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.
South Africa
Protected cruiser
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
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
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
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
Uruguay
Protected cruiser
Montevideo (1885, ex-Italian Dogali ) - purchased 1908, decommissioned 1932
Venezuela
Protected cruiser
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
Jiyuan (1883) - Captured by Japan 1895, renamed Sai Yen , mined 1904
Chih Yuan class
Hai Chi class cruiser , 4,300 ton, Armstrong
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 [1]
Chao Ho class
Armoured Cruisers
King Yuan class
Lung Wei (1888) - Renamed Ping Yuen
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
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
Belgium
Protected cruiser
Croatia
Light cruiser
Zniam (ex-KB Dalmacija , ex-SMS Niobe )
Denmark
Unprotected cruiser
Protected cruisers
Valkyrien (1888)
Hekla (1890)
Gejser class
Gejser (1892)
Heimdal (1894)
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
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
Australia
Protected cruiser
Battlecruiser
Light cruisers
Heavy cruisers
Friedman, Norman "Anti-Aircraft Cruisers: The Life of a Class" United States Naval Institute Proceedings January 1965 p.96