List of cruisers

This is a so far incomplete list of cruisers 1860-present. It includes protected, light, armoured, battle-, heavy and missile cruisers. Dates are launching dates.

Contents

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Argentina

  • Patagonia (1885)
  • Nicochea (1890) - Renamed Veinticinco de Mayo
  • Nueve de Julio (1892)
  • Buenos Aires (1895)
  • Italian Giuseppe Garibaldi class
    • General Garibaldi (1895)
    • General San Martín (1896)
    • General Belgrano (1897)
    • General Pueyrredón (1897)
  • Veinticinco de Mayo class
  • La Argentina class cruiser
    • La Argentina
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Australia

Small cruisers

  • Protector (South Australia)
  • Encounter (1902)
  • British Chatham class
    • Sydney (1912)
    • Melbourne (1912)
    • Brisbane (1915)
  • Adelaide (1918)
  • British Birmingham class
    • Perth (1933) - Sunk 1941
    • Sydney (1934) - Sunk 1941
    • Hobart (1934) - BU 1962

Battlecruiser

  • Australia - Scuttled 1924

Heavy cruisers

  • Australia
  • Canberra - Sunk 1942
  • Shropshire
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Brazil

  • Almirante Tamandaré (1890), named after the Marquis of Tamandaré
  • Benjamin Constant (1892)
  • Republica (1892)
  • Almirante Barrozo (1896)
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Canada

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Chile

  • Arturo Prat - Renamed Tsukushi
  • Esmeralda (1883) - Renamed Idzumi
  • Presidente Errazuriz class
    • Presidente Errazuriz (1890)
    • Presidente Pinto (1890)
  • Blanco Encalada (1893)
  • Ministro Zenteno (1896)
  • Chacabuco (1898)

Armored cruisers

  • Esmeralda (1894)
  • General O'Higgins (1897)
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China

  • Chao Yung class
    • Chao Yung (1880) - Sunk 1894
    • Yang Wei (1881) - Sunk 1894
  • Chi Yuan (1883) - Captured by Japan 1895
  • Kai Che class
    • Kai Che (1882) - Explosion 1902
    • King Ch'ing (1886)
    • Huan T'ai (1886) - Collision 1902
  • Nan Thin class
    • Nan Thin (1883)
    • Nan Shuin (1884)
    • Fu Ch'ing (1893) - Storm 1898
  • Chih Yuan class
    • Chih Yuan (1886) - Sunk 1894
    • Ching Yuan (1886) - Sunk 1895
  • King Yuan class
    • King Yuan (1887) - Sunk 1894
    • Lai Yuan (1887) - Sunk 1895
  • Lung Wei (1888) - Renamed Ping Yuen
  • Tung Chi class
    • Tung Chi (1895) - Sunk 1937
    • Fu An (1894)
  • Hai Tien class
    • Hai Tien (1897) - Sunk 1904
    • Hai Chi (1898) - Sunk 1937
  • Hai Yung class
    • Hai Yung (1897)
    • Hai Chou (1897)
    • Hai Chen (1898)
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Denmark

  • Fyen (1882)
  • Valkyrien (1888)
  • Hekla (1890)
  • Gejser class
    • Gejser (1892)
    • Heimdal (1894)
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France

Early cruising ships

  • Armorique (1862)
  • Circé (1860)
  • Flore (1869)
  • Cosmao class
    • Cosmao (1861)
    • Dupleix (1861)
  • Talisman (1862)
  • Châteaurenault (1868)
  • Linois (1867)
  • Hirondelle (1869)
  • Duguay-Trouin
  • Duquesne - Stricken 1901
  • Tourville - Stricken 1901
  • Laperouse class
    • Laperouse
    • D'Estaing
    • Nielly
    • Primauguet
  • Villars class
    • Villars (1879)
    • Forfait (1879)
    • Magon (1880)
    • Roland (1882)
  • Iphigénie (1881)
  • Naïade (1881)
  • Aréthuse (1882)
  • Dubourdieu (1884)
  • Milan (1884)
  • Belliqueuse (1865)

