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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
- La Argentina
- Veinticinco de Mayo class
- Veinticinco de Mayo
- Almirante Brown
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
- Victoria Luise class
- Victoria Luise
- Hertha
- Freya
- Vineta
- Hansa
- Furst Bismarck - Stricken 1919
- Prinz Heinrich - Stricken 1920
- Prinz Adalbert class
- Prinz Adalbert - Torpedoed 1915
- Friedrich Carl - Mined 1914
- Roon class
- Roon - Stricken 1920
- Yorck - Mined 1914
- Scharnhorst class
- Scharnhorst - Sunk 1914
- Gneisenau - Sunk 1914
- Blucher - Sunk 1915
- Von der Tann
- Seydlitz
- Moltke class
- Moltke
- Goeben - To Turkey, renamed Yavuz, BU 1976
- Lutzow - Scuttled in Battle of Jutland 1916
- Derfflinger class
- Mackensen class (not completed)
- Admiral Hipper class
- Admiral Hipper - Scuttled 1945
- Prinz Eugen - Scuttled 1946
- Blucher - Sunk 1940
- Lutzow - Sold to Russia 1941, renamed
- Seydlitz (not completed) - Scuttled 1945
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
- Kongo class
- Kongo (1912) - Torpedoed and blew up, 1944
- Hiei (1912) - Sunk 1942
- Haruna (1913) - Bombed 1945, BU 1946
- Kirishima (1913) Damaged and scuttled, 1942
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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