List of cruisers of Spain

Protected cruisers

• Isla de Luzon class
  • Isla de Luzon (1886) - Captured by the United States at the Battle of Manila Bay, 1898; became USS Isla de Luzon (1886)
  • Isla de Cuba (1886) - Captured by the United States at the Battle of Manila Bay, 1898; became USS Isla de Cuba (1886)
  • Marques de la Ensenada (1890)
• Reina Regente class
  • Reina Regente (1887) - Sank 1895
  • Alfonso XIII (1891) - Scrapped early 1900s
  • Lepanto (1892)
• Rio de la Plata (1898)
• Extremadura (1900)
• Reina Regente (1906)

Unprotected cruisers

• Aragon class
  • Aragon (1879) - Hulked 1896
  • Navarra (1881) - Either hulked 1896 or became cadet training ship 1900 (sources differ)
  • Castilla (1881) - Sunk at the Battle of Manila Bay, 1898
• Alfonso XII class
  • Alfonso XII (1887) - Sold 1907
  • Reina Cristina (1887) - Sunk at the Battle of Manila Bay, 1898
  • Reina Mercedes (1887) - Scuttled 1898; salvaged by United States Navy; became USS Reina Mercedes (IX-25)
• Velasco class
  • Velasco (1881) - Sunk at the Battle of Manila Bay 1898
  • Gravina (1881) - Sank 1885
  • Infanta Isabel (1885) - Stricken c. 1910
  • Isabel II (1886) - Stricken c. 1905
  • Cristobal Colon (1887) - Sank 1895
  • Don Juan de Austria (1887) - Sunk at the Battle of Manila Bay, 1898, refloated
  • Don Antonio Uloa (1887) - Sunk at the Battle of Manila Bay, 1898
  • Conde del Venadito (1888) - Stricken c. 1905

Armoured cruisers

• Infanta Maria Teresa class
  • Infanta Maria Teresa (1890) - Sunk at the Battle of Santiago de Cuba, 1898
  • Vizcaya (1891) - Sunk at the Battle of Santiago de Cuba 1898
  • Almirante Oquendo (1891) - Sunk at the Battle of Santiago de Cuba, 1898
• Emperador Carlos V (1895)
• Italian Giuseppe Garibaldi class
  • Cristobal Colon (1897) - Sunk at the Battle of Santiago de Cuba, 1898
• Princesa de Asturias class
  • Princesa de Asturias (1896)
  • Cardenal Cisneros (1897) - Wrecked 1905
  • Cataluña (1900)

Light and scout cruisers

• Navarra (ex-Republica, ex-Reina Victoria Eugenia) (1923)
• Blas de Lezo class
  • Blas de Lezo (1925) - Wrecked 1932
  • Mendez Nuñez (1924) - converted to an anti-aircraft cruiser^[1]
• Almirante Cervera class
  • Almirante Cervera (1928)
  • Galicia (ex-Libertad, ex-Principe Alfonso) (1927)
  • Miguel de Cervantes (1930)

Heavy cruisers

• Canarias class
  • Canarias (1936)
  • Baleares (1936) - Sunk at the Battle of Cape Palos, 1938

Notes

1. Friedman, Norman "Anti-Aircraft Cruisers: The Life of a Class" United States Naval Institute Proceedings January 1965 p.96