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This is a list of
cruisers , from 1860 to the present. It includes
torpedo ,
unprotected ,
protected ,
scout ,
light ,
armoured ,
battle- ,
heavy and missile cruisers. Dates are launching dates.
Protected cruiser
Armored cruiser Garibaldi .
Torpedo cruiser
Patria (1893) - Decommissioned 1927
Protected cruisers
Armored cruisers
Heavy cruisers
Light cruisers
Light cruiser Rio Grande do Sul .
Auxiliary cruisers (former merchant ships)
Niterói (1893) - Ex El Cid , purchased 1893, sold to United States 1898 and renamed
USS Buffalo
Torpedo cruisers
Protected cruisers
Almirante Tamandaré (1890) - Retired 1915
Tiradentes (1892) - Decommissioned 1919
Republica (1892) - Retired 1921
Almirante Barroso class
Name unknown (1896) - Not acquired, purchased by Chile and renamed
Ministro Zenteno , decommissioned 1930
Almirante Barroso - Retired 1931
Amazonas (1896) - Not acquired, purchased by United States and renamed USS
New Orleans , decommissioned 1922
Almirante Abreu (1899) - Not acquired, purchased by United States and renamed USS
Albany , decommissioned 1922
Scout cruisers
Light cruisers
Protected cruiser
Light cruisers
Armored cruiser O'Higgins .
Unprotected cruiser
Arturo Prat (1880) - Purchase canceled and sold to Japan in 1883, renamed
Tsukushi , retired 1910
Protected cruisers
Armored cruisers
Light cruisers
Protected cruiser
Light cruiser Almirante Grau (1973).
Auxiliary cruisers (former merchant ships)
Sócrates class (ex-Portuguese)
Sócrates (1880) - Renamed Lima , assigned 1889, retired 1950
Diógenes (1881) - Renamed Callao , not delivered, purchased by the
United States in 1898 and renamed
USS Topeka
Scout cruisers
Armored cruiser
Comandante Aguirre (ex-French
Dupuy de Lôme ) (1890) - purchased 1912, purchase canceled 1914
Light cruisers
Protected cruiser
Montevideo (1885, ex-Italian
Dogali ) - purchased 1908, decommissioned 1932
Protected cruiser
Chaoyong docked at
Weihaiwei
Unprotected Cruisers
Chaoyong class
Kai Che (1882) - Explosion 1902
Nan Thin class
Pao Min (1885)
King Ch'ing class
King Ch'ing (1886)
Huan T'ai (1886) - Collision 1902
Tung Chi (1894) - Sunk 1937
Fu An (1897)
Hai Chi on 11 September 1911 in
New York City
Hai Chi on 11 September 1911 in New York City
Protected Cruisers
Jiyuan (1883) - Captured by Japan 1895, renamed Sai Yen , mined 1904
Chih Yuan class
Hai Chi class cruiser , 4,300 ton, Armstrong
Hai Yung class
Hai Yung (1897) - Sunk 1937 as blockship in Yangtze river
Hai Chou (1897) - Sunk 1937 as blockship in Yangtze river
Hai Shen (1898) "Pearl of the Sea" - Sunk 1937 as blockship in Yangtze river
[1]
Chao Ho class
Armoured Cruisers
King Yuan class
Lung Wei (1888) - Renamed Ping Yuen
Light cruisers
Ning Hai class
Ning Hai (1931) - Sunk 1937. Re-floated by Japan and renamed Ioshima . Sunk by
USS Shad .
Ping Hai (1931) - Sunk 1937. Re-floated by Japan and renamed Yasoshima . Sunk by US aircraft attack.
Yat Sen (1934) - Sunk 1937. Re-floated by Japan and renamed Atada . Returned to the Republic of China 1946, decommissioned 1958
British
Arethusa class
Guided missile cruisers
Taksin class (1939, requisitioned by Italy 1941)
Taksin (unfinished)
Naresuan (unfinished)
Battlecruisers
Unprotected cruisers
Protected cruisers
Hamidiye (Abdul Hamid) (1903) - BU 1947
Mecidiye (1903) - captured by Russian 1915, restored 1918, BU 1948
Light cruisers
Midilli (ex-German Breslau ) (1912) - purchased 1914, mined 1918
Torpedo cruisers
Protected cruiser
Light cruiser
Zniam (ex-KB Dalmacija , ex-SMS Niobe )
Unprotected cruiser
Protected cruisers
Valkyrien (1888)
Hekla (1890)
Gejser class
Gejser (1892)
Heimdal (1894)
Navarchos Miaoulis
Amalia (1861) - Renamed Hellas 1862, BU 1906
Navarchos Miaoulis (1879) - Sold 1931
Antinavarchos Kountouriotis (1914) - Purchased by Royal Navy while under construction
Lambros Katsonis (1914) - Purchased by Royal Navy while under construction
Elli (1912, purchased 1914) - Torpedoed by Italian submarine 1940
Giorgios Averof (1910) - Italian Pisa class, preserved at Faliro as museum
Elli II (1935, ex-Italian Eugenio di Savoia , obtained in 1951 as war reparations) - Stricken 1964
Protected cruisers
Light cruisers
Protected cruisers
Adamastor (1896) - Sold 1933
São Gabriel class
Dom Carlos I (1898) - Renamed Candido Reis 1910, disposed of 1923
Rainha Dona Amélia (1899) - Renamed República 1910, wrecked 1915
Armoured cruiser
Fylgia (1905) - Sold for BU 1957
Seaplane cruiser
Gotland (1933) - converted to an anti-aircraft cruiser
[2] - BU 1963
Light cruisers
Mine cruiser
Torpedo cruisers
Light cruisers
Guided-missile cruisers
Protected cruiser
Battlecruiser
Light cruisers
Heavy cruisers
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b
"Flag, Pearl & Peace" .
Time magazine . July 17, 1933. Archived from
the original on November 22, 2010. Retrieved 2010-12-18 .
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b Friedman, Norman "Anti-Aircraft Cruisers: The Life of a Class" United States Naval Institute Proceedings January 1965 p.96