Engineering: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
  • SATS General Botha (1885, ex-HMS Thames) - Assigned 1922, scuttled 1947.

Americas

Argentina

Armored cruiser Garibaldi.
Torpedo cruiser
  • missing name (1893) - Decommissioned 1927
Protected cruisers
  • missing name (1886) - Decommissioned 1927
  • Necochea (1890) - Renamed Veinticinco de Mayo, decommissioned 1921
  • missing name (1892) - Discarded 1930
  • missing name (1895) - Retired 1932
Armored cruisers
  • Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist.
    • missing name (1895) - Retired 1934
    • missing name (1896) - Retired 1935
    • missing name (1897) - Retired 1947
    • missing name (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
  • Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist.
    • missing name (1929) - Scrapped 1960
    • missing name (1929) - Scrapped 1962
Light cruisers
  • missing name (1937) - Retired 1972
  • Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist.
    • missing name (1936, ex-USS Boise) - Assigned 1951, retired 1977
    • missing name (1938, ex-USS Phoenix) - Assigned 1951, sunk 1982 in the Falklands War

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
  • missing name (1890) - Retired 1915
  • Tiradentes (1892) - Decommissioned 1919
  • Republica (1892) - Retired 1921
  • Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist.
    • Name unknown (1896) - Not acquired, purchased by Chile and renamed Ministro Zenteno, decommissioned 1930
    • missing name - 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
  • Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist.
    • missing name (1909) - Lost 1945
    • missing name (1910) - BU 1948
Light cruisers
  • Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist.
    • Almirante Barroso (1936, ex-USS Philadelphia) - Assigned 1951, retired 1973
  • Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist.
    • Almirante Tamandaré (1938, ex-USS St. Louis) - Assigned 1951, retired 1976

Canada

Protected cruiser
  • British Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist.
    • missing name (1891, ex-British Rainbow, transferred 1910) – Sold 1920
  • British Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist.
    • missing name (1897, ex-British Niobe, transferred 1910) – BU 1922
Light cruisers
  • British Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist.
    • missing name (1913, ex-British Aurora, transferred 1920) – Sold for scrap 1927
  • British Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist.
    • Script error: The function "ship_prefix_templates" does not exist. (1941, ex-British Uganda, transferred 1944) – Renamed Quebec 1952, BU 1961
  • British Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist.
    • missing name (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 missing name, retired 1910
Protected cruisers
  • missing name (1883) - Sold to Japan 1894, renamed missing name, discarded 1912
  • Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist.
    • 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
  • Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist.
    • O'Higgins (1936, ex-USS Brooklyn) - Acquired 1951, retired 1991
    • Capitán Prat (1937, ex-USS Nashville) - Acquired 1951, retired 1982
  • Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist.
    • 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

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
  • Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist.
    • 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
  • Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist.
    • missing name (1941, ex-British Script error: The function "ship_prefix_templates" does not exist.) - assigned 1959, retired 1979. Called Almirante Grau 1960-1973
    • missing name (1942, ex-British Script error: The function "ship_prefix_templates" does not exist.) - assigned 1960, retired 1982
  • Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist.
    • missing name (1944, ex-Dutch Script error: The function "ship_prefix_templates" does not exist.) - assigned 1973, retired 2017
    • missing name (1950, ex-Dutch Script error: The function "ship_prefix_templates" does not exist.) - assigned 1978, retired 1999

United States

Uruguay

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

Venezuela

Protected cruiser
  • Mariscal Sucre (ex-Spanish Isla de Cuba) (1886) - purchased 1912, decommissioned 1940

Asia

China

missing name docked at Weihaiwei
Unprotected Cruisers
  • Chaoyong class
    • missing name (1880) - Sunk 1894
    • missing name (1881) - Sunk 1894
  • Kai Che (1882) - Explosion 1902
  • Nan Thin class
    • missing name (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)
missing name on 11 September 1911 in New York City
Hai Chi on 11 September 1911 in New York City
Protected Cruisers
  • missing name (1883) - Captured by Japan 1895, renamed Sai Yen, mined 1904
  • Chih Yuan class
    • missing name (1886) - Sunk 1894
    • missing name (1886) - Sunk 1895
  • Hai Chi class cruiser, 4,300 ton, Armstrong
    • missing name (1897) - Sunk 1904
    • missing name (1898) - Sunk 1937 as blockship in Yangtze river[1]
  • Hai Yung class
    • missing name (1897) - Sunk 1937 as blockship in Yangtze river
    • Hai Chou (1897) - Sunk 1937 as blockship in Yangtze river
    • missing name (1898) "Pearl of the Sea" - Sunk 1937 as blockship in Yangtze river [1]
  • Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist.
    • missing name (1912) - Sunk 1937.
    • missing name (1913) - Sunk 1937.
Armoured Cruisers
  • King Yuan class
    • missing name (1887) - Sunk 1894
    • missing name (1887) - Sunk 1895
  • Lung Wei (1888) - Renamed Ping Yuen
Light cruisers
  • Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist.
    • missing name (1931) - Sunk 1937. Re-floated by Japan and renamed Ioshima. Sunk by missing name.
    • missing name (1931) - Sunk 1937. Re-floated by Japan and renamed Yasoshima. Sunk by US aircraft attack.
  • missing name (1934) - Sunk 1937. Re-floated by Japan and renamed Atada. Returned to the Republic of China 1946, decommissioned 1958
  • British Arethusa class
    • Chung King (1948) - ex-Script error: The function "ship_prefix_templates" does not exist. of the Royal Navy, sold on 19 May 1948 to the Nationalist Chinese Navy. Defected to Chinese Communists and then sunk by Nationalist aircraft in 1949, continued in service as an accommodations and warehouse hulk until mid-1950s.

