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List of cruisers
This is a so far incomplete list of cruisers 1879-present. It includes protected, light, armoured, battle-, heavy and missile cruisers. As this list gets longer, it will be split into countries, and types, each of which will be linked to separately on the "Cruisers" page.
Argentina
- Patagonia class cruiser
- Late 19th Century cruisers
- ARA Buenos Aires
- ARA Nueve de Julio
- ARA Veinticinco de Mayo
- ARA Patria
- Late 19th Century Armored Cruisers
- ARA General San Martín
- ARA General Belgrano
- ARA General Pueyrredón
- ARA Giuseppe Garibaldi
- Veinticinco de Mayo class
- ARA Veinticinco de Mayo
- ARA Almirante Brown
- La Argentina class cruiser
Australia
Small cruisers
- Protector
- Encounter
- British Chatham class
- Sydney (1912)
- Melbourne (1912)
- Brisbane (1915)
- Adelaide (1918)
- British Birmingham class
- Perth (1933) - Sunk 1941
- Sydney (1934) - Sunk 1941
- Hobart (1934) - BU 1962
Battlecruiser
- Australia - Scuttled 1924
Heavy cruisers
- Australia
- Canberra - Sunk 1942
- Shropshire
Brazil
Britain
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armoured cruisers
- Esmeralda - 1 ship
- General O'Higgins - 1 ship
China
Denmark
France
Early cruising ships
- Armorique (1862)
- Circé (1860)
- Flore (1869)
- Cosmao class
- Cosmao (1861)
- Dupleix (1861)
- Talisman (1862)
- Châteaurenault (1868)
- Linois (1867)
- Hirondelle (1869)
- Duguay-Trouin
- Duquesne - Stricken 1901
- Tourville - Stricken 1901
- Laperouse class
- Laperouse
- D'Estaing
- Nielly
- Primauguet
- Villars class
- Villars (1879)
- Forfait (1879)
- Magon (1880)
- Roland (1882)
- Iphigénie (1881)
- Naïade (1881)
- Aréthuse (1882)
- Dubourdieu (1884)
- Milan (1884)
- Belliqueuse (1865)
Protected cruisers
- Sfax (1884) - Stricken 1906
- Tage (1886) - Stricken 1910
- Amiral Cecille (1888) - BU 1919
- Davout (1889) - Stricken 1910
- Suchet (1893) - Stricken 1906
- Forbin class
- Forbin (1888) - BU 1921
- Coetlogon (1888) - Stricken 1906
- Surcouf (1888) - Stricken 1921
- Troude class
- Troude (1888) - Stricken 1908
- Cosmao (1889)
- Lalande (1889)
- Linois class
- Linois (1894)
- Galilee (1896)
- Lavoisier (1897) - Stricken 1920
- Alger class
- Alger (1889) - Hulked 1911
- Jean Bart (1889) - Wrecked 1907
- Isly (1891) - Stricken 1914
- Friant class
- Friant (1893) - Stricken 1920
- Chasseloup Laubat (1893)
- Bugeaud (1893) - Stricken 1907
- Descartes class
- Descartes (1894) - Stricken 1920
- Pascal (1895)
- D'Assa class
- D'Assas (1896)
- Du Chayla (1895)
- Cassard (1896) - Stricken 1924
- Catinat class
- Catinat (1896)
- Protet (1898)
- D'Entrecasteaux (1896)
- Guichen (1897) - Stricken 1922
- Chateaurenault (1898) - Sunk 1917
- D'Estrees class
- D'Estrees (1897) - Stricken 1922
- Infernet (1899) - Aground 1910
- Jurien de la Graviere (1899) - Stricken 1922
- La Tour d'Auvergne - Renamed Pluton, sank 1939
- Emile Bertin
- Duguay-Trouin class
- Duguay-Trouin - BU 1952
- Lamotte-Piquet - Sunk 1945
- Primauget - Damaged and aground, 1942
- La Galissonniere class
- La Galissonniere - Sunk 1944
- Jean de Vienne - Sunk 1943
- Marseillaise - Scuttled 1942
