List of cruisers

This is a so far incomplete list of cruisers 1860-present. It includes protected, light, armoured, battle-, heavy and missile cruisers. Dates are launching dates.

Argentina

* "Patagonia" (1885)
* "Necochea" (1890) - Renamed "Veinticinco de Mayo"
* "Nueve de Julio" (1892)
* "Buenos Aires" (1895)
* Italian Giuseppe Garibaldi class
** "General Garibaldi" (1895)
** "General San Martín" (1896)
** "General Belgrano" (1897)
** "General Pueyrredón" (1897)
* Veinticinco de Mayo class
** "Veinticinco de Mayo" (1929) - BU 1962
** "Almirante Brown" (1929) - BU 1962
* "La Argentina" (1939) - BU 1974
* Brooklyn class
** "ARA Nueve De Julio" (1951) - Scrapped 1978
** "ARA General Belgrano" (1951) - Sunk 1982 in the Falklands War----

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 1941
** "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

"Light cruiser"
* "Admiral Spaun" (1910)
* Novara class
** "Saida" (1914)
** "Helgoland" (1914)
** "Novara" (1915)

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Brazil

* "Almirante Tamandaré" (1890), named after the Marquis of Tamandaré
* "Benjamin Constant" (1892)
* "Republica" (1892)
* "Almirante Barroso" (1896)
* Bahia class
** "Bahia" (1909) - Lost 1945
** "Rio Grande do Sul" (1910) - BU 1948
* Brooklyn class
** "Almirante Barroso" (1951) - later renamed "Barroso"----

Canada

"Protected cruiser"
* British Apollo class
** "Rainbow" (1891, ex-British "Rainbow", obtained 1910) - Sold 1920

"Light cruisers"
* British Arethusa class
** "Aurora"
* British Ceylon class
** "Uganda" (1941) - Renamed "Quebec", BU 1961
* British Minotaur class
** "Ontario" (was HMS "Minotaur") (1943) - BU 1960

"Armored cruiser"
* British Diadem class
** "Niobe" (1897, ex-British "Niobe", obtained 1910) - BU 1922----

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
* "General O'Higgins" (1897) - Discarded 1946/54

"Light cruisers"
* Brooklyn class
** "O'Higgins"
** "Capitán Prat"

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China

* 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
** "King Yuan" (1887) - Sunk 1894
** "Lai Yuan" (1887) - Sunk 1895
* "Lung Wei" (1888) - Renamed "Ping Yuen"
* Tung Chi class
** "Tung Chi" (1895) - Sunk 1937
** "Fu An" (1894)
* Hai Tien class
** "Hai Tien" (1897) - Sunk 1904
** "Hai Chi" (1898) - Sunk 1937
* Hai Yung class
** "Hai Yung" (1897)
** "Hai Chou" (1897)
** "Hai Chen" (1898)
* Chung King class
** "Chung King" (1948) - Arethusa-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy HMS Aurora (12), Sold on 19 May 1948 to the Nationalist Chinese Navy, Defected to Chinese Communists in 1949, Continued in service until mid 1950s----

Denmark

* "Fyen" (1882)
* "Valkyrien" (1888)
* "Hekla" (1890)
* Gejser class
** "Gejser" (1892)
** "Heimdal" (1894)----

