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.

South Africa

 * Protected cruiser


 * SATS General Botha (1885, ex-HMS Thames) - Assigned 1922, scuttled 1947.

Argentina

 * Torpedo cruiser
 * ARA Patria (1893) - Decommissioned 1927
 * Protected cruisers
 * ARA Patagonia (1886) - Decommissioned 1927
 * Necochea (1890) - Renamed Veinticinco de Mayo, decommissioned 1921
 * ARA Nueve de Julio (1892) - Discarded 1930
 * ARA Buenos Aires (1895) - Retired 1932
 * Armored cruisers
 * Giuseppe Garibaldi-class cruiser
 * ARA Garibaldi (1895) - Retired 1934
 * ARA San Martín (1896) - Retired 1935
 * ARA General Belgrano (1897) - Retired 1947
 * ARA 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 cruiser
 * ARA Veinticinco de Mayo (1929) - Scrapped 1960
 * ARA Almirante Brown (1929) - Scrapped 1962
 * Light cruisers
 * ARA La Argentina (1937) - Retired 1972
 * Brooklyn-class cruiser
 * ARA Nueve de Julio (1936, ex-USS Boise) - Assigned 1951, retired 1977
 * ARA 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
 * BRAZILIAN CRUISER Almirante Tamandaré (1890) - Retired 1915
 * Tiradentes (1892) - Decommissioned 1919
 * Republica (1892) - Retired 1921
 * Almirante Barroso-class cruiser
 * Name unknown (1896) - Not acquired, purchased by Chile and renamed Ministro Zenteno, decommissioned 1930
 * BRAZILIAN CRUISER 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 cruiser
 * BRAZILIAN CRUISER Bahia (1909) - Lost 1945
 * BRAZILIAN CRUISER Rio Grande do Sul (1910) - BU 1948
 * Light cruisers
 * Brooklyn-class cruiser
 * Almirante Barroso (1936, ex-USS Philadelphia) - Assigned 1951, retired 1973
 * St. Louis-class cruiser (1938)
 * Almirante Tamandaré (1938, ex-USS St. Louis) - Assigned 1951, retired 1976

Canada

 * Protected cruiser
 * British Apollo-class cruiser
 * HMCS Rainbow (1891) (1891, ex-British Rainbow, transferred 1910) – Sold 1920
 * British Diadem-class cruiser
 * HMCS Niobe (1897, ex-British Niobe, transferred 1910) – BU 1922
 * Light cruisers
 * British Arethusa-class cruiser (1913)
 * HMCS Aurora (1913, ex-British Aurora, transferred 1920) – Sold for scrap 1927
 * British Fiji-class cruiser
 * HMS Uganda (66) (1941, ex-British Uganda, transferred 1944) – Renamed Quebec 1952, BU 1961
 * British Minotaur-class cruiser (1943)
 * HMCS Ontario (C53) (1943, ex-British Minotaur, transferred 1944) – BU 1960

Chile

 * Unprotected cruiser
 * Arturo Prat (1880) - Purchase canceled and sold to Japan in 1883, renamed JAPANESE CRUISER Tsukushi, retired 1910
 * Protected cruisers
 * CHILEAN CRUISER Esmeralda (1883) - Sold to Japan 1894, renamed JAPANESE CRUISER Izumi, discarded 1912
 * Presidente Errázuriz-class cruiser
 * 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 cruiser
 * O'Higgins (1936, ex-USS Brooklyn) - Acquired 1951, retired 1991
 * Capitán Prat (1937, ex-USS Nashville) - Acquired 1951, retired 1982
 * Tre Kronor-class cruiser
 * 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 cruiser
 * 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 cruiser
 * BAP Capitán Quiñones (1941, ex-British HMS Newfoundland (C59)) - assigned 1959, retired 1979. Called Almirante Grau 1960-1973
 * BAP Coronel Bolognesi (1942, ex-British HMS Ceylon (C30)) - assigned 1960, retired 1982
 * De Zeven Provinciën-class cruiser
 * BAP Almirante Grau (1944, ex-Dutch HNLMS De Ruyter (C801)) - assigned 1973, retired 2017
 * BAP Aguirre (1950, ex-Dutch HNLMS De Zeven Provinciën (C802)) - assigned 1978, retired 1999

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

China

 * Unprotected Cruisers
 * Chaoyong class
 * CHINESE CRUISER Chaoyong (1880) - Sunk 1894
 * CHINESE CRUISER Yangwei (1881) - Sunk 1894
 * Kai Che (1882) - Explosion 1902
 * Nan Thin class
 * CHINESE CRUISER 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
 * CHINESE CRUISER Jiyuan (1883) - Captured by Japan 1895, renamed Sai Yen, mined 1904
 * Chih Yuan class
 * CHINESE CRUISER Chih Yuen (1886) - Sunk 1894
 * CHINESE CRUISER Ching Yuen (1886) - Sunk 1895
 * Hai Chi class cruiser, 4,300 ton, Armstrong
 * CHINESE CRUISER Hai Tien (1897) - Sunk 1904
 * CHINESE CRUISER Hai Chi (1898) - Sunk 1937 as blockship in Yangtze river
 * Hai Yung class
 * CHINESE CRUISER Hai Yung (1897) - Sunk 1937 as blockship in Yangtze river
 * Hai Chou (1897) - Sunk 1937 as blockship in Yangtze river
 * CHINESE CRUISER Hai Shen (1898) "Pearl of the Sea" - Sunk 1937 as blockship in Yangtze river
 * Chao Ho-class cruiser
 * CHINESE CRUISER Chao Ho (1912) - Sunk 1937.
 * CHINESE CRUISER Ying Rui (1913) - Sunk 1937.


