List of capital ships of minor navies

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

Argentina

 * El Plata-class monitor
 * ARA El Plata (1874)
 * ARA Los Andes (1874)
 * Almirante Brown-class ironclad
 * ARA Almirante Brown (1880)
 * Independencia-class battleship
 * ARA Independencia (1891)
 * ARA Libertad (1892) - named Nueve de Julio when ordered
 * Rivadavia-class battleship
 * ARA Rivadavia (1911) - Broken up 1950s
 * ARA Moreno (1911) - Broken up 1950s

Australia (Victoria colony until 1901)

 * HMVS Nelson (1814, ex-HMS Nelson (1814), transferred 1867 to Victoria) - Cut down to frigate, broken up 1928
 * HMVS Cerberus (1868) - Scuttled as breakwater 1926
 * HMAS Australia (1911) (1913) - Scuttled in 1924

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-class ironclad
 * Mariz e Barros (1866) – Discarded 1890, broken up 1892
 * Herval (1866) – Discarded 1885, broken up 1887
 * Cabral-class ironclad
 * Cabral (1866) – Discarded 1885, broken up 1887
 * Colombo (1866) – Discarded 1885, broken up 1887
 * Sete de Setembro (1874) – Discarded, broken up 1895
 * Javary-class battleship
 * Javary (1873) – Sank 1893
 * Solimões (1874) – Broken up during the 1890s
 * Independencia – Confiscated by Britain before delivery, renamed HMS Neptune (1878)
 * BRAZILIAN BATTLESHIP Riachuelo (1883) – Sunk 1910
 * BRAZILIAN BATTLESHIP Aquidabã (1885) – Renamed Vinte Quatro de Mayo 1894, renamed Aquidabã 1900, sunk 1906
 * Marechal Deodoro-class battleship
 * BRAZILIAN BATTLESHIP Marechal Deodoro (1898) – To Mexico 1924, renamed Anahuac
 * Marechal Floriano (1899) – Discarded, broken up 1936

Dreadnoughts

 * Minas Geraes-class battleship
 * BRAZILIAN BATTLESHIP Minas Geraes (1910) – Broken up 1954
 * BRAZILIAN BATTLESHIP São Paulo (1910) – Sank in storm while being towed to breakers 1951
 * BRAZILIAN BATTLESHIP Rio de Janeiro – laid down in 1911 with seven main turrets; cancelled in 1912; sold to the Ottoman Navy as OTTOMAN BATTLESHIP 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

 * Almirante Cochrane-class battleship
 * 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)
 * Constitución-class battleship (not handed over)
 * Constitución (1903) - Confiscated by Britain 1903, renamed HMS Swiftsure (1903), sold for breaking up 1920
 * Libertad (1903) - Confiscated by Britain 1903, renamed HMS Triumph (1903), torpedoed 1915
 * Almirante Latorre-class battleship
 * CHILEAN BATTLESHIP 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 (1918) 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-class coastal defence ship
 * 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 coastal defence ship
 * Norge (1900) - Torpedoed 1940
 * Eidsvold (1900) - Torpedoed 1940
 * Bjørgvin-class coastal defence ship
 * Bjørgvin (1912) - Confiscated by the British Navy and renamed HMS Glatton (1914), blew up
 * Nidaros (1912) - Confiscated by the British Navy and renamed HMS Gorgon (1914)

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