- Gloire
- Montcalm - BU 1970
- Georges Leygues
- Jeanne d'Arc - BU 1966
- De Grasse - BU 1976
- Colbert - Preserved at Toulouse
Armoured cruisers
- Dupuy de Lome (1890)
- Amiral Charner class
- Amiral Charner (1893) - Torpedoed 1916
- Bruix (1894) - BU 1920
- Chanzy (1894) - Wrecked 1907
- Latouche-Treville (1892) - BU 1926
- Pothuau (1895) - BU 1929
- Jeanne d'Arc (1899) - BU 1934
- Gueydon class
- Gueydon (1899) - BU 1942
- Montcalm (1900) - BU 1943
- Dupetit-Thouars (1901) - Torpedoed 1918
- Dupleix class
- Dupleix (1900) - BU 1922
- Desaix (1901) - BU 1927
- Kleber (1902) - Mined 1917
- Gloire class
- Gloire (1900) - BU
- Marseillaise (1900) - BU
- Sully (1901) - Wrecked 1905
- Condé (1902)
- Amiral Aube (1902) - BU
- Leon Gambetta class
- Leon Gambetta (1901) - Torpedoed 1915
- Jules Ferry (1903) - BU
- Victor Hugo (1904) - BU 1930
- Jules Michelet (1905)
- Ernest Renan (1906) - Stricken 1931
- Edgar Quinet class
- Edgar Quinet (1907) - Sank 1930
- Waldeck-Rousseau (1908) - BU 1941-44
Heavy cruisers
- Duquesne class
- Duquesne - BU 1955
- Tourville - BU 1962
- Suffren class
- Suffren - BU 1974
- Colbert - Scuttled 1942
- Foch - Scuttled 1942, BU 1943
- Dupleix
- Algerie - Scuttled 1942, BU 1943
Germany
Protected and light cruisers
- Zieten (1876) - BU 1921
- Blitz class
- Blitz (1882) - BU 1921
- Pfeil (1882) - BU 1922
- Greif (1886) - BU 1921
- Wacht class
- Wacht (1887) - Collision 1901
- Jagd (1888) - BU 1920
- Meteor class
- Meteor (1890) - BU 1919
- Comet (1892) - BU 1921
- Nixe (1885) - BU 1916
- Charlotte (1885)
- Schwalbe class
- Schwalbe (1887) - BU 1922
- Sperber (1889) - BU 1922
- Bussard class
- Bussard (1890) - BU 1913
- Falke (1891) - BU 1913
- Seeadler (1892) - Sunk 1917
- Condor (1892) - Stricken 1920
- Cormoran (1892) - Scuttled 1914
- Geier (1894) - Captured 1917, sunk 1918
- Kaiserin Augusta (1892) - BU 1920
- Gefion (1893) - BU 1923
- Hela (1895) - Torpedoed 1914
- Gazelle class
- Gazelle (1898) - Stricken 1920
- Niobe (1899) - Stricken 1925, sold to Yugoslavia and renamed Dalmacija, captured by Italy 1941, captured by Germany 1943, sunk
- Nymphe (1899) - Stricken 1931
- Thetis (1900) - Stricken 1929
- Ariadne (1900) - Sunk 1914
- Amazone (1900) - Stricken 1913
- Medusa (1900) - Scuttled 1945
- Frauenlob (1902) - Sunk 1916
- Arcona (1902) - Scuttled 1945
- Undine (1902) - Sunk 1915
- Bremen class
- Bremen (1903) - Mined 1915
- Hamburg (1903) - Bombed 1944, refloated, BU
- Berlin (1903) - Scuttled 1947 with poison gas shells
- Lübeck (1904) - BU 1922
- München (1904) - BU 1919
- Leipzig (1905) - Sunk at the Battle of the Falklands , 1914
- Danzig (1905) - BU 1921-23
- Konigsberg class
- Konigsberg - Scuttled 1915
- Nurnberg - Sunk 1914
- Stuttgart - BU 1921
- Stettin
- Dresden class
- Dresden - Scuttled 1915
- Emden - Wrecked 1914
- Kolberg class
- Kolberg - BU 1929
- Mainz - Sunk 1914
- Coln - Sunk 1914
- Augsberg - BU 1922
- Magdeburg class
- Magdeburg - Sunk 1914
- Breslau - Mined 1918
- Strassburg - To Italy, renamed Taranto, sunk 1943
- Stralsund - BU 1935
- Karlsruhe class
- Karlsruhe - Blew up 1914
- Rostock - Sunk 1916
- Graudenz class
