List of cruisers

Australia

Small cruisers

Protector (1883/84, South Australia) - Abandoned aground c. 1943

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)

Kaiser Karl VI (1898)

Sankt Georg (1903)

Protected cruisers

Kaiser Franz Joseph I class

Kaiser Franz Joseph I

Kaiserin Elisabeth

Zenta class

Zenta

Aspern

Szigetvár

Scout cruisers

Admiral Spaun (1910)

Novara class

Saida (1914)

Helgoland (1914)

Novara (1915)

Torpedo cruisers

Zara class

Zara

Sebenico

Spalato

Lussin

Panther class

Panther

Leopard

Tiger

Argentina

Torpedo cruiser

Patria (1893) - Decommissioned 1927

Protected cruisers

Patagonia (1886) - Decommissioned 1927

Necochea (1890) - Renamed Veinticinco de Mayo, decommissioned 1921

Nueve de Julio (1892) - Discarded 1930

Buenos Aires (1895) - Retired 1932

Armored cruisers

Giuseppe Garibaldi class

Garibaldi (1895) - Retired 1934

San Martín (1896) - Retired 1935

General Belgrano (1897) - Retired 1947

Pueyrredón (1897) - Retired 1954

Bernardino Rivadavia (1902) - Sold to Japan before delivery 1904, renamed Kasuga, discarded 1945

Mariano Moreno (1903) - Sold to Japan before delivery 1904, renamed Nisshin, retired 1935

Heavy cruisers

Veinticinco de Mayo class

Veinticinco de Mayo (1929) - Scrapped 1960

Almirante Brown (1929) - Scrapped 1962

Light cruisers

La Argentina (1937) - Retired 1972

Brooklyn class

Nueve de Julio (1936, ex-USS Boise) - Assigned 1951, retired 1977

General Belgrano (1938, ex-USS Phoenix) - Assigned 1951, sunk 1982 in the Falklands War

Brazil

Former merchant ships

Niterói (1893) - Sold to EE.UU 1898

Torpedo cruisers

Timbira (1896) - ?

Tamoio (1896) - ?

Tupi (1896) - Retired 1915

Protected cruisers

Almirante Tamandaré (1890) - Retired 1915

Tiradentes (1892) - Decommissioned 1919

Republica (1892) - Retired 1921

Almirante Barroso (1896) - Retired 1931

Name unknown (1896) - Not acquired, purchased by Chile and renamed Ministro Zenteno, decommissioned 1930

Amazonas (1896) - Not acquired, purchased by EE.UU and renamed USS New Orleans, decommissioned 1922

4 du Julliet (1897) - Not acquired, purchased by Chile and renamed Chacabuco, stricken 1959

Almirante Abreu (1899) - Not acquired, purchased by EE.UU and renamed USS Albany, decommissioned 1922

Light cruisers

Bahia class

Bahia (1909) - Lost 1945

Rio Grande do Sul (1910) - BU 1948

Brooklyn class

Almirante Barroso (1936, ex-USS Philadelphia) - Assigned 1951, retired 1973

St. Louis class

Almirante Tamandaré (1938, ex-USS St. Louis) - Assigned 1951, retired 1976

Canada

Protected cruiser

British Apollo class

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

British Diadem class

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

Light cruisers

British Arethusa class

Aurora

British Crown Colony class

Uganda (1941) - Renamed Quebec, BU 1961

British Minotaur class

Ontario (was HMS Minotaur) (1943) - BU 1960

Chile

Torpedo cruisers

Arturo Prat (1880) - Sold to Japan before delivery 1883, renamed Tsukushi, retired 1910

Almirante Lynch (1890) - Renamed Tom in 1914, retired 1919

Almirante Condell (1890) - Renamed Talcahuano in 1914, retired 1919

Almirante Simpson (1896) - Sold to Ecuador in 1907 and renamed Libertador Simón Bolívar, retired ?