France

"Early cruising ships"
* "Circé" (1860) - Stricken 1875
* "Guerrière" (1860) - Stricken 1888
* "Hermione" (1860) - Training ship 1877
* "Pallas" (1860) - Hulked 1883
* "Sémiramis" (1861) - Stricken 1877
* "Junon" (1861) - Stricken 1876
* "Magicienne" (1861) - Stricken 1886
* "Victoire" (1861) - Stricken 1880
* "Armorique" (1862) - Hulked 1884
* "Thémis" (1862) - Stricken 1882
* "Flore" (1869) - Stricken 1886
* Cosmao class
** "Cosmao" (1861) - Stricken 1881
** ""Dupleix" (1861) - Stricken 1887
* "Talisman" (1862)
* "Châteaurenault" (1868)
* "Linois" (1867)
* "Hirondelle" (1869) - Stricken 1896
* "Duguay-Trouin" (1877)
* "Duquesne" (1876) - Stricken 1901
* "Tourville" (1876) - Stricken 1901
* Laperouse class
** "Laperouse" (1877) - Wrecked 1898
** "D'Estaing" (1879) - Stricken 1901
** "Nielly" (1880) - Stricken 1902
** "Primauguet" (1882) - Stricken 1901
* Villars class
** "Villars" (1879) - Stricken 1896
** "Forfait" (1879) - Stricken 1897
** "Magon" (1880) - Stricken 1896
** "Roland" (1882) - Stricken 1898
* "Iphigénie" (1881) - Stricken 1905
* "Naïade" (1881) - Stricken 1900
* "Aréthuse" (1882) - Hulked 1899
* "Dubourdieu" (1884) - Stricken 1899
* "Milan" (1884) - Stricken 1908
* "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) - Stricken 1911
* D'Assas class
** "D'Assas" (1896) - Stricken 1914
** "Du Chayla" (1895) - Stricken 1921
** "Cassard" (1896) - Stricken 1924
* Catinat class
** "Catinat" (1896) - Stricken 1911
** "Protet" (1898) - Stricken 1910
* "D'Entrecasteaux" (1896) - To Belgium 1922
* "Guichen" (1897) - Stricken 1922
* "Chateaurenault" (1898) - Torpedoed 1917
* D'Estrees class
** "D'Estrees" (1897) - Stricken 1922
** "Infernet" (1899) - Aground 1910
* "Jurien de la Graviere" (1899) - Stricken 1922
* Duguay-Trouin class
** "Duguay-Trouin" (1923) - BU 1952
** "Lamotte-Piquet" (1924) - Sunk 1945
** "Primauguet" (1924) - Damaged and aground, 1942
* "Pluton" (1929) - Intended to be renamed as "La Tour d'Auvergne"), destroyed in accident 1939
* "Jeanne d'Arc" (1930) - BU 1966
* "Emile Bertin" (1933) - BU 1959
* La Galissonniere class
** "La Galissonniere" (1933) - Scuttled 1942, sunk 1944, BU 1952
** "Jean de Vienne" (1935) - Scuttled 1942, sunk 1943, BU 1952
** "Marseillaise"(1935) - Scuttled 1942, BU 1946
** "Gloire" (1935) - BU 1958
** "Montcalm" (1935) - BU 1970
** "Georges Leygues" (1936) - BU 1959
* "De Grasse" (1946) - BU 1976
* "Colbert" (1956) - Preserved at Bordeaux

"Armoured cruisers"
* "Dupuy de Lome" (1890) - Renamed "Peruvier", to "Belgium" 1920
* 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) - Stricken 1922
** "Marseillaise" (1900) - Stricken 1929
** "Sully" (1901) - Wrecked 1905
** "Condé" (1902) - Stricken 1933
** "Amiral Aube" (1902) - Stricken 1922
* Leon Gambetta class
** Leon Gambetta (1901) - Torpedoed 1915
** "Jules Ferry" (1903) - Stricken 1927
** "Victor Hugo" (1904) - BU 1930
* "Jules Michelet" (1905) - Stricken 1937
* "Ernest Renan" (1906) - Stricken 1931
* Edgar Quinet class
** "Edgar Quinet" (1907) - Sank 1930
** "Waldeck-Rousseau" (1908) - BU 1941-44