- Graudenz - To Italy 1921, renamed Ancona, BU 1938
- Regensburg - To France 1920, renamed Strasbourg, recaptured 1940
- Pillau class
- Pillau - To Italy 1921, renamed Bari, sunk 1943
- Elbing - Sunk 1916
- Wiesbaden class
- Wiesbaden - Sunk in Battle of Jutland 1916
- Frankfurt - Surrendered 1918, scuttled 1921
- Konigsberg class
- Konigsberg - To France 1920
- Karlsruhe - Scuttled Scapa Flow 1919
- Emden - BU 1926
- Nurnberg - Sunk 1922
- Brummer class
- Brummer - Scuttled Scapa Flow 1919
- Bremse - Scuttled Scapa Flow 1919
- Coln class
- Coln - Scuttled Scapa Flow 1919
- Wiesbaden - BU 1920
- Dresden - Scuttled Scapa Flow 1919
- Emden - Scuttled 1945
- 'K' class
- Konigsberg - Sunk 1940
- Karlsruhe - Sunk 1940
- Koln - Sunk 1945
- Leipzig - To Britain, scuttled 1946
- Nurnberg - To Russia 1946, BU c. 1960
- 'SP' class (not built)
Armoured, battle- and heavy cruisers
- Victoria Louise class
- Victoria Louise
- Hertha
- Freya
- Vineta
- Hansa
- Fürst Bismarck - Stricken 1919
- Prinz Heinrich - Stricken 1920
- Prinz Adalbert class
- Prinz Adalbert - Torpedoed 1915
- Friedrich Carl (1902) - Mined 1914
- Roon class
- Roon (1903) - Stricken 1920
- Yorck (1904) - Mined 1914
- Scharnhorst class
- Scharnhorst - Sunk 1914
- Gneisenau - Sunk 1914
- Blücher - Sunk 1915
- Von der Tann
- Seydlitz
- Moltke class
- Moltke
- Goeben - To Turkey, renamed Yavuz, BU 1976
- Lützow - Scuttled in Battle of Jutland 1916
- Derfflinger class
- Mackensen class (not completed)
- Admiral Hipper class
- Admiral Hipper - Scuttled 1945
- Prinz Eugen - Scuttled 1946
- Blücher - Sunk 1940
- Lützow - Sold to Russia 1941, renamed
- Seydlitz (not completed) - Scuttled 1945
Greece
- Nauarchos Miaoulis (1879)
armoured cruiser
- Georgios Averoff (1911) - Italian Pisa class
Italy
Protected and light cruisers
- Giovanni Bausan (1883)
- Etna class
- Etna (1885)
- Vesuvio (1886)
- Stromboli (1886)
- Ettore Fieramosca (1888)
- Dogali (1885) - Sold to Uruguay 1908 and renamed Montevideo, BU 1932
- Piemonte (1888)
- Umbria class
- Umbria (1891)
- Lombardia (1890)
- Etruria (1891) - Sank 1918
- Liguria (1893)
- Elba (1893)
- Puglia (1898)
- Calabria (1894)
- Libia
- Quarto
- Taranto (ex-German Strassburg) - Sunk 1944
- Bari (ex-German Pillau) - Sunk 1943, BU 1948
- Brindisi (ex-Austrian Helgoland) - BU
- Venezia (ex-Austrian Saida) - BU
- Ancona (ex-German Graudenz) - BU
- Di Giussano class
- Alberico da Barbiano (1930) - Sunk 1941
- Alberto di Giussano (1930) - Sunk 1941
- Bartolomeo Colleoni (1930) - Sunk 1940
- Giovanni delle Bande Nere (1930) - Sunk 1942
- Cadorna class
- Luigi Cadorna (1931) - BU 1950s
- Armando Diaz (1931) - Sunk 1941
- Montecuccoli class
- Raimondo Montecuccoli (1934) - BU 1960s
- Muzio Attendolo (1934) - Sunk 1942
- Duca d'Aosta class
- Emmanuele Filiberto Duca D'Aosta (1934) - Sold to Russia 1949
- Eugenio di Savoia (1935) - Sold to Greece 1951 to replace Hella
- Duca degli Abruzzi class
- Capitani Romani class (Only those units marked * were completed)
- Attilio Regolo (1940)* - Sold to France 1948 and renamed Chateaurenault
- Scipione Africano (1941)* - Sold to France 1948 and renamed Guichen