India

  • British Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist.
    • missing name (1932, ex-British missing name, purchased 1948) – Scrapped 1978
  • British Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist.
    • missing name (1939, ex-British Script error: The function "ship_prefix_templates" does not exist., purchased 1957) – Scrapped 1985

Indonesia

  • KRI missing name (purchased 1962), former Soviet Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist. Ordzhonikidze – Scrapped 1972

Japan

Pakistan

  • missing name (purchased 1956), the former British Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist. Script error: The function "ship_prefix_templates" does not exist., renamed Jahangir, c. 1961

Thailand/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
  • missing name (1892) - BU 1911
  • missing name (1892) - BU 1911
  • Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist.
    • missing name (unfinished)
    • missing name (unfinished)
  • Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist.
    • missing name (unfinished)
    • missing name (unfinished)
Protected cruisers
  • missing name (Abdul Hamid) (1903) - BU 1947
  • missing name (1903) - captured by Russian 1915, restored 1918, BU 1948
Light cruisers
  • Midilli (ex-German Breslau ) (1912) - purchased 1914, mined 1918
Torpedo cruisers
  • Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist.
    • missing name (1906)
    • missing name (1906)

Europe

Austria-Hungary

Main article: Engineering:List of cruisers of 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

Main article: Engineering:List of cruisers of France

Germany

Greece

missing name
  • Amalia (1861) - Renamed Hellas 1862, BU 1906
  • missing name (1879) - Sold 1931
  • Antinavarchos Kountouriotis (1914) - Purchased by Royal Navy while under construction
  • Lambros Katsonis (1914) - Purchased by Royal Navy while under construction
  • missing name (1912, purchased 1914) - Torpedoed by Italian submarine 1940
  • missing name (1910) - Italian Pisa class, preserved at Faliro as museum
  • missing name II (1935, ex-Italian Eugenio di Savoia, obtained in 1951 as war reparations) - Stricken 1964

Italy

Netherlands

Main article: Engineering:List of cruisers of the Netherlands

Norway

Protected cruisers
  • Viking (1891)
  • Frithjof (1896)

Poland

Light cruisers
Protected cruisers
  • ORP Bałtyk

Portugal

  • missing name (1896) - Sold 1933
  • São Gabriel class
    • missing name (1898) - Disposed of 1924
    • missing name (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: Engineering:List of cruisers of Romania

Russia/USSR

Spain

Sweden

Armoured cruiser
  • Script error: The function "ship_prefix_templates" does not exist. (1905) - Sold for BU 1957
Seaplane cruiser
  • Script error: The function "ship_prefix_templates" does not exist. (1933) - converted to an anti-aircraft cruiser[2] - BU 1963
Light cruisers
  • Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist. converted to anti-aircraft cruisers[2]
    • Script error: The function "ship_prefix_templates" does not exist. (1944)
    • Script error: The function "ship_prefix_templates" does not exist. (1945)
Mine cruiser
  • Script error: The function "ship_prefix_templates" does not exist. (1943)
  • Script error: The function "ship_prefix_templates" does not exist.
Torpedo cruisers
  • Script error: The function "ship_prefix_templates" does not exist.
  • Script error: The function "ship_prefix_templates" does not exist.
  • Script error: The function "ship_prefix_templates" does not exist.
  • Script error: The function "ship_prefix_templates" does not exist.
  • Script error: The function "ship_prefix_templates" does not exist.

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

Yugoslavia

  • missing name (the former German Script error: The function "ship_prefix_templates" does not exist.)

Oceania

Australia

Protected cruiser
  • Script error: The function "ship_prefix_templates" does not exist. (1902) - Scuttled 1932
Battlecruiser
  • missing name (1911) - Scuttled 1924
Light cruisers
  • British Chatham class
    • missing name (1912) - BU 1929
    • missing name (1912) - BU 1929
    • missing name (1915) - Sold for BU 1936
    • missing name (1918) - BU 1949
  • British Leander (Apollo) class
    • missing name (1934) - Sunk 1942
    • missing name (1934) - Sunk 1941
    • missing name (1934) - BU 1962
Heavy cruisers
  • British Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist.
    • missing name (1927) - BU 1955
    • missing name (1927) - Sunk 1942
    • Script error: The function "ship_prefix_templates" does not exist. (1927) - BU 1955

New 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

  • List of ironclads
  • List of battleships
  • List of ships of the Second World War
  • List of cruisers of the Second World War

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Flag, Pearl & Peace". Time magazine. July 17, 1933. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,753799,00.html. Retrieved 2010-12-18. "The cruiser Hai Chi ("Flag of the Sea") earned in 1911 the distinction of being the first Chinese war boat ever to visit the West when she steamed as near as possible to the Coronation of King George V, discharged a cargo of Chinese emissaries in gorgeous silken robes. Built in 1897 the Hai Chi and the equally venerable Hai Shen ("Pearl of the Sea") were still listed last week as the only cruisers in China's Northeastern Squadron." 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Friedman, Norman "Anti-Aircraft Cruisers: The Life of a Class" United States Naval Institute Proceedings January 1965 p.96



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