Editing Cruiser (section)

==Former operators==

* {{navy|Argentina}} last cruiser, the {{sclass|Brooklyn|cruiser|2}} {{ship|ARA|General Belgrano|C-4|6}} was sunk in action during the [[Falklands War]] in 1982.
* {{navy|Austria-Hungary}} lost its entire navy following the Empire's collapse following World War I.
* {{navy|Australia}} decommissioned both its surviving {{sclass2|County|cruiser|2}}s in 1949.
* {{navy|Belgium}} returned its only cruiser, {{ship|French cruiser|D'Entrecasteaux||2}} to France following the abolition of its navy in 1920.
* {{naval|Brazil}} decommissioned its last {{sclass|Brooklyn|cruiser|2}}, [[USS St. Louis (CL-49)|''Almirante Tamandaré'']] in 1976.
* {{navy|Canada}} decommissioned [[HMS Uganda (66)|HMCS ''Quebec'']] in 1961.
* {{navy|Chile}} decommissioned its last {{sclass|Brooklyn|cruiser|2}}, [[USS Brooklyn (CL-40)|''O'Higgins'']] in 1991.
* {{naval|Taiwan}}'s last cruiser, {{ship|Chinese cruiser|Yat Sen||2}}, was decommissioned in 1958 and sold for scrapping in 1959. This light cruiser was akin to pre-WW1 light cruisers at time of commissioning and its contemporaries were gunboats; Taiwan's penultimate cruiser was [[HMS Aurora (12)|ROCS Chung King]], their lone vessel in the Arethusa-class. She defected to the People's Liberation Army Navy during the Chinese Civil War in 1949.
* {{navy|Independent State of Croatia}} only cruiser, [[SMS Niobe|''Znaim'']] was handed over to Germany in 1943.
* {{naval|Denmark}} decommissioned its last cruiser, {{ship|HDMS|Valkyrien|1888|6}} in 1923.
* {{navy|France}} decommissioned its last cruiser, {{ship|French cruiser|Jeanne d'Arc|R97|2}} in 2010.
* {{naval|Germany}} decommissioned its last cruiser, {{ship|German training cruiser|Deutschland||2}} in 1990.
* {{navy|Greece}} decommissioned its last active duty cruiser, [[Italian cruiser Eugenio di Savoia|''Elli'']] in 1965.
* {{flagicon|Haiti}} [[Haitian Navy]] only cruiser, [[Italian cruiser Umbria|''Consul Gostrück'']] sank due to the inexperience of her crew in 1910.
* {{navy|India}} decommissioned its {{sclass2|Crown Colony|cruiser|2}}, {{ship|INS|Mysore|C60|6}} in 1985.
* {{naval|Indonesia}} decommissioned its only cruiser, the {{sclass|Sverdlov|cruiser|2}} [[Indonesian cruiser Irian|RI ''Irian'']] in 1972.
* {{navy|Italy}} decommissioned helicopter cruiser [[Italian cruiser Vittorio Veneto|''Vittorio Veneto'']] in 2006 and aircraft cruiser {{ship|Italian aircraft carrier|Giuseppe Garibaldi|551|2}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.marina.difesa.it/uominimezzi/navi/Pagine/Garibaldi.aspx |language=it |accessdate=14 June 2023 |date=11 August 2016 |title=Garibaldi |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160811114326/http://www.marina.difesa.it/uominimezzi/navi/Pagine/Garibaldi.aspx |archive-date=2016-08-11 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/39262/all-you-need-to-know-about-italys-f-35-carrier-that-just-arrived-in-the-us |work=The War Zone |accessdate=14 June 2023 |title=All You Need To Know About Italy's F-35 Carrier That Just Arrived In The US |author=Thomas Newdick |date=15 February 2021 }}</ref><ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://naval-encyclopedia.com/coldwar/italy/aircraft-carrier-giuseppe-garibaldi.php |encyclopedia=Naval Encyclopedia |accessdate=14 June 2023 |title=Giuseppe Garibaldi, 1st Italian STOVL carrier |author=Dreadnaughtz |date=17 March 2023 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.modelboats.co.uk/news/article/giuseppe-garibaldi/490 |accessdate=14 June 2023 |title=Giuseppe Garibaldi |author=John Slater |date=June 2011 }}</ref> in 2024.
* {{navy|Empire of Japan}} surrendered all its remaining cruisers to the Allies following World War II.
* {{navy|New Zealand}} decommissioned its last cruiser, [[HMS Royalist (89)|HMNZS ''Royalist'']] in 1966.
* {{naval|Netherlands}} decommissioned its last cruiser, {{ship|HNLMS|De Zeven Provinciën|C802|6}} in 1975.
* {{naval|Pakistan}} decommissioned its only cruiser, {{ship|PNS|Babur|1956|6}} between 1982 and 1985. The ship was scrapped in 1985.
* {{navy|Peru}} decommissioned its last {{sclass|De Zeven Provinciën|cruiser|2}}, {{ship|BAP|Almirante Grau|CLM-81|6}} in 2017.
* {{navy|Poland}} returned its lone surviving {{sclass|Danae|cruiser|2}}, [[HMS Danae (D44)|ORP ''Conrad'']], to the United Kingdom in 1946.
* {{naval|Portugal}} decommissioned its last cruiser, [[Portuguese ironclad Vasco da Gama|NRP ''Vasco da Gama'']] in 1935.
* {{navy|Kingdom of Romania}} decommissioned its only cruiser, {{ship|NMS|Elisabeta||6}} in 1929. From 1985 to 1990, the Romanian People's Navy (and subsequently, the Romanian Naval Forces) classified ''[[Romanian frigate Mărășești|Muntenia]]'' as a light helicopter cruiser, but it was refitted and redesignated as a destroyer (ultimately, it was redesignated as a frigate in 2001).
* {{navy|South Africa}} decommissioned its only cruiser [[HMS Thames (1885)|SATS ''General Botha'']] in 1947.
* {{navy|Spain}} decommissioned its last cruiser, {{ship|Spanish cruiser|Canarias||2}} in 1977.
* {{naval|Sweden}} decommissioned its last cruiser, {{ship|HSwMS|Göta Lejon||6}} in 1971.
* {{navy|Turkey}} decommissioned its last cruiser, [[Ottoman cruiser Mecidiye|TCG ''Mecidiye'']] in 1948; they retained a battlecruiser, [[SMS Goeben|TCG ''Yavuz'']], which was decommissioned in 1950 and stricken from the Naval Register in 1954.
* {{navy|United Kingdom}} decommissioned its last cruiser {{ship|HMS|Blake|C99|6}} in 1979.
* {{navy|Ukrainian People's Republic}} lost its entire fleet upon its reintegration into the Soviet Union in 1921.
* {{navy|Uruguay}} decommissioned its only cruiser, [[Italian cruiser Dogali|ROU ''Montevideo'']] in 1932.
* {{navy|Venezuela}} decommissioned its only cruiser, [[USS Isla de Cuba (1886)|FNV ''Mariscal Sucre'']] in 1940.
* {{navy|Kingdom of Yugoslavia}} only cruiser [[SMS Niobe|KB ''Dalmacija'']] was captured by Germany during the Invasion of Yugoslavia in 1941.