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This is a list of cruisers, from 1860 to the present. It includes
; Torpedo cruiser
* (1893) - Decommissioned 1927
; Protected cruisers
* (1886) - Decommissioned 1927
* ''Necochea'' (1890) - Renamed ''Veinticinco de Mayo'', decommissioned 1921
* (1892) - Discarded 1930
* (1895) - Retired 1932
; Armored cruisers
*
** (1895) - Retired 1934
** (1896) - Retired 1935
** (1897) - Retired 1947
** (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
*
** (1929) - Scrapped 1960
** (1929) - Scrapped 1962
; Light cruisers
* (1937) - Retired 1972
*
** (1936, ex-USS ''Boise'') - Assigned 1951, retired 1977
** (1938, ex-USS ''Phoenix'') - Assigned 1951, sunk 1982 in the Falklands War
; Auxiliary cruisers (former merchant ships)
* ''Niterói'' (1893) - Ex ''El Cid'', purchased 1893, sold to United States 1898 and renamed USS ''Buffalo''
; Torpedo cruisers
* '' Tymbira'' (1896) - ?
* ''
; Unprotected cruiser
* ''Arturo Prat'' (1880) - Purchase canceled and sold to Japan in 1883, renamed , retired 1910
; Protected cruisers
* (1883) - Sold to Japan 1894, renamed , discarded 1912
*
** ''Presidente Errázuriz'' (1890) - Discarded 1930
** ''Presidente Pinto'' (1890) - Shipwreck 1905
* ''Blanco Encalada'' (1893) - Retired 1940
* ''Ministro Zenteno'' (1896) - Retired 1930
* ''Chacabuco'' (1897) - Stricken 1959
; Armored cruisers
* ''Esmeralda'' (1895) - Retired 1930
* ''O'Higgins'' (1896) - Retired 1933
; Light cruisers
*
** ''OHiggins'' (1936, ex-USS ''Brooklyn'') - Acquired 1951, retired 1991
** ''Capitán Prat'' (1937, ex-USS ''Nashville'') - Acquired 1951, retired 1982
*
** ''Almirante Latorre'' (1945, ex-Swedish ''Göta Lejon'') - Commissioned 1971, retired 1984
;Auxiliary cruisers (former merchant ships)
* ''Sócrates'' class (ex-Portuguese)
** ''Sócrates'' (1880) - Renamed ''Lima'', assigned 1889, retired 1950
** ''Diógenes'' (1881) - Renamed ''Callao'', not delivered, purchased by the
; Unprotected Cruisers
* ''Chaoyong'' class
** (1880) - Sunk 1894
** (1881) - Sunk 1894
* ''Kai Che'' (1882) - Explosion 1902
* ''Nan Thin'' class
** (1883)
** ''Nan Shuin'' (1884)
* ''Pao Min'' (1885)
* ''King Ch'ing'' class
** ''King Ch'ing'' (1886)
** ''Huan T'ai'' (1886) - Collision 1902
* ''Tung Chi'' (1894) - Sunk 1937
* ''Fu An'' (1897)
; Protected Cruisers
* '' (1883) - Captured by Japan 1895, renamed ''Sai Yen'', mined 1904
* ''Chih Yuan'' class
** (1886) - Sunk 1894
** (1886) - Sunk 1895
* ''Hai Chi'' class cruiser, 4,300 ton, Armstrong
** ' (1897) - Sunk 1904
** ' (1898) - Sunk 1937 as blockship in
torpedo
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, unprotected
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, protected, scout, light
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, armoured
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, battle-, heavy
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Measures
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and missile cruisers. Dates are launching dates.
