List of cruisers

Contents 1 Argentina 2 Australia 3 Austria-Hungary 4 Brazil 5 Canada 6 Chile 7 China 8 Denmark 9 France 10 Germany 11 Greece 12 India 13 Italy 14 Japan 15 Netherlands 16 New Zealand 17 Norway 18 Pakistan 19 Peru 20 Poland 21 Portugal 22 Romania 23 Russia/USSR 24 Spain 25 Sweden 26 Turkey/Ottoman Empire 27 United Kingdom 28 United States 29 Uruguay 30 Yugoslavia 31 References

This is a list of cruisers, from 1860 to the present. It includes protected, light, armoured, battle-, heavy and missile cruisers. Dates are launching dates.

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Argentina

• Patagonia (1885)
• Necochea (1890) - Renamed Veinticinco de Mayo
• Nueve de Julio (1892)
• Buenos Aires (1895)
• Italian Giuseppe Garibaldi class
  • Garibaldi (1895)
  • San Martín (1896)
  • General Belgrano (1896)
  • Pueyrredón (1897)
• Veinticinco de Mayo class
  • Veinticinco de Mayo (1929) - BU 1962
  • Almirante Brown (1929) - BU 1962
• La Argentina (1939) - BU 1974
• Brooklyn class
  • Nueve De Julio (1951) - Scrapped 1978
  • General Belgrano (1951) - Sunk 1982 in the Falklands War

Australia

Small cruisers

• HMAS Protector (1883/84, South Australia) - Abandoned aground c. 1943
• HMAS Encounter (1902) - Scuttled 1932
• British Chatham class
  • Sydney (1912) - BU 1929
  • Melbourne (1912) - BU 1929
  • Brisbane (1915) - Sold for BU 1936
• Adelaide (1918) - BU 1949

Light cruisers

• British Leander (Apollo) class
  • Perth (1934) - Sunk 1942
  • Sydney (1934) - Sunk 1941
  • Hobart (1934) - BU 1962

Battlecruiser

• Australia (1911) - Scuttled 1924

Heavy cruisers

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

Austria-Hungary

Armored cruisers

• Kaiserin und Königin Maria Theresia (1895)
• Sankt Georg (1903)

Protected cruisers

• Kaiser Franz Joseph I class
  • Kaiser Franz Joseph I
  • Kaiserin Elisabeth

Light cruisers

• Zenta class
  • Zenta
  • Aspern
  • Szigetvár
• Admiral Spaun (1910)
• Novara class
  • Saida (1914)
  • Helgoland (1914)
  • Novara (1915)

Torpedo cruisers

• Leopard class
  • Leopard
  • Panther
• Tiger
• Lussin

Brazil

• Almirante Tamandaré (1890), named after the Marquis of Tamandaré
• Benjamin Constant (1892)
• Republica (1892)
• Almirante Barroso (1896)
• Bahia class
  • Bahia (1910) - Lost 1945
  • Rio Grande do Sul (1910) - BU 1948
• Brooklyn class
  • Almirante Barroso (1951) - later renamed Barroso
  • Almirante Tamandaré (1951) - later renamed Tamandaré

Canada

Protected cruiser

• British Apollo class
  • Rainbow (1891, ex-British Rainbow, obtained 1910) - Sold 1920

Light cruisers

• British Arethusa class
  • Aurora
• British Ceylon class
  • Uganda (1941) - Renamed Quebec, BU 1961
• British Minotaur class
  • Ontario (was HMS Minotaur) (1943) - BU 1960

Armored cruiser

• British Diadem class
  • Niobe (1897, ex-British Niobe, obtained 1910) - BU 1922

Chile

• (Arturo Prat) (1880) - To Japan before delivery, renamed Tsukushi, BU 1910?
• Esmeralda (1883) - To Japan, renamed Idzumi, discarded 1912
• Presidente Errazuriz class
  • Presidente Errazuriz (1890) - Discarded c. 1920
  • Presidente Pinto (1890) - Discarded c. 1910
• Blanco Encalada (1893) - Discarded 1946
• Ministro Zenteno (1896) - Discarded 1931
• Chacabuco (1898) - Stricken 1959

Armored cruisers

• Esmeralda (1894) - Discarded 1929
• General O'Higgins (1897) - Discarded 1946/54

