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:Scheina, pp. 404–405
(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:Campbell, pp. 369–370
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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