# List of capital ships of minor navies

This is a list of capital ships (battleships, ironclads and coastal defence ships) of minor navies:

## Argentina

* El Plata class
** ARA El Plata (1874)
** ARA Los Andes (1874)
* Almirante Brown class
** ARA Almirante Brown (1880)
* Independencia class
** ARA Independencia (1891)
** ARA Libertad (1892) - named Nueve de Julio when ordered
* Rivadavia class
** ARA Rivadavia (1911) - Broken up 1950s
** ARA Moreno (1911) - Broken up 1950s

## Australia (Victoria colony until 1901)

* HMVS Nelson (1814, ex-HMS Nelson, transferred 1867 to Victoria) - Cut down to frigate, broken up 1928
* HMVS Cerberus (1868) - Scuttled as breakwater 1926
* HMAS Australia (1913) - Scuttled in 1924

## Brazil
### Ships of the line

* Vasco da Gama 74–80 (1792, ex-Portuguese, captured 1822)
* Medusa 68–74 (1786, ex-Portuguese, captured 1822, ex-Nossa Senhora do Monte do Carmo, renamed 1793)
* Afonso de Albuquerque 62–64 (1767, ex-Portuguese, captured 1822, ex-Nossa Senhora dos Prazeres, renamed 1796/97) - Discarded, 1826
* Principe Real 90 (1771, ex-Portuguese, captured 1822, ex-Nossa Senhora da Conceicão, renamed 1794)
* Conde Dom Henrique 74 (1763, ex-Portuguese, captured 1822, ex-Nossa Senhora do Pilar, renamed 1793)
* Dom Pedro I 64–74 (1763, ex-Portuguese Martim de Freitas, acquired 1822, ex-Infante Dom Pedro Carlos, renamed 1806, ex-Santo António e São José, renamed 1794, renamed Dom Pedro I)
* Dom João de Castro 64–72 (1766, ex-Portuguese, acquired 1822, ex-Nossa Senhora do Bom Sucesso, renamed 1800)

### Coastal defence ships

* Barroso (1864) – Broken up 1885
* Brasil (1864) – Broken up 1905
* Tamandaré (1865) – Broken up 1885
* Lima Barros (1865) – Intended as Paraguayan Bellona, renamed 1865, broken up 1905
* Rio de Janeiro (1866) – Mined 1866
* Bahia (1865) – Intended as Paraguayan Minerva, renamed 1865, broken up 1895
* Silvado (1866) – Intended as Paraguayan Nemesis, renamed 1865, discarded c. 1885, broken up 1895
* Mariz e Barros class
** Mariz e Barros (1866) – Discarded 1890, broken up 1892
** Herval (1866) – Discarded 1885, broken up 1887
* Cabral class
** Cabral (1866) – Discarded 1885, broken up 1887
** Colombo (1866) – Discarded 1885, broken up 1887
* Sete de Setembro (1874) – Discarded, broken up 1895
* Javary class
** Javary (1873) – Sank 1893
** Solimões (1874) – Broken up during the 1890s
* Independencia – Confiscated by Britain before delivery, renamed HMS Neptune
* Riachuelo (1883) – Sunk 1910
* Aquidabã (1885) – Renamed Vinte Quatro de Mayo 1894, renamed Aquidabã 1900, sunk 1906
* Marechal Deodoro class
** Marechal Deodoro (1898) – To Mexico 1924, renamed Anahuac
** Marechal Floriano (1899) – Discarded, broken up 1936

### Dreadnoughts

Source:
* Minas Geraes class
** Minas Geraes (1910) – Broken up 1954
** São Paulo (1910) – Sank in storm while being towed to breakers 1951
* Rio de Janeiro – laid down in 1911 with seven main turrets; cancelled in 1912; sold to the Ottoman Navy as Sultân Osmân-ı Evvel in 1914 but seized by the Royal Navy in 1914 and named HMS Agincourt (scrapped 1924)
* Riachuelo – planned super-dreadnought, ordered but canceled after the beginning of the First World War

## Chile

* Almirante Cochrane class
** Almirante Cochrane (1874) - Broken up c. 1935
** Valparaiso (1875), renamed as Blanco Encalada in 1877 - Torpedoed 1891
* Huáscar (1865, ex-Peruvian Huáscar, captured 1879) - preserved at Talcahuano
* Capitan Prat (1890)
* Constitución class (not handed over)
** Constitución (1903) - Confiscated by Britain 1903, renamed HMS Swiftsure, sold for breaking up 1920
** Libertad (1903) - Confiscated by Britain 1903, renamed HMS Triumph, torpedoed 1915
* Almirante Latorre class
** Almirante Latorre (1913) - purchased by Britain 1914 and renamed HMS Canada, repurchased 1920, broken up 1959
** Almirante Cochrane (1913) - purchased by Britain 1918, renamed HMS Eagle and converted to aircraft carrier, sunk 1942

## China

* Dingyuan class
** Dingyuan (1881) - Sunk 1895
** Zhenyuan (1882) - Captured by Japan 1895, broken up 1910
* Pingyuan (1890) - Captured by Japan 1894, sunk 1904

## Colombia

* ? (1785, ex-Swedish Tapperheten 60, transferred 1825) - To Portugal by 1848

## India (British colony)

* Magdala (1870)

## Finland

* Väinämöinen-class
** Väinämöinen (1932) - Transferred to Soviet Union 1947
** Ilmarinen (1934) - Sunk by mines 1941

## Mexico

Ship of the line
* Congreso Mexicano (1789, ex-Spanish Asia, mutinied and handed over 1825) - Broken up 1830
Coastal defence ship
* Anahuac (1898, ex-Brazilian Marshal Deodoro, obtained 1924)

## Norway

Coastal defence ships serving, or ordered for, the Royal Norwegian Navy:
* Tordenskjold class
** Tordenskjold (1897) - Captured by Germany 1940 and renamed Nymphe, reverted 1945, BU 1948
** Harald Haarfagre (1897) - Captured by Germany 1940 and renamed Thetis, reverted 1945, BU 1948
* Eidsvold class
** Norge (1900) - Torpedoed 1940
** Eidsvold (1900) - Torpedoed 1940
* Bjørgvin class
** Bjørgvin (1912) - Confiscated by the British Navy and renamed HMS Glatton, blew up
** Nidaros (1912) - Confiscated by the British Navy and renamed HMS Gorgon

## Peru

* Independencia (1865) - Wrecked 1879
* Huáscar (1865) - Captured by Chile 1879, preserved at Talcahuano

## Thailand

* Thonburi-class
** Thonburi (1938) - Struck 1959
** Sri Ayudhya (1938) - Sunk 1951 during the Manhattan Rebellion

## Ukraine

All Ukrainian battleships were previously part of the Russian Black Sea Fleet and were subsequently taken over by the Soviet Union
* Evstafi-class
** Evstafi
** Ioann Zlatoust
* Rostislav
* Soborna Ukraina

## Yugoslavia

* Tegetthoff-class
** Jugoslavija (1918) - Transferred on 31 October 1918 from the Austro-Hungarian Navy, sunk by Italian frogmen on the following day
* Kumbor (1919) - War reparation from Austria-Hungary, scrapped 1922

## Citation

* ↑ Scheina, pp. 404–405
* ↑ Campbell, pp. 369–370