 * Armoured Cruisers
 * King Yuan class
 * CHINESE CRUISER King Yuen (1887) - Sunk 1894
 * CHINESE CRUISER Laiyuan (1887) - Sunk 1895
 * Lung Wei (1888) - Renamed Ping Yuen


 * Light cruisers
 * Ning Hai-class cruiser
 * CHINESE CRUISER Ning Hai (1931) - Sunk 1937. Re-floated by Japan and renamed Ioshima. Sunk by USS Shad (SS-235).
 * CHINESE CRUISER Ping Hai (1931) - Sunk 1937. Re-floated by Japan and renamed Yasoshima. Sunk by US aircraft attack.
 * CHINESE CRUISER 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 (12) 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 cruiser (1931)
 * INS Delhi (1932, ex-British HMNZS Achilles, purchased 1948) – Scrapped 1978
 * British Crown Colony-class cruiser
 * INS Mysore (1939, ex-British HMS Nigeria (60), purchased 1957) – Scrapped 1985

Indonesia

 * KRI INDONESIAN CRUISER Irian (purchased 1962), former Soviet Sverdlov-class cruiser Ordzhonikidze – Scrapped 1972

Pakistan

 * PNS Babur (purchased 1956), the former British Dido-class cruiser HMS Diadem (84), 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
 * OTTOMAN CRUISER Lütf-ü Hümayun (1892) - BU 1911
 * OTTOMAN CRUISER Heibetnuma (1892) - BU 1911
 * Feyzâ-i Bahri-class cruiser
 * OTTOMAN CRUISER Feyzâ-i Bahri (unfinished)
 * OTTOMAN CRUISER Şadiye (unfinished)
 * Hüdâvendigâr-class cruiser
 * OTTOMAN CRUISER Hüdâvendigâr (unfinished)
 * OTTOMAN CRUISER Selimiye (unfinished)
 * Protected cruisers
 * OTTOMAN CRUISER Hamidiye (Abdul Hamid) (1903) - BU 1947
 * OTTOMAN CRUISER 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 cruiser
 * OTTOMAN CRUISER Peyk-i Şevket (1906)
 * OTTOMAN CRUISER Berk-i Satvet (1906)

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)

Germany

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

Greece

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

Norway

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

Poland

 * Light cruisers
 * Danae-class
 * ORP Dragon
 * ORP Conrad


 * Protected cruisers
 * ORP Bałtyk

Portugal

 * NRP 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

Sweden

 * Armoured cruiser
 * HSWMS Fylgia (1905) - Sold for BU 1957
 * Seaplane cruiser
 * HSWMS Gotland (1933) (1933) - converted to an anti-aircraft cruiser - BU 1963
 * Light cruisers
 * Tre Kronor-class cruiser converted to anti-aircraft cruisers
 * HSWMS Tre Kronor (1944)
 * HSWMS Göta Lejon (1945)
 * Mine cruiser
 * HSWMS Älvsnabben (M01) (1943)
 * HSWMS Clas Fleming
 * Torpedo cruisers
 * HSWMS Claes Horn
 * HSWMS Claes Uggla
 * HSWMS Jacob Bagge
 * HSWMS Psilander (1899)
 * HSWMS Örnen

Ukraine

 * Light cruisers
 * Krasnyi Krym
 * Pamiat' Merkuria
 * Guided-missile cruisers
 * Ukraina

United Kingdom

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

Yugoslavia

 * YUGOSLAV CRUISER Dalmacija (the former German SMS Niobe)

Australia

 * Protected cruiser
 * HMS Encounter (1902) (1902) - Scuttled 1932
 * Battlecruiser
 * HMAS Australia (1911) (1911) - Scuttled 1924
 * Light cruisers
 * British Chatham class
 * HMAS Sydney (1912) (1912) - BU 1929
 * HMAS Melbourne (1912) (1912) - BU 1929
 * HMAS Brisbane (1915) (1915) - Sold for BU 1936
 * HMAS Adelaide (1918) (1918) - BU 1949
 * British Leander (Apollo) class
 * HMAS Perth (D29) (1934) - Sunk 1942
 * HMAS Sydney (1934) (1934) - Sunk 1941
 * HMAS Hobart (1939) (1934) - BU 1962
 * Heavy cruisers
 * British County-class cruiser
 * HMAS Australia (1927) (1927) - BU 1955
 * HMAS Canberra (1927) (1927) - Sunk 1942
 * HMS Shropshire (83) (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