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List of cruisers

This is a so far incomplete list of cruisers 1879-present. It includes protected, light, armoured, battle-, heavy and missile cruisers. As this list gets longer, it will be split into countries, and types, each of which will be linked to separately on the "Cruisers" page.

Contents

Argentina

  • La Argentina
  • Veinticinco de Mayo class
    • Veinticinco de Mayo
    • ?

Australia

Early cruisers

  • Protector

Light and protected cruisers

  • Encounter
  • Brisbane
  • Melbourne
  • Sydney
  • Adelaide
  • Hobart
  • Perth
  • Sydney

Battle- and heavy cruisers

  • Australia
  • Australia
  • Canberra
  • Shropshire

Britain

Light, protected and missile cruisers

Armoured, battle- and heavy cruisers

  • Invincible class
    • Invincible
    • Indomitable
    • Inflexible
  • Indefatigable class
    • Indefatigable
    • Australia (presented to Australia 1910)
    • New Zealand
  • Lion class
    • Lion
    • Princess Royal
    • Queen Mary
  • Tiger class
    • Tiger
    • Leopard (not built)
  • Renown class
  • Courageous class large light cruisers, later converted to aircraft carriers
    • Courageous
    • Glorious
  • Furious large light cruiser, later converted to an aircraft carrier
  • Hood class
    • Hood
    • Anson (not built)
    • Howe (not built)
    • Rodney (not built)
  • Town class (including Southampton, Gloucester and Edinburgh classes) - 10 ships

Chile

  • Chacabuco - 1 ship

Denmark

France

Protected, light and missile cruisers

  • Sfax
  • Tage
  • Surcouf
  • Cassini
  • Chateaurenault
  • La Tour d'Auvergne renamed Pluton
  • Emile Bertin
  • Lamotte-Piquet class
    • Lamotte-Piquet
    • Primauget
    • ?
  • La Galissonniere class
    • La Galissonniere
    • Jean de Vienne
    • Gloire
    • Georges Leygues
    • ?
    • ?
  • Jeanne d'Arc
  • Colbert preserved at Toulouse

Armored and heavy cruisers

  • Dupuy de Lome
  • Jurien de la Graviere
  • Waldeck-Rousseau
  • Tourville class
    • Tourville
    • Duquesne
  • Suffren class
    • Suffren
    • Colbert
    • Montcalm
  • Algerie

Germany

Protected and light cruisers

  • Zieten
  • Meteor class
    • Meteor
    • Comet
  • Bussard class
    • Bussard
    • Falke
    • Seeadler
    • Condor
    • Cormoran
    • Geier
  • Kaiserin Augusta
  • Hela
  • Gefion
  • Gazelle class
    • Gazelle
    • Niobe
    • Nymphe
    • Thetis
    • Ariadne
    • Amazone
    • Medusa
    • Frauenlob
    • Arcona
    • Undine
  • Bremen class
    • Bremen
    • Hamburg
    • Berlin
    • Lubeck
    • Munchen
    • Leipzig
    • Danzig
  • Emden
  • Emden
  • Karlsruhe
  • Bremse
  • Brummer
  • Coln
  • Wiesbaden
  • Mainz
  • Strassburg
  • Koln
  • Kolberg
  • Stuttgart
  • Stettin
  • Frankfurt
  • Magdeburg
  • Konigsburg
  • Emden
  • 'K' class
    • Koln
    • Konigsburg
    • Karlsruhe
  • Leipzig
  • Nurnberg
  • 'SP' class
    • SP 1
    • SP 2
    • SP 3