"Heavy cruisers"
* Duquesne class
** "Duquesne" (1925) - BU 1955
** "Tourville" (1926) - BU 1962
* Suffren class
** "Suffren" (1927) - BU 1974
** "Colbert" (1928) - Scuttled 1942, BU 1947
** "Foch" (1929) - Scuttled 1942, BU 1943
** "Dupleix" (1930) - Scuttled 1942, sunk 1944
* "Algérie" (1930) - 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
* Königsberg class
** "Königsberg" (1905) - Scuttled 1915
** "Nürnberg" (1908) - Sunk 1914
** "Stuttgart" (1906) - BU 1921
** "Stettin" (1907) - BU 1921-23
* Nautilus class
** "Nautilus" (1906) - BU 1928
** "Albatross" (1907) - Sunk 1915, BU 1921
* Dresden class
** "Dresden" (1907) - Scuttled 1915
** "Emden" (1908) - Wrecked 1914
* Kolberg class
** "Kolberg" (1908) - BU 1929
** "Mainz" (1909) - Sunk 1914
** "Köln" (1909) - Sunk 1914
** "Augsburg" (1909) - BU 1922
* Magdeburg class
** "Magdeburg" (1911) - Sunk 1914
** "Breslau" (1911) - Mined 1918
** "Strassburg" (1911) - To Italy, renamed "Taranto", sunk 1943
** "Stralsund" (1911) - BU 1935
* Karlsruhe class
** "Karlsruhe" (1912) - Blew up 1914
** "Rostock" (1912) - Sunk 1916
* Graudenz class
** "Graudenz" (1913) - To Italy 1921, renamed "Ancona", BU 1938
** "Regensburg" (1914) - To France 1920, renamed "Strasbourg", recaptured 1940, BU 1944
* Pillau class
** "Pillau" (1914) - To Italy 1921, renamed "Bari", sunk 1943
** "Elbing" (1914) - Sunk at the Battle of Jutland, 1916
* Wiesbaden class
** "Wiesbaden" (1915) - Sunk at the Battle of Jutland, 1916
** "Frankfurt" (1915) - Surrendered 1918, scuttled 1921
* Königsberg class
** "Königsberg" (1915) - To France 1920
** "Karlsruhe" (1916) - Scuttled Scapa Flow 1919
** "Emden" (1916) - BU 1926
** "Nürnberg" (1916) - Sunk 1922
* Brummer class
** "Brummer" (1915) - Scuttled Scapa Flow 1919
** "Bremse" (1916) - Scuttled Scapa Flow 1919
* Köln class
** "Köln" (1916) - Scuttled Scapa Flow 1919
** "Wiesbaden" (1917) - BU 1920
** "Dresden" (1917) - Scuttled Scapa Flow 1919
* "Emden" (1926) - Scuttled 1945, BU 1947
* 'K' class
** "Königsberg" (1927) - Sunk 1940
** "Karlsruhe" (1927) - Sunk 1940
** "Köln" (1928) - Sunk 1945
* "Leipzig" (1929) - To Britain, scuttled 1946
* "Nürnberg" (1934) - To Russia 1946, BU c. 1960
* Spähkreuzer 1938 (not built)
** "SP 1"
** "SP 2"
** "SP 3"
* M class cruiser (not built
** "M"
** "N"
** "O"
** "P"
** "Q"
** "R"

Armoured cruisers
* Victoria Louise class
** "Victoria Louise" (1897) - BU 1923
** "Hertha" (1897) - BU 1920
** "Freya" (1897) - BU 1921
** "Vineta" (1897) - BU 1920
** "Hansa" (1898) - BU 1920
* "Fürst Bismarck" (1897) - BU 1919-20
* "Prinz Heinrich" (1900) - BU 1920
* Prinz Adalbert class
** "Prinz Adalbert" (1901) - Torpedoed 1915
** "Friedrich Carl" (1902) - Mined 1914
* Roon class
** "Roon" (1903) - BU 1921
** "Yorck" (1904) - Mined 1914
* Scharnhorst class
** "Scharnhorst" (1906) - Sunk at the Battle of the Falklands, 1914
** "Gneisenau" (1906) - Sunk at the Battle of the Falklands, 1914
* "Blücher" (1908) - Sunk at the Battle of Dogger Bank, 1915

Battlecruisers
* Von der Tann (1909) - Scuttled Scapa Flow 1919
* Moltke class
** "Moltke" (1910) - Scuttled Scapa Flow 1919
** "Goeben" (1911) - To Turkey 1914, renamed "Yavuz", BU 1971/76
* "Seydlitz" (1912) - Scuttled Scapa Flow 1919
* Derfflinger class
** "Derfflinger" (1913) - Scuttled Scapa Flow 1919
** "Lützow" (1913) - Scuttled after heavy damage at the Battle of Jutland, 1916
** "Hindenburg" (1915) - Scuttled Scapa Flow 1919
* Mackensen class (not completed)
** "Mackensen" (1917) - BU 1923-24
** "Graf Spee" (1920) - BU 1921-22
** "Prinz Eitel Friedrich" - BU 1921/22
** "Fürst Bismarck" - BU 1921/22
* Ersatz Yorck class (not completed)
** "Ersatz Yorck"
** "Ersatz Gneisenau"
** "Ersatz Sharnhorst"
* Kreuzer P Class (not built)
* O class battlecruiser (not built)
** "O"
** "P"
** "Q"

