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
  • Patria (1893) - Decommissioned 1927
Protected cruisers
  • Patagonia (1886) - Decommissioned 1927
  • Necochea (1890) - Renamed Veinticinco de Mayo, decommissioned 1921
  • Nueve de Julio (1892) - Discarded 1930
  • Buenos Aires (1895) - Retired 1932
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
  • Brooklyn class
    • Almirante Barroso (1936, ex-USS Philadelphia) - Assigned 1951, retired 1973
  • St. Louis class
    • Almirante Tamandaré (1938, ex-USS St. Louis) - Assigned 1951, retired 1976

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
  • Esmeralda (1883) - Sold to Japan 1894, renamed Izumi, discarded 1912
  • Presidente Errázuriz class
    • 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
  • Brooklyn class
    • O'Higgins (1936, ex-USS Brooklyn) - Acquired 1951, retired 1991
    • Capitán Prat (1937, ex-USS Nashville) - Acquired 1951, retired 1982
  • Tre Kronor class
    • 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
Armored cruiser
  • Comandante Aguirre (ex-French Dupuy de Lôme) (1890) - purchased 1912, purchase canceled 1914
Light cruisers

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

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
    • Chung King (1948) - ex-HMS Aurora 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

Indonesia

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

Japan

Pakistan

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
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 page: 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 page: Engineering: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

Netherlands

Main page: Engineering:List of cruisers of the Netherlands

Norway

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

Poland

Light cruisers
Protected cruisers
  • ORP Bałtyk

Portugal

  • Adamastor (1896) - Sold 1933
  • São Gabriel class
  • Dom Carlos I (1898) - Renamed Candido Reis 1910, disposed of 1923
  • Rainha Dona Amélia (1899) - Renamed República 1910, wrecked 1915

Romania

Main page: Engineering:List of cruisers of Romania

Russia/USSR

Spain

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
  • 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

Oceania

Australia

Protected cruiser
Battlecruiser
Light cruisers
Heavy cruisers

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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