Cruiser
Parent Type: Surface Combatants
Quick Facts
- Era
- 19th–20th Century
- Role
- Independent warship and fleet support
- Notable For
- Speed and range
Cruisers were medium-sized warships designed for scouting
Filters
Ships in this Type Tree
Decommissioned (22)
- HMS Suffolk (55) – County-class cruiser county
- HMS Berwick (65) – County-class cruiser county
- HMS Devonshire (39) – County-class cruiser county
- HMS Norfolk (55) – County-class cruiser county
- HMS London (69) – County-class cruiser county
- HMS Shropshire (73) – County-class cruiser county
- HMS Sussex (96) – County-class cruiser county
- HMS Achilles (1932) – Leander-class cruiser
- HMS Ajax (1934) – Leander-class cruiser
- HMS Sheffield (1936) – Town-class cruiser
- HMS Newcastle (16) – Town-class cruiser town
- HMS Birmingham (32) – Town-class cruiser town
- HMS Liverpool (11) – Town-class cruiser town
- HMS Kenya (14) – Crown Colony-class cruiser
- HMS Euryalus (42) – Dido-class cruiser
- HMS Nigeria (60) – Crown Colony-class cruiser
- HMS Mauritius (80) – Crown Colony-class cruiser
- HMS Jamaica (44) – Crown Colony-class cruiser
- HMS Gambia (48) – Crown Colony-class cruiser
- HMS Sirius (82) – Dido-class cruiser
- HMS Scylla (98) – Dido-class cruiser
- HMS Bermuda (30) – Crown Colony-class cruiser
Lost (9)
- HMS Cornwall (56) – County-class cruiser county
- HMS Dorsetshire (40) – County-class cruiser county
- HMS Exeter (1929) – York-class cruiser
- HMS Southampton (83) – Town-class cruiser town
- HMS Manchester (15) – Town-class cruiser town
- HMS Gloucester (62) – Town-class cruiser town
- HMS Edinburgh (1938) – Town-class cruiser
- HMS Fiji (58) – Fiji-class cruiser
- HMS Charybdis (88) – Dido-class cruiser
Preserved (1)
Related Types
- Anti-Air Destroyer
- Anti-Aircraft Cruiser
- Anti-Submarine Frigate
- Anti-Submarine Warfare Ship
- Armoured Cruiser
- Armoured Gunboat
- Coastal Defence Ship
- Colonial Gunboat
- Convoy Escort Vessel
- Corvette
- Destroyer
- Destroyer Escort
- Destroyer Leader
- Dispatch Gunboat
- Escort Destroyer
- Escort Sloop
- Fast Attack Craft
- Fleet Destroyer
- Fleet Screening Ship
- Frigate
- Guided Missile Cruiser
- Guided Missile Destroyer
- Guided Missile Frigate
- Gunboat
- Heavy Cruiser
- Hydrofoil
- Light Cruiser
- Littoral Combat Ship
- Missile Boat
- Modular Warship
- Monitor
- Multi-Role Combat Ship
- Ocean Escort Vessel
- Protected Cruiser
- Radar Picket Ship
- River Gunboat
- River Monitor
- Scout Cruiser
- Stealth Destroyer
- Stealth Frigate
- Submarine Chaser
- Torpedo Boat
- Torpedo Boat Destroyer
- Torpedo Boat Destroyer Leader