Heavy cruisers
* Deutschland class
** "Deutschland" (1931) - Later renamed "Lützow", scuttled in 1945.
** "Admiral Scheer" (1933) - Sunk 1945
** "Admiral Graf Spee" (1934) - scuttled 1939.
* Admiral Hipper class
** "Admiral Hipper" (1937) - Scuttled 1945, BU post-war
** "Prinz Eugen" (1938) - Surrendered 1945, expended in US A-bomb tests 1946
** "Blücher" (1937) - Sunk 1940
** "Lützow" (1939) - Sold to Russia 1941, renamed first "Petropavlovsk", then "Tallinn"
** "Seydlitz" (1939) (not completed) - Scuttle attempt failed 1945, fate uncertain.----

Greece

* "Amalia" (1861) - Renamed "Hellas" 1862, BU 1906
* "Navarhos Miaoulis" (1879) - Sold 1931
* "Elli" (1912, purchased 1914) - Torpedoed by Italian submarine 1940
* "Georgios Averof" (1910) - Italian "Pisa" class, preserved at Poros as museum
* "Elli II" (1935, ex-Italian "Eugenio di Savoia", obtained in 1951 as war reparations) - Stricken 1964----

Italy

"Protected and light cruisers"
* "Giovanni Bausan" (1883) - Sold 1920
* Etna class
** "Etna" (1885) - Sold 1921
** "Vesuvio" (1886) - Sold 1911
** "Stromboli" (1886) - Sold 1907
** "Ettore Fieramosca" (1888) - Sold 1909
* "Dogali" (1885) - Sold to Uruguay 1908 and renamed "Montevideo", BU 1932
* "Piemonte" (1888) - Sold 1920
* Umbria class
** "Umbria" (1891)
** "Lombardia" (1890) - Sold 1920
** "Etruria" (1891) - Sank 1918
** "Liguria" (1893) - Sold 1921
** "Elba" (1893)
** "Puglia" (1898) - Disposed of 1923, front of ship preserved Gardone
* "Calabria" (1894) - Disposed of 1924
* "Libia" (1912) - Was building for Turkey as "Drama". BU 1937
* Campania class
** "Basilicata" (1914) - Sank after explosion in 1919, refloated 1920, BU 1921
** Campania (1914) - Stricken 1937
* "Quarto" (1911) - Sold 1938, BU after 1939
* Nino Bixio class
** "Nino Bixio" (1911) - Stricken 1929, BU
** "Marsala" (1912) - Stricken 1927, BU
* "Taranto" (1911, ex-German "Strassburg") - scuttled 1943, sunk 1943 & 1944, BU 1946 or later
* "Bari" (1914, ex-German "Pillau") - Sunk 1943, BU 1948
* "Brindisi" (ex-Austrian "Helgoland") - Stricken 1937, BU
* "Venezia" (ex-Austrian "Saida") - Stricken 1937, BU
* "Ancona" (ex-German "Graudenz") - Stricken 1937, 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" (1932) - Sunk 1941
* Montecuccoli class
** "Raimondo Montecuccoli" (1934) - BU 1960s
** "Muzio Attendolo" (1934) - Sunk 1942
* Duca d'Aosta class
** "Emmanuele Filiberto Duca D'Aosta" (1934) - Transferred to Soviet Union 1949, renamed first "Stalingrad", than "Kerch"
** "Eugenio di Savoia" (1935) - Transferred to Greece 1951, renamed "Helli"
* Duca degli Abruzzi class
** "Luigi di Savoia Duca degli Abruzzi" (1936) - BU 1961 or later
** "Giuseppe Garibaldi" (1936) - BU 1970s
* 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, BU postwar
** "Vesuvio" (1941) - Scuttled 1943, refloated, BU postwar
* "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"
* "Marco Polo" (1892) - Sold for BU 1922
* Vettor Pisani class
** "Vettor Pisani" (1895) - Discarded 1920
** "Carlo Alberto" (1896) - Discarded 1920
* Giuseppe Garibaldi class
** "Giuseppe Garibaldi" (1895) - To Argentina as "General Garibaldi", BU 1935
** "Varese" (1896) - To Argentina as "General San Martin", BU 1935
** "Varese" (1897) - To Argentina as "General Belgrano", BU 1948
** "Giuseppe Garibaldi" (c. 1896) - To Spain as "Cristobal Colon" 1897, sunk at the Battle of Santiago de Cuba, 1898
** "Giuseppe Garibaldi" (1897) - To Argentina as "General Pueyrredon", removed 1954
** "Varese" (1899)
** "Giuseppe Garibaldi" (1899)
** "Francesco Ferruccio" (1902)
** ? (1902) - To Japan as "Kasuga"
** ? (1903) - To Japan as "Nisshin"
* Pisa class
** "Pisa" (1907) - Sold 1937
** "Amalfi" (1908) - Torpedoed 1915
* San Marco class
** "San Marco" (1908) - Captured by Germany 1943, sunk c. 1944
** "San Giorgio" (1908) - Scuttled 1941