- Pompeo Magno (1941)* - Surrendered 1943
- Ulpio Traiano (1942) - Torpedoed 1943
- Ottaviano Augusto (1942) - Sunk 1943
- Cornelio Silla (1941) - Sunk 1944
- Claudio Druso (-) - BU
- Caio Mario (1941) - Scuttled 1943/44
- Paolo Emilio (-) - BU
- Vipsania Agrippa (-) - BU
- Giulio Germanico (1941)Renamed San Marco, BU 1971/80
- Claudio Tiberio (-)
- Etna class (not completed)
- Etna (1942) - Scuttled 1943, refloated
- Vesuvio (1941) - Scuttled 1943, refloated
- Cattaro (ex-Yugoslav Dalmacija, captured 1941, ex-German Niobe, purchased 1924) - Torpedoed 1943
- FR 11 (ex-French Jean de Vienne, captured 1943) - Captured by Germany 1943, sunk 1944
- FR 12 (ex-French La Galissonniere, captured 1943) - Captured by Germany 1943, sunk 1944
Armoured cruisers
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- Vettor Pisani class
- Vettor Pisani
- Carlo Alberto
- Giuseppe Garibaldi class
- Giuseppe Garibaldi - To Argentina
- Varese - To Argentina
- Varese - To Argentina
- Giuseppe Garibaldi - To Spain as Cristobal Colon, sunk 1898
- Giuseppe Garibaldi - To Argentina
- Varese (1899)
- Giuseppe Garibaldi (1899)
- Francesco Ferruccio (1902)
- ? - To Japan as Kasuga
- ? - To Japan as Nisshin
- Pisa class
- San Marco class
- San Marco - Sunk c.1944
- San Giorgio - Sunk 1941
Heavy cruisers
Japan
Small cruisers
- Naniwa class
- Unebi (1886)
- Matsushima class
- Matsushima
- Hashidate
- Itsukushima
- Akitsushima (1892)
- Yoshino (1892)
- Idzumi (1883)
- Suma class
- Suma (1895)
- Akashi (1897)
- Takasago (1897)
- Chitose class
- Tsushima class
- Otowa
Armoured cruisers
- Chiyoda (1890)
- Asama class
- Asama (1898)
- Tokiwa (1898)
- Yakumo (1899)
- Adzuma (1899)
- Idzumo class
- Idzumo (1899)
- Iwate (1900)
- Kasuga class (modified Italian Giuseppe Garibaldi class)
- Kasuga (1902)
- Nisshin (1903)
Battlecruisers
- Kongo class
- Kongo (1912) - Torpedoed and blew up, 1944
- Hiei (1912) - Sunk 1942
- Haruna (1913) - Bombed 1945, BU 1946
- Kirishima (1913) Damaged and scuttled, 1942
Netherlands
Protected and light cruisers
- Sumatra (1890)
- Koningin Wilhelmina der Nederlanden (1892)
- Holland class
- Holland (1896)
- Zeeland (1897)
- Friesland (1896)
- Gelderland (1898)
- Noordbrabant (1899)
- Utrecht (1898)
- Sumatra class
- De Ruyter class light cruiser
- Tromp class light cruisers
- Zeven Provinciën class light cruisers
- HNLMS De Ruyter (1944) - Sold to Peru in 1973 and renamed Almirante Grau
- HNLMS Zeven Provinciën (1950) - Sold to Peru in 1975 and renamed Almirante Aguirre
New Zealand
- Achilles - formerly British Achilles
Norway
Protected cruisers
- Viking (1891)
- Frithjof (1896)
Peru
Former merchant ships
- Socrates class (ex-Portuguese)
- Socrates (1880) - Renamed Lima
- Diogenes (1881) - Not delivered, purchased by Japan 1895 but not delivered, renamed Topeka
Poland
Portugal
- Adamastor (1896)
- Sao Gabriel class
- Sao Gabriel (1898)
- Sao Rafael (1898)
- Dom Carlos I (1898)
- Rainha Dona Amelia (1899) - Renamed Republica
Romania
Protected cruiser
Russia/USSR
Small cruisers
- Askold class
- Askold (1863)
- Variag (1862)
- Vitiaz (1862)
- Pamiat Merkuria (1879)
- Vitiaz class
