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

Argentina

  • (1874)
  • (1874)
  • (1880)
  • (1891)
  • (1892) - named Nueve de Julio when ordered
  • (1911) - Broken up 1950s
  • (1911) - Broken up 1950s

Australia (Victoria colony until 1901)

  • (1814, ex-, transferred 1867 to Victoria) - Cut down to frigate, broken up 1928
  • (1868) - Scuttled as breakwater 1926
  • (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 (1866) – Discarded 1890, broken up 1892
  • Herval (1866) – Discarded 1885, broken up 1887
  • Cabral (1866) – Discarded 1885, broken up 1887
  • Colombo (1866) – Discarded 1885, broken up 1887
  • Sete de Setembro (1874) – Discarded, broken up 1895
  • Javary (1873) – Sank 1893
  • Solimões (1874) – Broken up during the 1890s
  • Independencia – Confiscated by Britain before delivery, renamed
  • (1883) – Sunk 1910
  • (1885) – Renamed Vinte Quatro de Mayo 1894, renamed Aquidabã 1900, sunk 1906
  • (1898) – To Mexico 1924, renamed Anahuac
  • Marechal Floriano (1899) – Discarded, broken up 1936

Dreadnoughts

Source:

  • (1910) – Broken up 1954
  • (1910) – Sank in storm while being towed to breakers 1951
  • – laid down in 1911 with seven main turrets; cancelled in 1912; sold to the Ottoman Navy as in 1914 but seized by the Royal Navy in 1914 and named (scrapped 1924)
  • Riachuelo – planned super-dreadnought, ordered but canceled after the beginning of the First World War

Chile

  • 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)
  • (not handed over)
  • Constitución (1903) - Confiscated by Britain 1903, renamed , sold for breaking up 1920
  • Libertad (1903) - Confiscated by Britain 1903, renamed , torpedoed 1915
  • (1913) - purchased by Britain 1914 and renamed , repurchased 1920, broken up 1959
  • Almirante Cochrane (1913) - purchased by Britain 1918, renamed 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 (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
  • Norge (1900) - Torpedoed 1940
  • Eidsvold (1900) - Torpedoed 1940
  • Bjørgvin (1912) - Confiscated by the British Navy and renamed , blew up
  • Nidaros (1912) - Confiscated by the British Navy and renamed

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

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