"Heavy cruisers"
* Trento class
** "Trento" (1927) - Sunk 1942
** "Trieste" (1926) - Sunk 1943
* Zara class
** "Zara" (1930) - Sunk 1941
** "Pola" (1931) - Sunk 1941
** "Fiume" (1930) - Sunk 1941
** "Gorizia" (1930) - Sunk 1944
* "Bolzano" (1932) - Sunk 1944----

Japan

"Small cruisers"
* Naniwa class
** "Naniwa" (1885) - Wrecked 1912
** "Takachiho" (1885) - Torpedoed 1914
* "Unebi" (1886) - Sank 1887
* Matsushima class
** "Matsushima" (1890) - Explosion 1908
** "Itsukushima" (1889) - BU 1922
** "Hashidate" (1891) - BU 1927
* "Akitsushima" (1892)
* "Yoshino" (1892) - Sunk 1905
* "Izumi" (1883) - Discarded 1912 (ex-Chilean "Esmeralda"
* "Saien" (1883, ex-Chinese "Chi Yuan", captured 1895) - Mined 1904
* Suma class
** "Suma" (1895) - BU 1928
** "Akashi" (1897) - Scuttled 1930
* "Takasago" (1897) - Mined 1904
* Chitose class
** "Chitose" (1898) - Sunk as target 1931
** "Kasagi" (1898) - Lost 1916
* Niitaka class
** "Niitaka" (1902) - Lost 1922
** "Tsushima" (1902) - Lost 1944
* "Otowa" (1903) - Wrecked 1917
* "Tone" (1910)
* Chikuma class
** "Chikuma"
** "Hirado"
** "Yahagi"

"Armoured cruisers"
* "Chiyoda" (1890) - BU 1927
* Asama class
** "Asama" (1898) - BU 1947
** "Tokiwa" (1898) - Air attack 1945, BU
* "Yakumo" (1899) - BU 1947
* "Adzuma" (1899) - BU 1946
* Izumo class
** "Izumo" (1899) - BU 1947
** "Iwate" (1900) - BU 1947
* Kasuga class (modified Italian Giuseppe Garibaldi class)
** "Kasuga" (1902) - BU 1948
** "Nisshin" (1903) - Target 1936

"Battlecruisers"
* Tsukuba class battlecruisers
** "Tsukuba"
** "Ikoma"
* Ibuki class battlecruisers
** "Ibuki"
** "Kurama"
* Kongō class (Later upgraded to battleships)
** "Kongō" (1912) - Torpedoed and blew up, 1944
** "Hiei" (1912) - Sunk 1942
** "Haruna" (1913) - Bombed 1945, BU 1946
** "Kirishima" (1913) Damaged and scuttled, 1942