Africa
South Africa
; Protected cruiser * SATS ''General Botha'' (1885, ex-HMS ''Thames'') - Assigned 1922, scuttled 1947.Americas
Argentina
; Torpedo cruiser
* (1893) - Decommissioned 1927
; Protected cruisers
* (1886) - Decommissioned 1927
* ''Necochea'' (1890) - Renamed ''Veinticinco de Mayo'', decommissioned 1921
* (1892) - Discarded 1930
* (1895) - Retired 1932
; Armored cruisers
*
** (1895) - Retired 1934
** (1896) - Retired 1935
** (1897) - Retired 1947
** (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
*
** (1929) - Scrapped 1960
** (1929) - Scrapped 1962
; Light cruisers
* (1937) - Retired 1972
*
** (1936, ex-USS ''Boise'') - Assigned 1951, retired 1977
** (1938, ex-USS ''Phoenix'') - Assigned 1951, sunk 1982 in the Falklands War
Brazil
; Auxiliary cruisers (former merchant ships)
* ''Niterói'' (1893) - Ex ''El Cid'', purchased 1893, sold to United States 1898 and renamed USS ''Buffalo''
; Torpedo cruisers
* '' Tymbira'' (1896) - ?
* ''Tamoio
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'' (1896) - ?
* ''Tupi'' (1896) - Retired 1915
; Protected cruisers
* (1890) - Retired 1915
* ''Tiradentes'' (1892) - Decommissioned 1919
* ''Republica'' (1892) - Retired 1921
*
** Name unknown (1896) - Not acquired, purchased by Chile and renamed ''Ministro Zenteno'', decommissioned 1930
** - Retired 1931
** ''Amazonas'' (1896) - Not acquired, purchased by United States and renamed USS ''New Orleans'', decommissioned 1922
** ''Almirante Abreu'' (1899) - Not acquired, purchased by United States and renamed USS ''Albany'', decommissioned 1922
; Scout cruisers
*
** (1909) - Lost 1945
** (1910) - BU 1948
; Light cruisers
*
** '' Almirante Barroso'' (1936, ex-USS ''Philadelphia'') - Assigned 1951, retired 1973
*
** '' Almirante Tamandaré'' (1938, ex-USS ''St. Louis'') - Assigned 1951, retired 1976
Canada
;Protected cruiser * British ** (1891, ex-British ''Rainbow'', transferred 1910) – Sold 1920 * British ** (1897, ex-British ''Niobe'', transferred 1910) – BU 1922 ;Light cruisers * British ** (1913, ex-British ''Aurora'', transferred 1920) – Sold for scrap 1927 * British ** (1941, ex-British ''Uganda'', transferred 1944) – Renamed ''Quebec'' 1952, BU 1961 * British ** (1943, ex-British ''Minotaur'', transferred 1944) – BU 1960Chile
; Unprotected cruiser
* ''Arturo Prat'' (1880) - Purchase canceled and sold to Japan in 1883, renamed , retired 1910
; Protected cruisers
* (1883) - Sold to Japan 1894, renamed , discarded 1912
*
** ''Presidente Errázuriz'' (1890) - Discarded 1930
** ''Presidente Pinto'' (1890) - Shipwreck 1905
* ''Blanco Encalada'' (1893) - Retired 1940
* ''Ministro Zenteno'' (1896) - Retired 1930
* ''Chacabuco'' (1897) - Stricken 1959
; Armored cruisers
* ''Esmeralda'' (1895) - Retired 1930
* ''O'Higgins'' (1896) - Retired 1933
; Light cruisers
*