Light cruisers

• Brooklyn class
  • O'Higgins
  • Capitán Prat

China

• Chao Yung class
  • Chao Yung (1880) - Sunk 1894
  • Yang Wei (1881) - Sunk 1894
• Chi Yuan (1883) - Captured by Japan 1895, renamed Sai Yen, mined 1904
• Kai Che class
  • Kai Che (1882) - Explosion 1902
  • King Ch'ing (1886)
  • Huan T'ai (1886) - Collision 1902
• Nan Thin class
  • Nan Thin (1883)
  • Nan Shuin (1884)
  • Fu Ch'ing (1893) - Storm 1898
• Chih Yuan class
  • Chih Yuan (1886) - Sunk 1894
  • Ching Yuan (1886) - Sunk 1895
• King Yuan class
  • King Yuan (1887) - Sunk 1894
  • Lai Yuan (1887) - Sunk 1895
• Lung Wei (1888) - Renamed Ping Yuen
• Tung Chi class
  • Tung Chi (1895) - Sunk 1937
  • Fu An (1894)
• Hai Tien class, 4,300 ton, Armstrong
  • Hai Tien (1897) - Sunk 1904
  • Hai Chi (1898) "Flag of the Sea" - 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]
• Ning Hai class
  • Ning Hai (1931) - Sunk 1937. Re-floated by Japan and renamed Ioshima, Sunk by USS Shad(SS-235).
  • Ping Hai (1931) - Sunk 1937. Re-floated by Japan and ranamed Yasoshima. Sunk by US aircraft attack.
• Chung King class
  • Chung King (1948) - Arethusa-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy HMS Aurora (12), sold on May 19, 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

Denmark

• Fyen (1882)
• Valkyrien (1888)
• Hekla (1890)
• Gejser class
  • Gejser (1892)
  • Heimdal (1894)

France

Germany

Greece

• Amalia (1861) - Renamed Hellas 1862, BU 1906
• Navarchos Miaoulis (1879) - Sold 1931
• Elli (1912, purchased 1914) - Torpedoed by Italian submarine 1940
• Georgios 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

India

• Delhi (purchased 1948), decommissioned, the former British Leander class cruiser HMNZS Achilles
• Mysore (purchased 1957), decommissioned , the former British Crown Colony-class cruiser HMS Nigeria

Italy

Japan

Netherlands

New Zealand

• Achilles - Formerly British Achilles
• Leander - Formerly British Leander

Norway

Protected cruisers

• Viking (1891)
• Frithjof (1896)

Pakistan

• Babur (purchased 1956), the former British Dido-class cruiser HMS Diadem, renamed Jahangir, c. 1961

Peru

Former merchant ships

• Sócrates class (ex-Portuguese)
  • Sócrates (1880) - Renamed Lima
  • Diógenes (1881) - Renamed Callao, not delivered, purchased by the United States in 1889 as USS Topeka

Light cruisers

• Almirante Grau class
  • BAP Almirante Grau (1906)
  • BAP Coronel Bolognesi (1906)
• Crown Colony class
  • BAP Coronel Bolognesi (1942, ex-British HMS Ceylon)
  • BAP Capitán Quiñones (1941, ex-British HMS Newfoundland)
• De Ruyter class
  • BAP Almirante Grau (1944, ex-Dutch HNLMS De Ruyter)
  • BAP Aguirre (1950, ex-Dutch HNLMS De Zeven Provinciën)

Poland

• British D class
  • Dragon
  • Conrad

Portugal

• Adamastor (1896) - Sold 1933
• São Gabriel class
  • São Gabriel (1898) - Disposed of 1924
  • 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
• Vasco da Gama (1901) - Disposed of 1936
• Carvalho Araújo class
  • Carvalho Araújo (1921) - Disposed of 1959
  • República II (1921) - Disposed of 1943

Romania

Protected cruiser

• Elisabeta (1888)

Russia/USSR

See List of cruisers of the Russian Navy

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

• Claes Horn
• Claes Uggla
• Jacob Bagge
• Psilander
• Örnen

Turkey/Ottoman Empire

Battlecruisers

• Yavuz (ex-Goeben) (1912) -purchased 1914, BU 1974

Protected cruisers

• Heibetnuma (1892) - BU 1911
• Lütf-ü Hümanyun (1892) - BU 1911
• Hamidiye (Abdul Hamid) (1903) - BU 1947
• Mecidiye (1905) - captured by Russian 1915, restored 1918, BU 1948

Light cruisers

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

Torpedo cruisers

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

United Kingdom

• List of battlecruisers of the Royal Navy
• List of cruisers of the Royal Navy

United States

See List of cruisers of the United States Navy

Uruguay

Protected cruisers

• Montevideo (ex-Italian Dogali ) (1885) - purchased 1908, decommissioned 1932

Yugoslavia

• Dalmacija (the former German SMS Niobe)

References