"Light and heavy cruisers"
* Tenryū class
** "Tenryū" (1918) - Sunk 1942
** "Tatsuta" (1918) - Sunk 1944
* Kuma class
** "Kuma" (1919) - Sunk 1944
** "Tama" (1920) - Sunk 1944
** "Kitakami" (1920) - Scrapped postwar
** "Oi" (1920) - Sunk 1944
** "Kiso" (1920) - Sunk 1944
* Nagara class
** "Nagara" (1921) - Sunk 1944
** "Isuzu" (1921) - Sunk 1945
** "Yura" (1922) - Sunk 1942
** "Natori" (1922) - Sunk 1944
** "Kinu" (1922) - Sunk 1944
** "Abukuma" (1923) - Sunk 1944
* Sendai class
** "Naka" (1925) - Sunk 1944
** "Sendai" (1923) - Sunk 1943
** "Jintsu" (1923) - Sunk 1943
* "Yubari" (1923) - Sunk 1944
* Furutaka class
** "Furutaka" (1925) - Sunk 1942
** "Kako" (1925) - Sunk 1942
* Aoba class
** "Aoba" (1926) - Sunk 1945
** "Kinugasa" (1926) - Sunk 1942
* Myōkō class
** "Myōkō" (1927) - Scuttled 1946
** "Nachi" (1927) - Sunk 1944
** "Haguro" (1928) - Sunk 1945
** "Ashigara" (1928) - Sunk 1945
* Takao class
** "Takao" (1930) - Sunk 1945
** "Atago" (1930) - Sunk 1944
** "Maya" (1930) - Sunk 1945
** "Chōkai" (1931) - Sunk 1944
* Mogami class
** "Mogami" (1934) - Sunk 1944
** "Mikuma" (1934) - Sunk 1942
** "Suzuya" (1934) - Sunk 1944
** "Kumano" (1936) - Sunk 1944
* Tone class
** "Tone" (1937) - Sunk 1945
** "Chikuma" (1938) - Sunk 1944
* Agano class
** "Agano" (1941) - Sunk 1944
** "Noshiro" (1942) - Sunk 1944
** "Yahagi" (1942) - Sunk 1945
** "Sakawa" (1944) - Expended in US A-bomb tests 1946
* "Ōyodo" (1942) - Sunk 1945
* "Ibuki" (1943) - Conversion to aircraft carrier abandoned 1945, BU 1947----

Netherlands

"Small cruisers"
* Atjeh class
** "Atjeh" (1876)
** "Tromp" (1877)
** "Koningin Emma der Nederlanden" (1879)
** "De Ruyter" (1880)
** "Van Speyk" (1882)
** "Johan Willem Friso" (1886)
* "Sumatra" (1890) - BU 1907
* "Koningin Wilhelmina der Nederlanden" (1892) - BU 1910
* Holland class
** "Holland" (1896) - BU 1920
** "Zeeland "(1897) - BU 1924
** "Friesland" (1896) - BU 1913
** "Gelderland" (1898) - Captured by Germany 1940, renamed "Niobe"
** "Noordbrabant" (1899) - Stricken 1920, destroyed c. 1940
** "Utrecht" (1898) - BU 1913
* Java class
** "Sumatra" (1920) - Scuttled as a breakwater at Mulberry harbour during the D-day landings, 1944
** "Java" (1921) - Sunk at the Battle of the Java Sea, 1942
** HNLMS "Celebes" - Planned but never completed
* De Ruyter class
** HNLMS "De Ruyter" (1935) - Sunk at the Battle of the Java Sea, 1942
* Tromp class
** HNLMS "Tromp" (1937) - Decommissioned in 1955, sold for scrap in 1969
** "Jacob van Heemskerk" (1939) - completed as an anti-aircraft cruiser [Friedman, Norman "Anti-Aircraft Cruisers: The Life of a Class" "United States Naval Institute Proceedings" January 1965 p.96] - Decommissioned in 1969, sold for scrap in 1970
* Zeven Provinciën class
** HNLMS "De Ruyter" (1944) - completed as an anti-aircraft cruiser [Friedman, Norman "Anti-Aircraft Cruisers: The Life of a Class" "United States Naval Institute Proceedings" January 1965 p.97] - Sold to Peru in 1973 and renamed "Almirante Grau"
** "Zeven Provinciën" (1950) - completed as an anti-aircraft cruiser [Friedman, Norman "Anti-Aircraft Cruisers: The Life of a Class" "United States Naval Institute Proceedings" January 1965 p.97] - Sold to Peru in 1976 and renamed "Aguirre"----

New Zealand

* "Achilles" - Formerly British "Achilles"
* "Leander" - Formerly British "Leander"----

Norway

"Protected cruisers"
* "Viking" (1891)
* "Frithjof" (1896)----

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

* British D class
** "Dragon"
** "Conrad"----

Portugal

* "Adamastor" (1896) - Sold 1933
* Sao Gabriel class
** "Sao Gabriel" (1898) - Disposed of 1924
** "Sao Rafael" (1898) - Wrecked 1923
* "Dom Carlos I" (1898) - Renamed "Candido Reis" 1910, disposed of 1923
* "Rainha Dona Amelia" (1899) - Renamed "Republica" 1910, wrecked 1915----

