Online Encyclopedia
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.
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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
- Dido class/Bellona class - 11 ships
- Crown Colony class - 11 ships
- Swiftsure class - 2 ships
- Tiger class - 4 ships
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
-
Zara class
- Zara
- Pola
- Fiume
- Gorizia
- Bolzano
-
Trento class
- Trento
- Trieste
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)
- CC-1 Lexington class - 6 ships (first and third hulls converted to aircraft carriers)
Pre-1920 armored cruisers (ACR series)
- ACR-1 USS Maine
- ACR-2 USS New York
- ACR-3 USS Brooklyn
- ACR-4 Pennsylvania class cruiser - 6 ships
- ACR-10 Tennessee class cruiser - 4 ships
Pre-1920 cruisers (C series)
- C-1 USS Newark
- C-2 USS Charleston
- C-3 USS Baltimore
- C-4 USS Philadelphia
- C-5 USS San Francisco
- C-6 USS Olympia
- C-7 Cincinnati class cruiser - Two ships
- C-9 Montgomery class cruiser - Three ships
- C-12 Columbia class cruiser - Two ships
- C-14 Denver class cruiser - Six ships
- C-20 St. Louis class cruiser - Three ships
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)
- CB-1 Alaska class - 2 ships (6 planned)
Guided Missile Cruisers (CG series)
- CAG-1 Boston class - 2 ships
- CG-3 Galveston class - 3 ships
- CG-6 Providence class - 3 ships
- CGN-9 Long Beach class
- CG-10 Albany class - 3 ships
- CG-16 Leahy class - 9 ships
- CGN-25 USS Bainbridge
- CG-26 Belknap class - 9 ships
- CGN-35 USS Truxtun
- CGN-36 California class - 2 ships
- CGN-38 Virginia class - 4 ships
- CG-47 Ticonderoga class - 27 ships