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.
Australia
;Protected cruiser- - Scuttled 1932
- - Scuttled 1924
- British Chatham class
- * - BU 1929
- * - BU 1929
- * - Sold for BU 1936
- * - BU 1949
- British Leander class
- * - Sunk 1942
- * - Sunk 1941
- * - BU 1962
- British
- * - BU 1955
- * - Sunk 1942
- * - BU 1955
Austria-Hungary
Argentina
; Torpedo cruiser- - Decommissioned 1927
- - Decommissioned 1927
- Necochea - Renamed Veinticinco de Mayo, decommissioned 1921
- - Discarded 1930
- - Retired 1932
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- * - Retired 1934
- * - Retired 1935
- * - Retired 1947
- * - Retired 1954
- * Bernardino Rivadavia - Sold to Japan before delivery 1904, renamed Kasuga, discarded 1945
- * Mariano Moreno - Sold to Japan before delivery 1904, renamed Nisshin, retired 1935
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- * - Scrapped 1960
- * - Scrapped 1962
- - Retired 1972
- * - Assigned 1951, retired 1977
- * - Assigned 1951, sunk 1982 in the Falklands War
Brazil
- Niterói - Ex El Cid, purchased 1893, sold to United States 1898 and renamed USS Buffalo
- Timbira - ?
- Tamoio - ?
- Tupi - Retired 1915
- - Retired 1915
- Tiradentes - Decommissioned 1919
- Republica - Retired 1921
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- * Name unknown - Not acquired, purchased by Chile and renamed Ministro Zenteno, decommissioned 1930
- * Almirante Barroso - Retired 1931
- * Amazonas - Not acquired, purchased by United States and renamed USS New Orleans, decommissioned 1922
- * Almirante Abreu - Not acquired, purchased by United States and renamed USS Albany, decommissioned 1922
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- * - Lost 1945
- * - BU 1948
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- * Almirante Barroso - Assigned 1951, retired 1973
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- * Almirante Tamandaré - Assigned 1951, retired 1976
Canada
- British '
- * – Sold 1920
- British '
- * – BU 1922
- British '
- * – Sold for scrap 1927
- British '
- * – Renamed Quebec 1952, BU 1961
- British
- * – BU 1960
Chile
- Arturo Prat - Sold to Japan before delivery 1883, renamed, retired 1910
- Almirante Lynch class'
- * Almirante Lynch - Renamed Tomé in 1914, retired 1919
- * Almirante Condell - Renamed Talcahuano in 1914, retired 1919
- Almirante Simpson - Sold to Ecuador in 1907 and renamed Libertador Simón Bolívar, retired ?
- - Sold to Japan 1894, renamed, discarded 1912
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- * Presidente Errázuriz - Discarded 1930
- * Presidente Pinto - Shipwreck 1905
- Blanco Encalada - Retired 1940
- Ministro Zenteno - Retired 1930
- Chacabuco - Stricken 1959
- Esmeralda - Retired 1930
- O'Higgins - Retired 1933
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- * OHiggins - Acquired 1951, retired 1991
- * Capitán Prat - Acquired 1951, retired 1982
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- * Almirante Latorre - Commissioned 1971, retired 1984
China
- Chaoyong class
- * - Sunk 1894
- * - Sunk 1894
- Kai Che - Explosion 1902
- Nan Thin class
- *
- * Nan Shuin
- Pao Min
- King Ch'ing class
- * King Ch'ing
- * Huan T'ai - Collision 1902
- Tung Chi - Sunk 1937
- Fu An
- - Captured by Japan 1895, renamed Sai Yen, mined 1904
- Chih Yuan class
- * - Sunk 1894
- * - Sunk 1895
- Hai Chi class cruiser, 4,300 ton, Armstrong
- * ' - Sunk 1904
- * ' - Sunk 1937 as blockship in Yangtze river
- Hai Yung class
- * - Sunk 1937 as blockship in Yangtze river
- * Hai Chou - Sunk 1937 as blockship in Yangtze river
- * "Pearl of the Sea" - Sunk 1937 as blockship in Yangtze river
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- * ' - Sunk 1937.
- * ' - Sunk 1937.
- King Yuan class
- * - Sunk 1894
- * - Sunk 1895
- Lung Wei - Renamed Ping Yuen
- * - Sunk 1937. Re-floated by Japan and renamed Ioshima, Sunk by.
- * - Sunk 1937. Re-floated by Japan and renamed Yasoshima. Sunk by US aircraft attack.
- British Arethusa class'
- * Chung King'' - ex- 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.
Denmark
- Fyen
- Valkyrien
- Hekla
- Gejser class
- * Gejser
- * Heimdal
France
Germany
- List of battlecruisers of Germany
- List of cruisers of Germany
Greece
- Amalia - Renamed Hellas 1862, BU 1906
- - Sold 1931
- - Torpedoed by Italian submarine 1940
- - Italian Pisa class, preserved at Faliro as museum
- II - Stricken 1964
India
- British
- * – Scrapped 1978
- British
- * – Scrapped 1985
Italy
Japan
Netherlands
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
Norway
- Viking
- Frithjof
Pakistan
- , the former British , renamed Jahangir, c. 1961
Peru
- Sócrates class'
- * Sócrates - Renamed Lima, assigned 1889, retired 1950
- * Diógenes - Renamed Callao, not delivered, purchased by the United States in 1898 and renamed USS Topeka
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- * Almirante Grau - retired 1958
- * Coronel Bolognesi - retired 1958
- Comandante Aguirre - purchased 1912, purchase canceled 1914
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- * - assigned 1959, retired 1979. Called Almirante Grau 1960-1973
- * - assigned 1960, retired 1982
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- * - assigned 1973, retired 2017
- * - assigned 1978, retired 1999
Poland
- British D class
- *
- *
Portugal
- - Sold 1933
- São Gabriel class
- * - Disposed of 1924
- * - Wrecked 1923
- Dom Carlos I - Renamed Candido Reis 1910, disposed of 1923
- Rainha Dona Amélia - Renamed República 1910, wrecked 1915
- Vasco da Gama - Disposed of 1936
- Carvalho Araújo class - sloops re-rated as cruisers
- * Carvalho Araújo - Disposed of 1959
- * República II - Disposed of 1943
Romania
Russia/USSR
Spain
Sweden
;Armoured cruiser- - Sold for BU 1957
- - converted to an anti-aircraft cruiser - BU 1963
- converted to anti-aircraft cruisers
- *
- *
Turkey/Ottoman Empire
- Yavuz Sultan Selim -purchased 1914, BU 1974
- - BU 1911
- - BU 1911
- *
- *
- *
- *
- - BU 1947
- - captured by Russian 1915, restored 1918, BU 1948
- Midilli'' - purchased 1914, mined 1918
- *
- *
United Kingdom
- List of battlecruisers of the Royal Navy
- List of cruisers of the Royal Navy
United States
Uruguay
;Protected cruiser- Montevideo - purchased 1908, decommissioned 1932
Venezuela
- Mariscal Sucre - purchased 1912, decommissioned 1940
Yugoslavia