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)
- Patria (1893) Light cruiser of the British Dryad class BU 1927
- 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
- Adelaide (1918) - BU 1949
- Light cruisers
- British Leander (Apollo) class
- 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)
- Kaiser Karl VI (1898)
- Sankt Georg (1903)
- Protected cruisers
- Light cruisers
- Zenta class
- Admiral Spaun (1910)
- Novara class
- Saida (1914)
- Helgoland (1914)
- Novara (1915)
- Torpedo cruisers
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
- British Diadem class
- Light cruisers
- British Arethusa class
- British Ceylon class
- Uganda (1941) - Renamed Quebec, BU 1961
- British Minotaur class
- Ontario (was HMS Minotaur) (1943) - BU 1960
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
- O'Higgins (1897) - Discarded 1946/54
- Light cruisers
- Brooklyn class
- O'Higgins
- Capitán Prat
China[]

Chaoyong docked at Weihaiwei

Hai Chi on September 11, 1911 in New York City

Hai Chi on September 11, 1911 in New York City
- 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
- 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 Yung class
- Chao Ho class
- Ning Hai class
- 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[]
Main article: List of French cruisers
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
Haití[]
- Triumph - EX USS Atlanta, sunk in heavy seas 1869
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[]
Main article: List of Italian cruisers
Japan[]
Main article: List of cruisers of Japan
Netherlands[]
Main article: List of cruisers of the Netherlands
New Zealand[]
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[]
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 - Flower class sloops re-rated as cruisers
- Carvalho Araújo (1921) - Disposed of 1959
- República II (1921) - Disposed of 1943
Romania[]
- Protected cruiser
- Elisabeta (1888)
Russia/USSR[]
Main article: List of cruisers of the Russian Navy
Spain[]
Main article: List of Spanish cruisers
Sweden[]
- Armoured cruiser
- Fylgia (1905) - Sold for BU 1957
- Seaplane cruiser
- 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
- 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[]
United States[]
See List of cruisers of the United States Navy
Uruguay[]
- Protected cruisers
- Montevideo (ex-Italian Dogali ) (1885) - purchased 1908, decommissioned 1932
Yugoslavia[]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Flag, Pearl & Peace". Time magazine. July 17, 1933. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,753799,00.html. Retrieved 2010-12-18. "The cruiser Hai Chi ("Flag of the Sea") earned in 1911 the distinction of being the first Chinese war boat ever to visit the West when she steamed as near as possible to the Coronation of King George V, discharged a cargo of Chinese emissaries in gorgeous silken robes. Built in 1897 the Hai Chi and the equally venerable Hai Shen ("Pearl of the Sea") were still listed last week as the only cruisers in China's Northeastern Squadron."
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Friedman, Norman "Anti-Aircraft Cruisers: The Life of a Class" United States Naval Institute Proceedings January 1965 p.96
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