Protected cruisers

  • Sfax (1884) - Stricken 1906
  • Tage (1886) - Stricken 1910
  • Amiral Cecille (1888) - BU 1919
  • Davout (1889) - Stricken 1910
  • Suchet (1893) - Stricken 1906
  • Forbin class
    • Forbin (1888) - BU 1921
    • Coetlogon (1888) - Stricken 1906
    • Surcouf (1888) - Stricken 1921
  • Troude class
    • Troude (1888) - Stricken 1908
    • Cosmao (1889)
    • Lalande (1889)
  • Linois class
    • Linois (1894)
    • Galilee (1896)
    • Lavoisier (1897) - Stricken 1920
  • Alger class
    • Alger (1889) - Hulked 1911
    • Jean Bart (1889) - Wrecked 1907
    • Isly (1891) - Stricken 1914
  • Friant class
    • Friant (1893) - Stricken 1920
    • Chasseloup Laubat (1893)
    • Bugeaud (1893) - Stricken 1907
  • Descartes class
    • Descartes (1894) - Stricken 1920
    • Pascal (1895)
  • D'Assa class
    • D'Assas (1896)
    • Du Chayla (1895)
    • Cassard (1896) - Stricken 1924
  • Catinat class
    • Catinat (1896)
    • Protet (1898)
  • D'Entrecasteaux (1896)
  • Guichen (1897) - Stricken 1922
  • Chateaurenault (1898) - Sunk 1917
  • D'Estrees class
    • D'Estrees (1897) - Stricken 1922
    • Infernet (1899) - Aground 1910
  • Jurien de la Graviere (1899) - 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

Armoured cruisers

  • Dupuy de Lome (1890)
  • Amiral Charner class
    • Amiral Charner (1893) - Torpedoed 1916
    • Bruix (1894) - BU 1920
    • Chanzy (1894) - Wrecked 1907
    • Latouche-Treville (1892) - BU 1926
  • Pothuau (1895) - BU 1929
  • Jeanne d'Arc (1899) - BU 1934
  • Gueydon class
    • Gueydon (1899) - BU 1942
    • Montcalm (1900) - BU 1943
    • Dupetit-Thouars (1901) - Torpedoed 1918
  • Dupleix class
    • Dupleix (1900) - BU 1922
    • Desaix (1901) - BU 1927
    • Kleber (1902) - Mined 1917
  • Gloire class
    • Gloire (1900) - BU
    • Marseillaise (1900) - BU
    • Sully (1901) - Wrecked 1905
    • Condé (1902)
    • Amiral Aube (1902) - BU
  • Leon Gambetta class
    • Leon Gambetta (1901) - Torpedoed 1915
    • Jules Ferry (1903) - BU
    • Victor Hugo (1904) - BU 1930
  • Jules Michelet (1905)
  • Ernest Renan (1906) - Stricken 1931
  • Edgar Quinet class
    • Edgar Quinet (1907) - Sank 1930
    • Waldeck-Rousseau (1908) - BU 1941-44

Heavy cruisers

  • Duquesne class
    • Duquesne - BU 1955
    • Tourville - BU 1962
  • Suffren class
    • Suffren - BU 1974
    • Colbert - Scuttled 1942
    • Foch - Scuttled 1942, BU 1943
    • Dupleix
  • Algerie (1930) - Scuttled 1942, BU 1943
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Germany

Protected and light cruisers

  • Zieten (1876) - BU 1921
  • Blitz class
    • Blitz (1882) - BU 1921
    • Pfeil (1882) - BU 1922
  • Greif (1886) - BU 1921
  • Wacht class
    • Wacht (1887) - Collision 1901
    • Jagd (1888) - BU 1920
  • Meteor class
    • Meteor (1890) - BU 1919
    • Comet (1892) - BU 1921
  • Nixe (1885) - BU 1916
  • Charlotte (1885)
  • Schwalbe class
    • Schwalbe (1887) - BU 1922
    • Sperber (1889) - BU 1922
  • Bussard class
    • Bussard (1890) - BU 1913
    • Falke (1891) - BU 1913
    • Seeadler (1892) - Sunk 1917
    • Condor (1892) - Stricken 1920
    • Cormoran (1892) - Scuttled 1914
    • Geier (1894) - Captured 1917, sunk 1918
  • Kaiserin Augusta (1892) - BU 1920
  • Gefion (1893) - BU 1923
  • Hela (1895) - Torpedoed 1914
  • Gazelle class
    • Gazelle (1898) - Stricken 1920
    • Niobe (1899) - Stricken 1925, sold to Yugoslavia and renamed Dalmacija, captured by Italy 1941, captured by Germany 1943, sunk
    • Nymphe (1899) - Stricken 1931
    • Thetis (1900) - Stricken 1929
    • Ariadne (1900) - Sunk 1914
    • Amazone (1900) - Stricken 1913
    • Medusa (1900) - Scuttled 1945
    • Frauenlob (1902) - Sunk 1916
    • Arcona (1902) - Scuttled 1945
    • Undine (1902) - Sunk 1915
  • Bremen class
    • Bremen (1903) - Mined 1915
    • Hamburg (1903) - Bombed 1944, refloated, BU
    • Berlin (1903) - Scuttled 1947 with poison gas shells
    • Lübeck (1904) - BU 1922
    • München (1904) - BU 1919
    • Leipzig (1905) - Sunk at the Battle of the Falklands, 1914
    • Danzig (1905) - BU 1921-23
  • 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 Taranto, 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)
    • SP 1
    • SP 2
    • SP 3

