List of capital ships of minor navies

HMAS Australia was the only battlecruiser to be operated by the Royal Australian Navy

This is a list of capital ships of minor battleship navies:

Argentina

• La Plata class
  • La Plata (1874)
  • Los Andes (1874)
• Independencia class
  • Independencia (1891)
  • Nueve de Julio (1890) - Renamed Libertad 1892
• Rivadavia class
  • ARA Rivadavia (1911) - BU 1950s
  • ARA Moreno (1911) - BU 1950s

Australia (Victoria colony until 1901)

• Nelson (1814, ex-British Nelson, transferred 1867 to Victoria) - Cut down to frigate, BU 1928
• 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 80-90 (c. 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) - BU 1885
• Brasil (1864) - BU 1905
• Tamandare (1865) - BU 1885
• Lima Barros (1865) - Intended as Paraguayan Bellona, renamed 1865. BU 1905
• Rio de Janeiro (c. 1865) - Mined 1866
• Bahia (1865) - Intended as Paraguayan Minerva, renamed 1865, BU 1895
• Silvado (1866) - Intended as Paraguayan Nemesis, renamed 1865, discarded c. 1885, BU 1895
• Mariz e Barros (1866) - Discarded 1890. BU 1892
• Herval (1866) - Discarded 1885. BU 1887

Cabral (1866) - Discarded 1885, BU 1887

Colombo (1866) - Discarded 1885, BU 1887

Sete de Setembro (1874) - Discarded, BU 1895

Javary (1873) - Sank 1893

Solimoes (1874) - BU during the 1890's

Independencia - Confiscated by Britain before delivery, renamed Neptune

Riachuelo (1883) - Sunk 1910

Aquidaban (1885) - Renamed Vinte Quatro de Mayo 1894, renamed Aquidaban 1900, sunk 1906

Marechal Deodoro class

• Marechal Deodoro (1898) - To Mexico 1924, renamed Anahuac
• Marechal Floriano (1899) - Discarded, BU 1936

Dreadnoughts

• Minas Gerais class
  • Minas Gerais (1910) - BU 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 Sultan Osman I in 1914 but seized by the Royal Navy in 1914 and named HMS Agincourt (scrapped 1924)

Chile

• Almirante Cochrane class
  • Almirante Cochrane (1874) - BU 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)
• Constitucion class (not handed over)
  • Constitucion (1903) - Confiscated by Britain 1903, renamed Swiftsure, sold for breaking up 1920
  • Libertad' (1903) - Confiscated by Britain 1903, renamed Triumph, torpedoed 1915
• Almirante Latorre-class battleship
  • Almirante Latorre (1913) - purchased by Britain 1914 and renamed Canada, repurchased 1920, broken up 1959
  • Almirante Cochrane (1913) - purchased by Britain 1918, renamed Eagle and converted to aircraft carrier, sunk 1942

China

• Dingyuan class
  • Dingyuan (1881) - Sunk 1895
  • Zhenyuan (1882) - Captured by Japan 1895, BU 1910

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) - BU 1830
• Anahuac (1898, ex-Brazilian edit] 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
    • 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