This is a list of Peruvian Steam frigates of the period 1852-1881:

{| class="wikitable"

! Ship name

! Ship type

! Origin

! Commissioned

! Guns

! Fate

|-

| Amazonas

| screw frigate

|

| 1852

| 34

| Ship runs aground and lost in Punta Quilque (Chile), 1866

|-

| Apurímac

| screw frigate

|

| 1855

| 36

| Ship scuttled in the Callao harbour to prevent capture, 1881

|-

| Independencia

| broadside ironclad frigate

|

| 1866

| 28

| Ship collide with a submerged rock and sank during the chase of the schooner Covadonga near Iquique (Perú, now Chile), 1879

|-

|}