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.
Argentina
Australia
Small cruisers
- Protector
- Encounter
- British Chatham class
- Sydney (1912)
- Melbourne (1912)
- Brisbane (1915)
- British Birmingham class
- Adelaide (1918)
- Perth (1933) - Sunk 1941
- Sydney (1934) - Sunk 1941
- Hobart (1934) - BU 1962
Large cruisers
- Australia
- Australia
- Canberra - Sunk 1942
- Shropshire
Britain
Chile
China
Denmark
France
Early cruising ships
- Armorique
- Villars class
- Villars
- Forfait
- Magon
- Roland
- Duguay-Trouin
- Duquesne class
- Duquesne - Stricken 1901
- Tourvilla - Stricken 1901
- Iphigenie
- Naiad
- Arethuse
- Dubourdieu
- Milan
- Belliqueuse
Protected cruisers
- Sfax - Stricken 1906
- Tage - Stricken 1910
- Amiral Cecille - BU 1919
- Davout - Stricken 1910
- Suchet - Stricken 1906
- Forbin class
- Forbin - BU 1921
- Coetlogon - Stricken 1906
- Surcouf - Stricken 1921
- Troude class
- Troude - Stricken 1908
- Cosmao
- Lalande
- Linois class
- Linois
- Galilee
- Lavoisier - Stricken 1920
- Alger class
- Alger - Hulked 1911
- Jean Bart - Wrecked 1907
- Isly - Stricken 1914
- Friant class
- Friant - Stricken 1920
- Chasseloup Laubat
- Bugeaud - Stricken 1907
- Descartes class
- Descartes - Stricken 1920
- Pascal
- D'Assa class
- D'Assas
- Du Chayla
- Cassard - Stricken 1924
- Catinat class
- D'Entrecasteaux
- Guichen - Stricken 1922
- Chateaurenault - Sunk 1917
- D'Estrees class
- D'Estrees - Strickedn 1922
- Infernet - Aground 1910
- Jurien de la Graviere - Stricken 1922
- La Tour d'Auvergne - Renamed Pluton, sank 1939
- Emile Bertin
- Duguay-Trouin class
- Duguay-Trouin - BU 1952
- Lamotte-Piquet - Sunk 1945
- Primauget - Damaged and aground, 1942
- La Galissonniere class
- La Galissonniere - Sunk 1944
- Jean de Vienne - Sunk 1943
- Marseillaise - Scuttled 1942
- Gloire
- Montcalm - BU 1970
- Georges Leygues
- Jeanne d'Arc - BU 1966
- De Grasse - BU 1976
- Colbert - Preserved at Toulouse
Large cruisers
- Dupuy de Lome
- Amiral Charner class
- Amiral Charner - Torpedoed 1916
- Bruix - BU 1920
- Chanzy - Wrecked 1907
- Latouche-Treville - BU 1926
- Pothuau - BU 1929
- Jeanne d'Arc - BU 1934
- Gueydon class
- Gueydon - BU 1942
- Montcalm - BU 1943
- Dupetit-Thouars - Torpedoed 1918
- Dupleix class
- Dupleix - BU 1922
- Desaix - BU 1927
- Kleber - Mined 1917
- Gloire class
- Gloire - BU
- Marseillaise - BU
- Sully - Wrecked 1905
- Conde
- Amiral Aube - BU
- Leon Gambetta class
- Leon Gambetta - Torpedoed 1915
- Jules Ferry - BU
- Victor Hugo - BU 1930
- Jules Michelet
- Ernest Renan - Stricken 1931
- Edgar Quinet class
- Edgar Quinet - Sank 1930
- Waldeck-Rousseau - BU 1941-44
- Duquesne class
- Duquesne - BU 1955
- Tourville - BU 1962
- Suffren class
- Suffren - BU 1974
- Colbert - Scuttled 1942
- Foch - Scuttled 1942, BU 1943
- Dupleix
- Algerie - Scuttled 1942, BU 1943
Germany
Protected and light cruisers
- Zieten - BU 1921
- Meteor class
- Meteor - Stricken 1911
- Comet - Stricken 1911
- Charlotte
- Schwalbe class
- Bussard class
- Bussard
- Falke
- Seeadler - Sunk 1917
- Condor - Stricken 1920
- Cormoran - Scuttled 1914
- Geier - Captured 1917, sunk 1918
- Kaiserin Augusta - Stricken 1919
- Hela - Torpedoed 1914
- Gefion
- Gazelle class
- Gazelle - Stricken 1920
- Niobe - Stricken 1925, sold to Yugoslavia, recaptured 1943
- Nymphe - Stricken 1931
- Thetis - Stricken 1929
- Ariadne - Sunk 1914
- Amazone - Stricken 1913
- Medusa - Scuttled 1945
- Frauenlob - Sunk 1916
- Arcona - Scuttled 1945
- Undine - Sunk 1915
- Bremen class
- Bremen - Mined 1915
- Hamburg