- Vitiaz (1884) - Wrecked 1893
- Rynda (1885)
- Admiral Kornilov (1887)
- Svietlana (1896) - Sunk at the Battle of Tsushima 1905
- Pallada class
- Pallada (1899) - Sunk 1904, captured by Japan, refloated, renamed Tsugaru, BU 1923
- Diana (1899) - BU 1922
- Aurora (1900) - Preserved St Petersburg
- Variag (1899) - BU 1921
- Askold (1900) - BU 1921
- Bogatyr class
- Bogatyr (1901) - BU 1922
- Kagul (1902)
- Pamiat Merkuria (1903) - Renamed Komintern, Sunk 1942
- Oleg (1903) - Torpedoed 1919
- Novik (1900) - Damaged and scuttled, 1904, captured by Japan, refloated, renamed Suzuya
- Boyarin (1901) - Sunk 1904
- Izumrud class
- Izumrud (1903) - Wrecked 1905
- Zemtchug (1903) - Sunk 1914
- Svetlana class
- Svetlana (1915) - Renamed Profintern, BU 1960
- Admiral Spiridov (1916)
- Admiral Greig (1916) - Aground 1938
- Admiral Nakhimov class
- Admiral Nakhimov (1916) - Renamed Chervona Ukraina 1926, sank 1941
- Admiral Lazarev (1916) - Renamed Krasni Kavkaz 1932
- Murmansk (ex-Milwaukee)
Armoured cruisers
- General Admiral class
- General Admiral (1873) - BU 1940
- Gerzog Edinburgski (1875)
- Vladimir Monomakh (1882) - Torpedoed at the Battle of Tsushima 1905
- Dmitri Donskoi (1883) - Scuttled after the Battle of Tsushima 1905
- Admiral Nakhimov (1885) - Torpedoed and scuttled at the Battle of Tsushima, 1905
- Pamiat Azova (1888) - Torpedoed 1919
- Rurik (1892) - Sunk 1904
- Rossia (1896) - BU 1922
- Gromoboi (1899) - BU 1922
- Bayan class
- Bayan (1900)
- Admiral Makarov (1908)
- Pallada (1906) - Torpedoed 1914
- Bayan (1907)
- Rurik (1906) - BU 1923
Heavy cruisers
- Kirov class
- Kirov (1936)
- Voroshilov (1935) - BU 1960s
- Maksim Gorkyy class
- Maksim Gorkyy (1938) - BU 1958
- Molotov (1939) - Renamed Slava 1958
- Kaganovich (1943)
- Kalinin (1943)
- Chapaev class - 10 ships
- Chapaev (1940)
- Zhelezniakov (1940)
- Frunze (1940)
- Kuibyshev (1941)
- Chkalov (1948)
- Sverdlov class - 14 ships
- 'Kynda' class - 4 ships
- 'Kresta I' class - 4 ships
- 'Kresta II' class - 10 ships
- 'Kara' class - 7 ships
- Slava class - 3 ships
- Kirov class - 4 ships
Spain
Protected cruisers
- Isla de Luzon class
- Reina Regente class
- Reina Regente (1887)
- Alfonso XIII (1891)
- Lepanto (1892)
- Rio de la Plata (1898)
- Estremadura (1900)
- Reina Regente (1906)
First class cruisers
- Aragon class
- Alfonso XII class
Small cruisers
- Velasco class
- Velasco (1881)
- Gravina (1881) - Sank 1885
- Infanta Isabel (1885)
- Isabel II (1886)
- Cristobal Colon (1887) - Sank 1895
- Don Juan de Austria (1887) - Sunk at the Battle of Manila Bay, 1898
- Don Antonio Uloa (1887) - Sunk at the Battle of Manila Bay, 1898
- Conde del Venadito (1888)
Armoured cruisers
- Infanta Maria Teresa class
- Princesa de Asturias class
- Princesa de Asturias (1896)
- Cardenal Jimenez de Cisneros (1897) - Wrecked 1905
- Cataluña (1900)
- Cristobal Colon (Italian Guiseppe Garibaldi class) - Sunk at Battle of Santiago de Cuba, 1898
- Emperador Carlos V (1895)
Heavy cruisers
Sweden
Armoured cruiser
- Fylgia (1905)
- Gotland
- ? class
United States
See List of cruisers of the United States Navy.
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