** ''OHiggins'' (1936, ex-USS ''Brooklyn'') - Acquired 1951, retired 1991
** ''Capitán Prat'' (1937, ex-USS ''Nashville'') - Acquired 1951, retired 1982
*
** ''Almirante Latorre'' (1945, ex-Swedish ''Göta Lejon'') - Commissioned 1971, retired 1984
Haiti
; Protected cruiser * ''Consul Gostrück'' (1894-ex Italian ''Umbria''), assigned 1910, lost 1911.Peru
;Auxiliary cruisers (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
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in 1898 and renamed USS ''Topeka''
;Scout cruisers
*
** ''Almirante Grau'' (1906) - retired 1958
** ''Coronel Bolognesi'' (1906) - retired 1958
;Armored cruiser
* ''Comandante Aguirre'' (ex-French ''Dupuy de Lôme'') (1890) - purchased 1912, purchase canceled 1914
;Light cruisers
*
** (1941, ex-British ) - assigned 1959, retired 1979. Called ''Almirante Grau'' 1960-1973
** (1942, ex-British ) - assigned 1960, retired 1982
*
** (1944, ex-Dutch ) - assigned 1973, retired 2017
** (1950, ex-Dutch ) - assigned 1978, retired 1999
United States
Uruguay
;Protected cruiser * ''Montevideo'' (1885, ex-Italian ''Dogali'') - purchased 1908, decommissioned 1932Venezuela
;Protected cruiser * ''Mariscal Sucre'' (ex-Spanish ''Isla de Cuba'') (1886) - purchased 1912, decommissioned 1940Asia
China
; Unprotected Cruisers
* ''Chaoyong'' class
** (1880) - Sunk 1894
** (1881) - Sunk 1894
* ''Kai Che'' (1882) - Explosion 1902
* ''Nan Thin'' class
** (1883)
** ''Nan Shuin'' (1884)
* ''Pao Min'' (1885)
* ''King Ch'ing'' class
** ''King Ch'ing'' (1886)
** ''Huan T'ai'' (1886) - Collision 1902
* ''Tung Chi'' (1894) - Sunk 1937
* ''Fu An'' (1897)
; Protected Cruisers
* '' (1883) - Captured by Japan 1895, renamed ''Sai Yen'', mined 1904
* ''Chih Yuan'' class
** (1886) - Sunk 1894
** (1886) - Sunk 1895
* ''Hai Chi'' class cruiser, 4,300 ton, Armstrong
** ' (1897) - Sunk 1904
** ' (1898) - Sunk 1937 as blockship in Yangtze river
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* ''Hai Yung'' class
** (1897) - Sunk 1937 as blockship in Yangtze river
** ''Hai Chou'' (1897) - Sunk 1937 as blockship in Yangtze river
** (1898) "Pearl of the Sea" - Sunk 1937 as blockship in Yangtze river
*
** ' (1912) - Sunk 1937.
** ' (1913) - Sunk 1937.
; Armoured Cruisers
* ''King Yuan'' class
** (1887) - Sunk 1894
** (1887) - Sunk 1895
* '' Lung Wei'' (1888) - Renamed ''Ping Yuen''
; Light cruisers
*
** (1931) - Sunk 1937. Re-floated by Japan and renamed ''Ioshima'', Sunk by .
** (1931) - Sunk 1937. Re-floated by Japan and renamed ''Yasoshima''. Sunk by US aircraft attack.
* British ''Arethusa'' class
** ''Chung King'' (1948) - ex- of the Royal Navy
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, sold on 19 May 1948 to the Nationalist Chinese Navy. Defected to Chinese Communists
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and then sunk by Nationalist aircraft in 1949, continued in service as an accommodations and warehouse hulk until mid-1950s.
