List of cruisers
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This is a so far incomplete list of cruisers 1860-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. Dates are launching dates.
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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
- ARA Veinticinco de Mayo
- ARA Almirante Brown
- La Argentina class cruiser
- ARA La Argentina
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
Brazil
- Almirante Tamandare (1890)
- Benjamin Constant (1892)
- Republica (1892)
- Almirante Barrozo (1896)
Britain
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)
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)
Denmark
- Fyen (1882)
- Valkyrien (1888)
- Hekla (1890)
- Gejser class
- Gejser (1892)
- Heimdal (1894)
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
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
- Lützow - Scuttled in Battle of Jutland 1916
- Derfflinger class
- Derfflinger
- Hindenburg
- 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
Greece
- Nauarchos Miaoulis (1879)
Italian Pisa class armoured cruiser
- Georgios Averoff (1911) - Preserved
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
- Alberico da Barbiano (1930) - Sunk 1941
- Alberto di Giussano (1930) - Sunk 1941
- Bartolomeo Colleoni (1930) - Sunk 1940
- Giovanni delle 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
- 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
- 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
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
Netherlands
Protected and light cruisers
- Sumatra (1890)
- Koningin Wilhelmina der Nederlanden (1892)
- Holland class
- Holland (1896)
- Zeeland (1897)
- Friesland (1896)
- Gelderland (1898)
- Noordbrabant (1899)
- Utrecht (1898)
- Sumatra class
- HNLMS Sumatra (1920) - Sunk as a breakwater at Mulberry harbour during the D-day landings, 1944
- HNLMS Java (1921) - Sunk at the Battle of the Java Sea, 1942
- HNLMS Celebes - Planned but never completed
- De Ruyter class light cruiser
- HNLMS De Ruyter (1935) - Sunk at the Battle of the Java Sea, 1942
- Tromp class light cruisers
- HNLMS Tromp (1937) - Decommissioned in 1955, sold for scrap in 1969
- HNLMS Jacob van Heemskerk (1939) - Decommissioned in 1969, sold for scrap in 1970
- Zeven Provinciën class light cruisers
- HNLMS De Ruyter (1944) - Sold to Peru in 1973 and renamed Almirante Grau
- HNLMS Zeven Provinciën (1950) - Sold to Peru in 1975 and renamed Almirante Aguirre
New Zealand
- Achilles - formerly British Achilles
Norway
Protected cruisers
- Viking (1891)
- Frithjof (1896)
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
Poland
- ? - Transferred from Britain
Portugal
- Adamastor (1896)
- Sao Gabriel class
- Sao Gabriel (1898)
- Sao Rafael (1898)
- Dom Carlos I (1898)
- Rainha Dona Amelia (1899) - Renamed Republica
Romania
Protected cruiser
- Elisabeta (1888)
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
Spain
Protected cruisers
- Isla de Luzon class
- Isla de Luzon (1886) - Captured at the Battle of Manila Bay, 1898
- Isla de Cuba (1886) - Captured at the Battle of Manila Bay, 1898
- Marques de la Enseñada (1890)
- 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
- Aragon (1879)
- Navarra (1881)
- Castilla (1881) - Sunk at the Battle of Manila Bay, 1898
- 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
- Infanta Maria Teresa class
- Infanta Maria Teresa (1890) - Sunk at Battle of Santiago de Cuba, 1898
- Vizcaya (1891) - Sunk 1898 - Sunk at Battle of Santiago de Cuba, 1898
- Almirante Oquendo (1891) - Sunk at Battle of Santiago de Cuba, 1898
- Princesa de Asturias class
- Princesa de Asturias (1896)
- Cardenal Jimenez de Cisneros (1897) - Wrecked 1905
- Cataluña (1900)
- Cristobal Colon (c. 1895) - Italian Guiseppe Garibaldi class, sunk at Battle of Santiago de Cuba, 1898
- Emperador Carlos V (1895)
Heavy cruisers
- Canarias class
- Canarias (1935)
- Baleares (1937) - sunk in Spanish Civil War
Sweden
Armoured cruiser
- Fylgia (1905)
- Gotland
- ? class
- Tre Kronor
- ?