Armoured, battle- and heavy cruisers

  • Victoria Louise class
    • Victoria Louise
    • Hertha
    • Freya
    • Vineta
    • Hansa
  • Fürst Bismarck - Stricken 1919
  • Prinz Heinrich - Stricken 1920
  • Prinz Adalbert class
    • Prinz Adalbert - Torpedoed 1915
    • Friedrich Carl (1902) - Mined 1914
  • Roon class
    • Roon (1903) - Stricken 1920
    • Yorck (1904) - Mined 1914
  • Scharnhorst class
    • Scharnhorst - Sunk 1914
    • Gneisenau - Sunk 1914
  • Blücher - Sunk 1915
  • Von der Tann
  • Seydlitz
  • Moltke class
    • Moltke
    • Goeben - To Turkey, renamed Yavuz, BU 1976
  • Derfflinger class
  • Mackensen class (not completed)
    • Mackensen
    • Graf Spee
    •  ?
    •  ?
  • Admiral Hipper class
    • Admiral Hipper - Scuttled 1945
    • Prinz Eugen - Scuttled 1946
    • Blücher - Sunk 1940
    • Lützow - Sold to Russia 1941, renamed
    • Seydlitz (not completed) - Scuttled 1945
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Greece

  • Nauarchos Miaoulis (1879)

Italian Pisa class armoured cruiser

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Italy

Protected and light cruisers

  • Giovanni Bausan (1883)
  • Etna class
    • Etna (1885)
    • Vesuvio (1886)
    • Stromboli (1886)
    • Ettore Fieramosca (1888)
  • Dogali (1885) - Sold to Uruguay 1908 and renamed Montevideo, BU 1932
  • Piemonte (1888)
  • Umbria class
    • Umbria (1891)
    • Lombardia (1890)
    • Etruria (1891) - Sank 1918
    • Liguria (1893)
    • Elba (1893)
    • Puglia (1898)
  • Calabria (1894)
  • Libia
    • Basilicata
    • Campania
  • Quarto
    • Nino Bixio
    • Marsala
  • 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
  • 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
  • Duca degli Abruzzi class
    • Luigi di Savoia Duca degli Abruzzi (1936) - BU 1960s
    • Giuseppe Garibaldi (1933) - BU 1970s
  • Capitani Romani class (Only those units marked * were completed)
    • 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 (-)
  • 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 cruisers

    • Marco Polo
  • Vettor Pisani class
    • Vettor Pisani
    • Carlo Alberto
  • Giuseppe Garibaldi class
    • Giuseppe Garibaldi - To Argentina
    • Varese - To Argentina
    • Varese - To Argentina
    • Giuseppe Garibaldi - To Spain as Cristobal Colon, sunk 1898
    • Giuseppe Garibaldi - To Argentina
    • Varese (1899)
    • Giuseppe Garibaldi (1899)
    • Francesco Ferruccio (1902)
    •  ? - To Japan as Kasuga
    •  ? - To Japan as Nisshin
  • Pisa class
    • Pisa
    • Amalfi - Sunk 1915
  • San Marco class
    • San Marco - Sunk c.1944
    • San Giorgio - Sunk 1941

Heavy cruisers

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Japan

Small cruisers

  • Naniwa class
    • Naniwa (1885) - Wrecked 1912
    • Takachiho (1885) - Torpedoed 1914
  • Unebi (1886) - Sank 1887
  • Matsushima class
    • Matsushima (1890)
    • Itsukushima (1889)
    • Hashidate (1891)
  • Akitsushima (1892)
  • Yoshino (1892)
  • Idzumi (1883)
  • Suma class
    • Suma (1895) - BU 1928
    • Akashi (1897) - Scuttled 1930
  • Takasago (1897) - Mined 1904
  • Chitose class
    • Chitose (1898)
    • Kasagi (1898)
  • Tsushima class
    • Tsushima (1902)
    • Niitaka (1902)
  • Otowa (1903)