India
* British ** (1932, ex-British , purchased 1948) – Scrapped 1978 * British ** (1939, ex-British , purchased 1957) – Scrapped 1985Indonesia
* (purchased 1962), former Soviet ''Ordzhonikidze'' – Scrapped 1972Japan
Pakistan
* (purchased 1956), the former British , renamed ''Jahangir'', c. 1961Thailand/Siam
* ''Taksin'' class (1939, requisitioned by Italy 1941) ** ''Taksin'' (unfinished) ** ''Naresuan'' (unfinished)Turkey/Ottoman Empire
;Battlecruisers * ''Yavuz Sultan Selim'' (ex-German ''Goeben'') (1912) -purchased 1914, BU 1974 ;Unprotected cruisers * (1892) - BU 1911 * (1892) - BU 1911 * ** (unfinished) ** (unfinished) * ** (unfinished) ** (unfinished) ;Protected cruisers * (Abdul Hamid)'' (1903) - BU 1947 * (1903) - captured by Russian 1915, restored 1918, BU 1948 ;Light cruisers * ''Midilli'' (ex-German ''Breslau'' ) (1912) - purchased 1914, mined 1918 ;Torpedo cruisers * ** (1906) ** (1906)Europe
Austria-Hungary
Belgium
; Protected cruiser * ''D'Entrecasteaux''Croatia
; Light cruiser * ''Zniam'' (ex-KB ''Dalmacija'', ex-SMS ''Niobe'')Denmark
; Unprotected cruiser * ''Fyen'' (1882) ; Protected cruisers * ''Valkyrien'' (1888) * ''Hekla'' (1890) * ''Gejser'' class ** ''Gejser'' (1892) ** ''Heimdal'' (1894)France
Germany
* List of battlecruisers of Germany *List of cruisers of Germany
Starting in the 1880s, the German ''Kaiserliche Marine'' (Imperial Navy) began building a series of cruisers. The first designs—protected and unprotected—were ordered to replace aging sail and steam-powered frigates and corvettes that were ...
Greece
* ''Amalia'' (1861) - Renamed ''Hellas'' 1862, BU 1906 * (1879) - Sold 1931 * ''Antinavarchos Kountouriotis'' (1914) - Purchased by Royal Navy while under construction * ''Lambros Katsonis'' (1914) - Purchased by Royal Navy while under construction * (1912, purchased 1914) - Torpedoed by Italian submarine 1940 * (1910) - Italian ''Pisa'' class, preserved at Faliro as museum * II (1935, ex-Italian ''Eugenio di Savoia'', obtained in 1951 as war reparations) - Stricken 1964Italy
Netherlands
Norway
;Protected cruisers * ''Viking'' (1891) * ''Frithjof'' (1896)Poland
;Light cruisers * ''Danae''-class ** ** ;Protected cruisers * ORP ''Bałtyk''Portugal
* (1896) - Sold 1933 * ''São Gabriel'' class ** (1898) - Disposed of 1924 ** (1898) - Wrecked 1923 * ''Dom Carlos I'' (1898) - Renamed ''Candido Reis'' 1910, disposed of 1923 * ''Rainha Dona Amélia'' (1899) - Renamed ''República'' 1910, wrecked 1915Romania
Russia/USSR
Spain
Sweden
;Armoured cruiser * (1905) - Sold for BU 1957 ;Seaplane cruiser * (1933) - converted to an anti-aircraft cruiserFriedman, Norman "Anti-Aircraft Cruisers: The Life of a Class" ''United States Naval Institute Proceedings'' January 1965 p.96 - BU 1963 ;Light cruisers * converted to anti-aircraft cruisers ** (1944) ** (1945) ;Mine cruiser * (1943) * ;Torpedo cruisers * * * * *Ukraine
;Light cruisers * ''Krasnyi Krym'' * ''Pamiat' Merkuria'' ;Guided-missile cruisers * '' Ukraina''United Kingdom
* List of battlecruisers of the Royal Navy *List of cruisers of the Royal Navy
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Yugoslavia
* (the former German )Oceania
Australia
;Protected cruiser * (1902) - Scuttled 1932 ;Battlecruiser * (1911) - Scuttled 1924 ;Light cruisers * British ''Chatham'' class ** (1912) - BU 1929 ** (1912) - BU 1929 ** (1915) - Sold for BU 1936 ** (1918) - BU 1949 * British ''Leander'' (''Apollo'') class ** (1934) - Sunk 1942 ** (1934) - Sunk 1941 ** (1934) - BU 1962 ;Heavy cruisers * British ** (1927) - BU 1955 ** (1927) - Sunk 1942 ** (1927) - BU 1955New 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''See also
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