- Berlin - Scuttled 1947
- Lubeck
- Munchen
- Leipzig - Sunk 1914
- Danzig
- Konigsberg class
- Konigsberg - Scuttled 1915
- Nurnberg - Sunk 1914
- Stuttgart - BU 1921
- Stettin
- Dresden class
- Dresden - Scuttled 1915
- Emden - Wrecked 1914
- Kolberg class
- Kolberg - BU 1929
- Mainz - Sunk 1914
- Coln - Sunk 1914
- Augsberg - BU 1922
- Magdeburg class
- Magdeburg - Sunk 1914
- Breslau - Mined 1918
- Strassburg - To Italy, renamed Bari, sunk 1943
- Stralsund - BU 1935
- Karlsruhe class
- Karlsruhe - Blew up 1914
- Rostock - Sunk 1916
- Graudenz class
- Graudenz - To Italy 1921, renamed Ancona, BU 1938
- Regensburg - To France 1920, renamed Strasbourg, recaptured 1940
- Pillau class
- Pillau - To Italy 1921, renamed Bari, sunk 1943
- Elbing - Sunk 1916
- Wiesbaden class
- Wiesbaden - Sunk in Battle of Jutland 1916
- Frankfurt - Surrendered 1918, scuttled 1921
- Konigsberg class
- Konigsberg - To France 1920
- Karlsruhe - Scuttled Scapa Flow 1919
- Emden - BU 1926
- Nurnberg - Sunk 1922
- Brummer class
- Brummer - Scuttled Scapa Flow 1919
- Bremse - Scuttled Scapa Flow 1919
- Coln class
- Coln - Scuttled Scapa Flow 1919
- Wiesbaden - BU 1920
- Dresden - Scuttled Scapa Flow 1919
- Emden - Scuttled 1945
- 'K' class
- Konigsberg - Sunk 1940
- Karlsruhe - Sunk 1940
- Koln - Sunk 1945
- Leipzig - To Britain, scuttled 1946
- Nurnberg - To Russia 1946, BU c. 1960
- 'SP' class (not built)
Armored, battle- and heavy cruisers
Italy
Light and protected cruisers
- Giovanni Bausan
- Etna class
- Etna
- Vesuvio
- Stromboli
- Ettore Fieramosca
- Dogali - Sold to Uruguay 1908 and renamed Montevideo, BU 1932
- Piemonte
- Lombardia class
- Lombardia
- Elba
- Etruria - Sank 1918
- Liguria
- Puglia
- Calabria
- Libia
- Quarto
- Taranto (ex-German Strassburg) - Sunk 1944
- Bari (ex-German Pillau) - Sunk 1943, BU 1948
- Brindisi (ex-Austrian Helgoland) - BU
- Venezia (ex-Austrian Saida) - BU
- Ancona (ex-German Graudenz) - BU
- Di Giussano class
- Alberico da Barbiano (1930) - Sunk 1941
- Alberto di Giussano (1930) - Sunk 1941
- Bartolomeo Colleoni (1930) - Sunk 1940
- Giovanni dalle Bande Nere (1930) - Sunk 1942
- Cadorna class
- Luigi Cadorna (1931) - BU 1950s
- Armando Diaz (1931) - Sunk 1941
- Montecuccoli class
- Raimondo Montecuccoli (1934) - BU 1960s
- Muzio Attendolo (1934) - Sunk 1942
- Duca d'Aosta class
- Emmanuele Filiberto Duca D'Aosta (1934) - Sold to Russia 1949
- Eugenio di Savoia (1935) - Sold to Greece 1951 to replace Hella
- Capitani Romani class
- Attilio Regolo (1940)* - Sold to France 1948 and renamed Chateaurenault
- Scipione Africano (1941)* - Sold to France 1948 and renamed Guichen
- Pompeo Magno (1941)* - Surrendered 1943
- Ulpio Traiano (1942) - Torpedoed 1943
- Ottaviano Augusto (1942) - Sunk 1943
- Cornelio Silla (1941) - Sunk 1944
- Claudio Druso (-) - BU
- Caio Mario (1941) - Scuttled 1943/44
- Paolo Emilio (-) - BU
- Vipsania Agrippa (-) - BU
- Giulio Germanico (1941)Renamed San Marco, BU 1971/80
- Claudio Tiberio (-)
Only those units marked * were completed
- Etna class (not completed)
- Etna (1942) - Scuttled 1943, refloated
- Vesuvio (1941) - Scuttled 1943, refloated
- Cattaro (ex-Yugoslav Dalmacija, captured 1941, ex-German Niobe, purchased 1924) - Torpedoed 1943
- FR 11 (ex-French Jean de Vienne, captured 1943) - Captured by Germany 1943, sunk 1944
- FR 12 (ex-French La Galissonniere, captured 1943) - Captured by Germany 1943, sunk 1944
Armoured and heavy cruisers
- Marco Polo
- Vettor Pisani
- Carlo Alberto
- Giuseppe Garibaldi class
- Giuseppe Garibaldi
- Varese
- ?