Armoured cruisers

  • Chiyoda (1890) - BU 1927
  • Asama class
    • Asama (1898) - BU 1947
    • Tokiwa (1898) - Air attack 1945,BU
  • Yakumo (1899)
  • Adzuma (1899)
  • Idzumo class
    • Idzumo (1899) - BU 1947
    • Iwate (1900) - BU 1947
  • Kasuga class (modified Italian Giuseppe Garibaldi class)
    • Kasuga (1902)
    • Nisshin (1903)

Battlecruisers

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Netherlands

Protected and light cruisers

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New Zealand

  • Achilles - formerly British Achilles
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Norway

Protected cruisers

  • Viking (1891)
  • Frithjof (1896)
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Peru

Former merchant ships

  • Socrates class (ex-Portuguese)
    • Socrates (1880) - Renamed Lima
    • Diogenes (1881) - Not delivered, purchased by Japan 1895 but not delivered, renamed Topeka
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Poland

Dragon Conrad - Transferred from Britain, ex D class cruisers

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Portugal

  • Adamastor (1896)
  • Sao Gabriel class
    • Sao Gabriel (1898)
    • Sao Rafael (1898)
  • Dom Carlos I (1898)
  • Rainha Dona Amelia (1899) - Renamed Republica
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Romania

Protected cruiser

  • Elisabeta (1888)
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Russia/USSR

Small cruisers

  • Askold class
    • Askold (1863)
    • Variag (1862)
    • Vitiaz (1862)
  • Pamiat Merkuria (1879)
  • Vitiaz class
    • Vitiaz (1884) - Wrecked 1893
    • Rynda (1885)
  • Admiral Kornilov (1887)
  • Svietlana (1896) - Sunk at the Battle of Tsushima 1905
  • Pallada class
    • Pallada (1899) - Sunk 1904, captured by Japan, refloated, renamed Tsugaru, BU 1923
    • Diana (1899) - BU 1922
    • Aurora (1900) - Preserved St Petersburg
  • Variag (1899) - BU 1921
  • Askold (1900) - BU 1921
  • Bogatyr class
    • Bogatyr (1901) - BU 1922
    • Kagul (1902)
    • Pamiat Merkuria (1903) - Renamed Komintern, Sunk 1942
    • Oleg (1903) - Torpedoed 1919
  • Novik (1900) - Damaged and scuttled, 1904, captured by Japan, refloated, renamed Suzuya
  • Boyarin (1901) - Sunk 1904
  • 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)

Armoured cruisers

  • General Admiral class
    • General Admiral (1873) - BU 1940
    • Gerzog Edinburgski (1875)
  • Vladimir Monomakh (1882) - Torpedoed at the Battle of Tsushima 1905
  • Dmitri Donskoi (1883) - Scuttled after the Battle of Tsushima 1905
  • Admiral Nakhimov (1885) - Torpedoed and scuttled at the 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

Heavy cruisers

  • 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
    • Slava
  • Kirov class - 4 ships
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Spain

Protected cruisers

  • Isla de Luzon class
  • Reina Regente class
    • Reina Regente (1887) - Sank 1895
    • Alfonso XIII (1891)
    • Lepanto (1892)
  • Rio de la Plata (1898)
  • Estremadura (1900)
  • Reina Regente (1906)

First class cruisers

  • Aragon class
  • Alfonso XII class
    • Alfonso XII (1887)
    • Reina Cristina (1887) - Sunk at the Battle of Manila Bay, 1898
    • Reina Mercedes (1887)

Small cruisers

  • Velasco class
    • Velasco (1881)
    • Gravina (1881) - Sank 1885
    • Infanta Isabel (1885)
    • Isabel II (1886)
    • Cristobal Colon (1887) - Sank 1895
    • Don Juan de Austria (1887) - Sunk at the Battle of Manila Bay, 1898
    • Don Antonio Uloa (1887) - Sunk at the Battle of Manila Bay, 1898
    • Conde del Venadito (1888)

Armoured cruisers

Heavy cruisers

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Sweden

Armoured cruiser

Mine cruiser

  • Älvsnabben (1943 - 1980)
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United Kingdom

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United States

See List of cruisers of the United States Navy.