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

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

|

Chile

armoured cruisers

China

Denmark

France

Early cruising ships
  • Armorique (1862)
  • Circ (1860)
  • Flore (1869)
  • Cosmao class
    • Cosmao (1861)
    • Dupleix (1861)
  • Talisman (1862)
  • Chteaurenault (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)
  • Iphignie (1881)
  • Naade (1881)
  • Arthuse (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
    • Cond (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
    • Lbeck (1904) - BU 1922
    • Mnchen (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)
    • SP 1
    • SP 2
    • SP 3
Armoured, battle- and heavy cruisers

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
    • Basilicata
    • Campania
  • Quarto
    • Nino Bixio
    • Marsala
  • 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
    • Luigi di Savoia Duca degli Abruzzi (1936) - BU 1960s
    • Giuseppe Garibaldi (1933) - 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
    • 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
    • Marco Polo
  • 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
    • Pisa
    • Amalfi - Sunk 1915
  • San Marco class
    • San Marco - Sunk c.1944
    • San Giorgio - Sunk 1941
Heavy cruisers

Japan

Small cruisers
  • Naniwa class
    • Naniwa
    • Takachiho
  • Unebi (1886)
  • Matsushima class
    • Matsushima
    • Hashidate
    • Itsukushima
  • Akitsushima (1892)
  • Yoshino (1892)
  • Idzumi (1883)
  • Suma class
    • Suma (1895)
    • Akashi (1897)
  • Takasago (1897)
  • Chitose class
    • Chitose
    • Kasagi
  • Tsushima class
    • Tsushima
    • Niitaka
  • 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

Netherlands

Protected and light cruisers

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
  • Elisabeta (1888)

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

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 Heavy cruisers

Sweden

Armoured cruiser
  • Fylgia (1905)
  • Gotland
  • ? class
    • Tre Kronor
    • ?

United States

See List of cruisers of the United States Navy.

 

<< PreviousWord BrowserNext >>
russian provisional government, 1917
national patriotic party
sierra leone people's party
national resistance movement
service location protocol
luis cabral
chiatura
kutaisi
faisal husseini
mary balogh
list of software
alamethicin
1832 in science
1 aminocyclopropane 1 carboxylic acid
list of national governments
commodore 1531
imperial death squadron
fatherland party (kazakhstan)
star trek: the experience
mongolian people's revolutionary party
aib
hallstatt culture
islamic iran participation front
list of political parties in iran
board of deputies of british jews
the necks
paul mac
proteinogenic
party of communists of kyrgyzstan
nationalist people's coalition
united national party
revolutionary nationalist movement
forward (greenland)
sarcosine
michael psellus
arija
lloyd axworthy
david waddington, baron waddington
marcelo tosatti
national geographic bee
united kingdom in the eurovision song contest 1988
nikon d70
united kingdom in the eurovision song contest 1989
multilateralism