List of capital ships of minor navies

Potemkin at anchor with the Romanian flag hoisted on her mast, Constanța, July 1905

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

Argentina

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  • ARA El Plata (1874)
  • ARA Los Andes (1874)
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  • ARA Almirante Brown (1880)
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  • ARA Independencia (1891)
  • ARA Libertad (1892) - named Nueve de Julio when ordered
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  • 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
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  • Mariz e Barros (1866) - Discarded 1890, broken up 1892
  • Herval (1866) - Discarded 1885, broken up 1887
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  • Cabral (1866) - Discarded 1885, broken up 1887
  • Colombo (1866) - Discarded 1885, broken up 1887
• Sete de Setembro (1874) - Discarded, broken up 1895
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  • 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
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  • Marechal Deodoro (1898) - To Mexico 1924, renamed Anahuac
  • Marechal Floriano (1899) - Discarded, broken up 1936

Dreadnoughts

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  • 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

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  • 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)
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  • 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
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  • 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

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

Colombia

• ? (1785, ex-Swedish Tapperheten 60, transferred 1825) - To Portugal by 1848

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:

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  • 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
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  • Norge (1900) - Torpedoed 1940
  • Eidsvold (1900) - Torpedoed 1940
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  • 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

Romania

• Potemkin - Briefly taken over by Romania from the Bolshevik mutineers, 8-9 July 1905