Protected cruisers

Esmeralda (1883) - Sold to Japan 1894, renamed Izumi, discarded 1912

Presidente Errazuriz (1890) - Discarded 1930

Presidente Pinto (1890) - Shipwreck 1905

Blanco Encalada (1893) - Retired 1940

Ministro Zenteno (1896) - Retired 1930

Chacabuco (1897) - Stricken 1959

Armored cruisers

Capitán Prat (1890) - Discarded 1942

Esmeralda (1895) - Retired 1930

O'Higgins (1896) - Retired 1933

Light cruisers

Brooklyn class

O'Higgins (1936, ex-USS Brooklyn) - Acquired 1951, retired 1991

Capitán Prat (1937, ex-USS Nashville) - Acquired 1951, retired 1982

Tre Kronor

Almirante Latorre (1945, ex-Swedish Göta Lejon) - Commissioned 1971, retired 1984

China

Chaoyung class

Chaoyong (1880) - Sunk 1894

Yangwei (1881) - Sunk 1894

Jiyuan (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 Yuen (1886) - Sunk 1894

Ching Yuen (1886) - Sunk 1895

King Yuan class

King Yuen (1887) - Sunk 1894

Laiyuan (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) - Sunk 1937 as blockship in Yangtze river

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

Chao Ho class

Chao Ho (1912) - Sunk 1937.

Ying Swei (1913) - Sunk 1937.

Ning Hai class

Ning Hai (1931) - Sunk 1937. Re-floated by Japan and renamed Ioshima, Sunk by USS Shad.

Ping Hai (1931) - Sunk 1937. Re-floated by Japan and renamed Yasoshima. Sunk by US aircraft attack.

Chung King class

Chung King (1948) - Arethusa-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy HMS Aurora, 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 (1882)

Valkyrien (1888)

Hekla (1890)

Gejser class

Gejser (1892)

Heimdal (1894)

Germany

List of battlecruisers of Germany

List of cruisers of Germany

Greece

Amalia (1861) - Renamed Hellas 1862, BU 1906

Navarchos Miaoulis (1879) - Sold 1931

Elli (1912, purchased 1914) - Torpedoed by Italian submarine 1940

Giorgios 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 HMNZS Achilles

Mysore (purchased 1957), decommissioned, the former British Crown Colony class HMS Nigeria

New Zealand

Achilles - Formerly British Achilles

Leander - Formerly British Leander

HMNZS Gambia-Formerly British Gambia

HMNZS Black Prince-Formerly British Black Prince

HMNZS Bellona-Formerly British Bellona

Royalist - Formerly British Royalist

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, assigned 1889, retired 1950

Diógenes (1881) - Renamed Callao, not delivered, purchased by the United States in 1889, renamed USS Topeka

Armored cruiser

Comandante Aguirre (ex-French Dupuy de Lôme) (1890) - purchased 1912, purchase canceled 1914

Light cruisers

Almirante Grau class

Almirante Grau (1906) - retired 1958

Coronel Bolognesi (1906) - retired 1958

Crown Colony class

Capitán Quiñones (1941, ex-British HMS Newfoundland) - assigned 1959, retired 1979. Called Almirante Grau 1960-1973

Coronel Bolognesi (1942, ex-British HMS Ceylon) - assigned 1960, retired 1982

De Zeven Provinciën class

Almirante Grau (1944, ex-Dutch HNLMS De Ruyter) - assigned 1973, active

Aguirre (1950, ex-Dutch HNLMS De Zeven Provinciën) - assigned 1978, retired 1999

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 - Flower-class sloops re-rated as cruisers

Carvalho Araújo (1921) - Disposed of 1959

República II (1921) - Disposed of 1943

Romania

Protected cruiser

Elisabeta (1888)

Sweden

Armoured cruiser

Fylgia (1905) - Sold for BU 1957

Seaplane cruiser

Gotland (1933) - converted to an anti-aircraft cruiser - BU 1963

Light cruisers

Tre Kronor class converted to anti-aircraft cruisers

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 Sultan Selim (ex-German Goeben) (1912) -purchased 1914, BU 1974

Unprotected cruisers

Lütf-ü Hümanyun (1892) - BU 1911

Heibetnuma (1892) - BU 1911

Feyzâ-i Bahri class

Feyzâ-i Bahri (unfinished)

Şadiye (unfinished)

Hüdâvendigâr class

Hüdâvendigâr (unfinished)

Selimiye (unfinished)

Protected cruisers

Hamidiye (Abdul Hamid) (1903) - BU 1947

Mecidiye (1903) - captured by Russian 1915, restored 1918, BU 1948

Light cruisers

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

Torpedo cruisers

Peyk-i Şevket class

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 cruiser

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

Venezuela

Protected cruiser

Mariscal Sucre (ex-Spanish Isla de Cuba) (1886) - purchased 1912, decommissioned 1940

Yugoslavia

Dalmacija (the former German SMS Niobe)