- ?
- Pisa class
- San Marco class
- San Marco - Sunk c.1944
- San Giorgio - Sunk 1941
- Trento class
- Trento - Sunk 1942
- Trieste - Sunk 1943
- Bolzano - Sunk 1944
- Zara class
- Zara - Sunk 1941
- Pola - Sunk 1941
- Fiume - Sunk 1941
- Gorizia - Sunk 1944
Japan
Large cruisers
Netherlands
New Zealand
- Achilles - formerly British Achilles
Poland
Portugal
- Adamastor (1896)
- Sao Gabriel (1898)
- Sao Rafael (1898)
- Dom Carlos I (1898)
- Rainha Dona Amelia (1899)
Russia/USSR
Small cruisers
- Vitiaz class
- Vitiaz (1884) - Wrecked 1893
- Rynda (1885)
- Admiral Kornilov (1887)
- Svietlana (1896) - Sunk in Battle of Tsushima 1905
- Variag (1899) - BU 1921
- Askold (1900) - BU 1921
- Novik (1900) - Damaged and scuttled, 1904, captured by Japan, refloated, renamed Suzuya
- Boyarin (1901) - Sunk 1904
- Pallada class
- Pallada (1899) - Sunk 1904, captured by Japan, refloated, renamed Tsugaru, BU 1923
- Diana (1899) - BU 1922
- Aurora (1900) - Preserved St Petersburg
- Bogatyr class
- Bogatyr (1901) - BU 1922
- Kagul (1902)
- Pamiat Merkuria (1903) - Renamed Komintern, Sunk 1942
- Oleg (1903) - Torpedoed 1919
- Izumrud class
- Izumrud (1903) - Wrecked 1905
- Zemtchug (1903) - Sunk 1914
- Svetlana class
- Svetlana (1915) - Renamed Profintern, BU 1960
- Admiral Spiridov (1916)
- Admiral Greig (1916) - Aground 1938
- Admiral Nakhimov class
- Admiral Nakhimov (1916) - Renamed Chervona Ukraina 1926, sank 1941
- Admiral Lazarev (1916) - Renamed Krasni Kavkaz 1932
- Murmansk (ex-Milwaukee)
Large cruisers
- General Admiral (1873) - BU 1940
- Gerzog Edinburgski (1875)
- Vladimir Monomakh (1882) - Torpedoed in Battle of Tsushima 1905
- Dmitri Donskoi (1883) - Scuttled after Battle of Tsushima 1905
- Admiral Nakhimov (1885) - Torpedoed and scuttled in Battle of Tsushima, 1905
- Pamiat Azova (1888) - Torpedoed 1919
- Rurik (1892) - Sunk 1904
- Rossia (1896) - BU 1922
- Gromoboi (1899) - BU 1922
- Bayan class
- Bayan (1900)
- Admiral Makarov (1908)
- Pallada (1906) - Torpedoed 1914
- Bayan (1907)
- Rurik (1906) - BU 1923
- Kirov class
- Kirov (1936)
- Voroshilov (1935) - BU 1960s
- Maksim Gorkyy class
- Maksim Gorkyy (1938) - BU 1958
- Molotov (1939) - Renamed Slava 1958
- Kaganovich (1943)
- Kalinin (1943)
- Chapaev class - 10 ships
- Chapaev (1940)
- Zhelezniakov (1940)
- Frunze (1940)
- Kuibyshev (1941)
- Chkalov (1948)
- 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
- Kirov class - 4 ships
Spain
Small cruisers
Large cruisers
- Infanta Maria Teresa class
- Infanta Maria Teresa (1890) - Sunk 1898
- Vizcaya (1891) - Sunk 1898
- Almirante Oquendo (1891) - Sunk 1898
- Princesa de Asturias class
- Princesa de Asturias (1896)
- Cardenal Cisneros (1897) - Wrecked 1905
- Cataluna (1900)
- Cristobal Colon (Italian Giuseppe Garibaldi class) - Sunk 1898
- Emperador Carlos V (1895)
- Canarias class
- Canarias (1931)
- Baleares (1932)
Sweden
United States
See List of cruisers of the United States Navy.
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