List of capital ships of minor navies
This is a list of capital ships of minor battleship 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 (c. 1792, ex-Portuguese, captured 1822)
- Medusa 68-74 (c. 1786, ex-Portuguese, captured 1822, ex-Nossa Senhora do Monte do Carmo, renamed 1793)
- Afonso de Albuquerque 62-64 (c. 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)
- ? 74 (c. 1763, ex-Portuguese Conde Dom Henrique, captured 1822, ex-Nossa Senhora do Pilar, renamed 1793)
- Dom Pedro I 64-74 (c. 1763, ex-Portuguese Martin de Freitas, acquired 1822, ex-Infante dom Pedro, renamed 1806, ex-Santo António e São José, renamed 1794; renamed Pedro I)
- ? 64-72 (c. 1766, ex-Portuguese Dom Joao de Castro, acquired 1822, ex-Nossa Senhora do Bom Sucesso, renamed 1800)
Coast defence ships
- Barrozo (1864) - Broken up 1885
- Brasil (1864) - Broken up 1905
- Tamandare (1865) - Broken up 1885
- Lima Barros (1865) - Intended as Paraguayan Bellona, renamed 1865, broken up 1905
- Rio de Janeiro (c. 1865) - 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
- Solimoes (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
- 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
Colombia
- ? (1785, ex-Swedish Tapperheten 60, transferred 1825) - To Portugal by 1848
Finland
- Ilmarinen class
- Ilmarinen (1931) - Mined 1941
- Väinämöinen (1932) - Taken by the Soviet Union after WWII, renamed Vyborg
India (British colony)
- Magdala (1870)
Mexico
- Asia 64 (1789, ex-Spanish Asia, mutinied and handed over 1825) - Broken up 1830
- Anahuac (1898, ex-Brazilian Marechal 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
- 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
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