Romania

"Protected cruiser"
* "Elisabeta" (1888)----

Russia/USSR

See List of cruisers of the Russian Navy

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Spain

"Protected cruisers"
* Isla de Luzon class
** "Isla de Luzon" (1886) - Captured at the Battle of Manila Bay, 1898
** "Isla de Cuba" (1886) - Captured at the Battle of Manila Bay, 1898
** "Marques de la Enseñada" (1890)
* Reina Regente class
** "Reina Regente" (1887) - Sank 1895
** "Alfonso XIII" (1891)
** "Lepanto" (1892)
* "Rio de la Plata" (1898)
* "Extremadura" (1900)
* "Reina Regente" (1906)

"First class cruisers"
* Aragon class
** "Aragon" (1879)
** "Navarra" (1881)
** "Castilla" (1881) - Sunk at the Battle of Manila Bay, 1898
* Alfonso XII class
** "Alfonso XII (1887)
** "Reina Cristina" (1887) - Sunk at the Battle of Manila Bay, 1898
** "Reina Mercedes" (1887)

"Small cruisers"
* Velasco class
** "Velasco" (1881) - Sunk at the Battle of Manila Bay 1898
** "Gravina" (1881) - Sank 1885
** "Infanta Isabel" (1885) - Stricken c. 1910
** "Isabel II" (1886) - Stricken c. 1905
** "Cristobal Colon" (1887) - Sank 1895
** "Don Juan de Austria" (1887) - Sunk at the Battle of Manila Bay, 1898, refloated
** "Don Antonio Uloa" (1887) - Sunk at the Battle of Manila Bay, 1898
** "Conde del Venadito" (1888) - Stricken c. 1905

"Armoured cruisers"
* Infanta Maria Teresa class
** "Infanta Maria Teresa" (1890) - Sunk at the Battle of Santiago de Cuba, 1898
** "Vizcaya" (1891) - Sunk at the Battle of Santiago de Cuba 1898
** "Almirante Oquendo" (1891) - Sunk at the Battle of Santiago de Cuba, 1898
* "Emperador Carlos V" (1895)
* Italian Giuseppe Garibaldi class
** "Cristobal Colon" (1897) - Sunk at the Battle of Santiago de Cuba, 1898
* Princesa de Asturias class
** "Princesa de Asturias" (1896)
** "Cardenal Jimenez de Cisneros" (1897) - Wrecked 1905
** "Cataluña" (1900)

"Light and scout cruisers"
* "Navarra" (ex-"Republica", ex-"Reina Victoria Eugenia") (1923)
* Blas de Lezo class
** "Blas de Lezo" (1925) - Wrecked 1932
** "Mendez Nuñez" (1924) - converted to an anti-aircraft cruiser [Friedman, Norman "Anti-Aircraft Cruisers: The Life of a Class" "United States Naval Institute Proceedings" January 1965 p.96]
* Almirante Cervera class
** "Almirante Cervera" (1928)
** "Galicia" (ex-"Libertad", ex-"Principe Alfonso") (1927)
** "Miguel de Cervantes" (1930)

"Heavy cruisers"
* Canarias class
** "Canarias" (1936)
** "Baleares" (1936) - Sunk at the Battle of Cape Palos, 1938----

Sweden

"Armoured cruiser"
* "Fylgia" (1905) - Sold for BU 1957

"Seaplane cruiser"
* "Gotland" (1933) - converted to an anti-aircraft cruiser [Friedman, Norman "Anti-Aircraft Cruisers: The Life of a Class" "United States Naval Institute Proceedings" January 1965 p.96] - BU 1963

"Light cruisers"
* Tre Kronor class converted to anti-aircraft cruisers [Friedman, Norman "Anti-Aircraft Cruisers: The Life of a Class" "United States Naval Institute Proceedings" January 1965 p.96]
** "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

"Protected cruisers"
* "Gamidieh (Abdul Hamid)" (1904) - captured by Russian 1915, restored 1918, BU 1947
* "Mejidieh (Abdul Mejid)" (1905) - BU 1947"Light cruisers"
* "Midilli (ex-German Breslau )" (1912) - purchased 1914, mined 1918----

United Kingdom

* List of cruisers of the Royal Navy
* List of battlecruisers of the Royal Navy----

United States

See List of cruisers of the United States Navy

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Uruguay

"Protected cruisers"
* "Montevideo (ex-Italian Dogali )" (1885) - purchased 1908, decommissioned 1932

References