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List of cruisers

List of cruisers

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This is a list of cruisers, from 1860 to the present. It includes torpedo, unprotected, protected, scout, light, armoured, battle-, heavy and missile cruisers. Dates are launching dates.

Africa

South Africa

Protected cruiser

Americas

Argentina

Armored cruiser Garibaldi.
Torpedo cruiser
  • Patria (1893) - Decommissioned 1927
Protected cruisers
Armored cruisers
Heavy cruisers
Light cruisers

Brazil

Light cruiser Rio Grande do Sul.
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 (1896) - ?
  • Tupi (1896) - Retired 1915
Protected cruisers
  • Almirante Tamandaré (1890) - Retired 1915
  • Tiradentes (1892) - Decommissioned 1919
  • Republica (1892) - Retired 1921
  • Almirante Barroso class
    • Name unknown (1896) - Not acquired, purchased by Chile and renamed Ministro Zenteno, decommissioned 1930
    • Almirante Barroso - 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
Light cruisers

Canada

Protected cruiser
Light cruisers
  • British Arethusa class
    • Aurora (1913, ex-British Aurora, transferred 1920) – Sold for scrap 1927
  • British Fiji class
    • Uganda (1941, ex-British Uganda, transferred 1944) – Renamed Quebec 1952, BU 1961
  • British Minotaur class
    • Ontario (1943, ex-British Minotaur, transferred 1944) – BU 1960

Chile

Armored cruiser O'Higgins.
Unprotected cruiser
  • Arturo Prat (1880) - Purchase canceled and sold to Japan in 1883, renamed Tsukushi, retired 1910
Protected cruisers
Armored cruisers
Light cruisers

Haiti

Protected cruiser

Peru

Light cruiser Almirante Grau (1973).
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 in 1898 and renamed USS Topeka
Scout cruisers
Armored cruiser
  • Comandante Aguirre (ex-French Dupuy de Lôme) (1890) - purchased 1912, purchase canceled 1914
Light cruisers

United States

Main article: List of cruisers of the United States Navy

Uruguay

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

Venezuela

Protected cruiser

Asia

China

Chaoyong docked at Weihaiwei
Unprotected Cruisers
  • Chaoyong class
  • Kai Che (1882) - Explosion 1902
  • Nan Thin class
  • 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)
Hai Chi on 11 September 1911 in New York City
Hai Chi on 11 September 1911 in New York City
Protected Cruisers
Armoured Cruisers
Light cruisers
  • 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.
  • Yat Sen (1934) - Sunk 1937. Re-floated by Japan and renamed Atada. Returned to the Republic of China 1946, decommissioned 1958
  • British Arethusa class
Guided missile cruisers

India

Indonesia

  • KRI Irian (purchased 1962), former Soviet Sverdlov-class cruiser Ordzhonikidze – Scrapped 1972

Japan

Main article: List of cruisers of Japan

Pakistan

Thailand/Siam

  • Taksin class (1939, requisitioned by Italy 1941)
    • Taksin (unfinished)
    • Naresuan (unfinished)

Turkey/Ottoman Empire

Battlecruisers
Unprotected cruisers
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

Europe

Austria-Hungary

Main article: List of cruisers of Austria-Hungary

Belgium

Protected cruiser

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

Main article: List of cruisers of France

Germany

Greece

Navarchos Miaoulis
  • Amalia (1861) - Renamed Hellas 1862, BU 1906
  • Navarchos Miaoulis (1879) - Sold 1931
  • Antinavarchos Kountouriotis (1914) - Purchased by Royal Navy while under construction
  • Lambros Katsonis (1914) - Purchased by Royal Navy while under construction
  • 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

Italy

Main article: List of Italian cruisers

Netherlands

Main article: List of cruisers of the Netherlands

Norway

Protected cruisers

Poland

Light cruisers
Protected cruisers

Portugal

  • Adamastor (1896) - Sold 1933
  • São Gabriel class
    • NRP São Gabriel (1898) - Disposed of 1924
    • NRP 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

Romania

Main article: List of cruisers of Romania

Russia/USSR

Main article: List of cruisers of the Russian Navy

Spain

Main article: List of Spanish cruisers

Sweden

Armoured cruiser
  • Fylgia (1905) - Sold for BU 1957
Seaplane cruiser
  • Gotland (1933) - converted to an anti-aircraft cruiser[2] - BU 1963
Light cruisers
Mine cruiser
Torpedo cruisers

Ukraine

Light cruisers
Guided-missile cruisers

United Kingdom

Yugoslavia

Oceania

Australia

Protected cruiser
Battlecruiser
Light cruisers
Heavy cruisers

New Zealand

See also

References

  1. [1]
    "Flag, Pearl & Peace". Time magazine. July 17, 1933. Archived from the original on November 22, 2010. Retrieved 2010-12-18.
  2. [2]
    Friedman, Norman "Anti-Aircraft Cruisers: The Life of a Class" United States Naval Institute Proceedings January 1965 p.96
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