Armored, battle- and heavy cruisers

  • Victoria Luise class
    • Victoria Luise
    • Hertha
    • Freya
    • Vineta
    • Hansa
  • Furst Bismarck
  • Prinz Heinrich
  • Prinz Adalbert class
    • Prinz Adalbert
    • Friedrich Carl
  • Roon class
    • Roon
    • Yorck
  • Scharnhorst class
    • Scharnhorst
    • Gneisenau
  • Blucher
  • Von der Tann
  • Seydlitz
  • Moltke class
    • Moltke
    • Goeben
  • Derfflinger class
    • Derfflinger
    • Hindenburg
  • Mackensen class
    • Mackensen
    • Graf Spee
    •  ?
    •  ?
  • Admiral Hipper class
    • Admiral Hipper
    • Prinz Eugen
    • Blucher
    • Lutzow
    • Seydlitz

Italy

Light and protected cruisers

  • Capitani Romani class - 10 ships (6 not completed)
  • Montecuccoli class - 2 ships
  • Duca degli Abruzzi class - 2 ships
  • Duca d'Aosta class - 2 ships
  • Cadorna class
    • Luigi Cadorna
    • ?
  • Di Giussano class - 4 ships

Armoured and heavy cruisers

Netherlands

New Zealand

  • Achilles - formerly British Achilles

Poland

Portugal

  • Sao Gabriel
  • Adamastor

Russia/USSR

  • Svetlana
  • Aurora
  • Chervonaya Ukraina
  • Murmansk (ex-Milwaukee)
  • Zemtchug
  • Maxim Gorky class - 6 ships
    • Kirov
    • Maksim Gorkyy
  • Chapaev class - 10 ships
    • Chapaev
  • Sverdlov class - 14 ships
  • 'Kynda' class - 4 ships
  • 'Kresta I' class - 4 ships
  • 'Kresta II' class - 10 ships
  • 'Kara' class - 7 ships
  • Slava class - 3 ships
    • Slava
  • Kirov class - 4 ships

Spain

Small cruisers

  • Reina Christina

Large cruisers

  • Baleares
  • Canarias
  • Vizcaya
  • Almirante Oquendo
  • Cristobal Colon

Sweden

  • Gotland

United States

Battlecruisers (CC series)

Pre-1920 armored cruisers (ACR series)

Pre-1920 cruisers (C series)

Post-1920 light cruisers (CL/CA series)

  • CL-1 Chester class cruiser - 3 ships
  • CL-4 Omaha class cruiser - 10 ships
  • CL-15 USS Olympia
  • CL-16 Denver class cruiser - 6 ships
  • CL-22 New Orleans class 3rd class cruiser - 2 ships
  • CL-40 Brooklyn class cruiser - 7 ships
  • CL-49 St. Louis class cruiser - 2 ships
  • CL-51 Atlanta class cruiser - 4 ships
  • CL-55 Cleveland class cruiser - 23 ships (seven sisters were converted to Independence class aircraft carriers)
  • CL-95 Oakland class cruiser - 4 ships
  • CL-106 Fargo class cruiser - 2 ships (11 were canceled because of the end of World War II)
  • CL-119 Juneau class cruiser - 3 ships
  • CL-154 Worcester class cruiser - class canceled before any units laid down.
  • CLGN-160 USS Long Beach - to CGN-160 6 Dec 1956, to CGN-9 1 July 1957

Post-1920 Heavy cruisers (CL/CA series)

  • CA-24 Pensacola class cruiser - 2 ships
  • CA-26 Northampton class cruiser - 6 ships
  • CA-32 New Orleans class cruiser - 7 ships
  • CA-33 Portland class cruiser - 2 ships
  • CA-45 USS Wichita
  • CA-68 Baltimore class cruiser - 17 ships; the largest class of heavy cruiser in history. Units of this class were converted into Boston and Albany class guided missile cruisers post-WW2.
  • CA-122 Oregon City class cruiser - 3 ships, sister USS Northampton (CA-125) converted to National Emergency Command Post Afloat while under construction.
  • CA-139 Salem class cruiser - 3 ships; USS Des Moines (CA-134) was laid down as a Baltimore-class ship but converted to a Salem class ship while under construction and nine ships of the class were either scrapped on the ways or never laid down.

Large cruisers (CB series)

Guided Missile Cruisers (CG series)


Last updated: 10-24-2004 05:10:45