submarine 1940
Giorgios 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

Italy

Netherlands

Norway

Protected cruisers

Viking (1891)
Frithjof (1896)

Poland

Light cruisers

Danae-class
- Dragon
- Conrad

Protected cruisers

ORP Bałtyk

Portugal

Adamastor (1896) - Sold 1933
São Gabriel class
- NRP São Gabriel (1898) - Disposed of 1924
- NRP 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

Romania

Russia/USSR

Spain

Sweden

Armoured cruiser

Fylgia (1905) - Sold for BU 1957

Seaplane cruiser

Gotland (1933) - converted to an anti-aircraft cruiser^[2] - BU 1963

Light cruisers

Tre Kronor class converted to anti-aircraft cruisers^[2]
- Tre Kronor (1944)
- Göta Lejon (1945)

Mine cruiser

Älvsnabben (1943)
Clas Fleming

Torpedo cruisers

Ukraine

Ukraina

United Kingdom

Yugoslavia

Dalmacija (the former German SMS Niobe)

Oceania

Australia

Protected cruiser

Encounter (1902) - Scuttled 1932

Battlecruiser

Australia (1911) - Scuttled 1924

Light cruisers

British Chatham class
- Sydney (1912) - BU 1929
- Melbourne (1912) - BU 1929
- Brisbane (1915) - Sold for BU 1936
- Adelaide (1918) - BU 1949
British Leander (Apollo) class
- Perth (1934) - Sunk 1942
- Sydney (1934) - Sunk 1941
- Hobart (1934) - BU 1962

Heavy cruisers

British County class
- Australia (1927) - BU 1955
- Canberra (1927) - Sunk 1942
- Shropshire (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

References

1 2 "Flag, Pearl & Peace". Time magazine . July 17, 1933. Archived from the original on November 22, 2010. Retrieved 2010-12-18.
1 2 Friedman, Norman "Anti-Aircraft Cruisers: The Life of a Class" United States Naval Institute Proceedings January 1965 p.96

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[time-1] 1 2 "Flag, Pearl & Peace". Time magazine . July 17, 1933. Archived from the original on November 22, 2010. Retrieved 2010-12-18.

[Friedman_p.96-2] 1 2 Friedman, Norman "Anti-Aircraft Cruisers: The Life of a Class" United States Naval Institute Proceedings January 1965 p.96

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