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
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 Hiei Haruna Kirishima 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 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 .
