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[1]

  • 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

Norway

Coastal defence ships serving, or ordered for, the Royal Norwegian Navy:[2]

  • 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

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

  1. ^ Scheina, pp. 404–405
  2. ^ Campbell, pp. 369–370

Bibliography

  • Campbell, N. J. M. (1979). "Norway". In Chesneau, Roger & Kolesnik, Eugene M. (eds.). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. New York: Mayflower Books. pp. 369–371. ISBN 0-8317-0302-4.
  • Gard, Bertil; Becker, William A. B (1966). "Scandinavian Coast Defense Ships: Part I – Sweden". Warship International. 3 (2): 130–139. JSTOR 44885673.
  • Scheina, Robert L. (1985). "Brazil". In Gray, Randal (ed.). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. pp. 403–407. ISBN 0-85177-245-5.