List of cruisers of Spain

Unprotected cruisers

• Aragon class
  • Aragon (1879) - Hulked 1896
  • Navarra (1881) - Either hulked 1896 or became cadet training ship 1900 (sources differ)
  • Castilla (1881) - Sunk at the Battle of Manila Bay, 1898
• Alfonso XII class
  • Alfonso XII (1887) - Sold 1907
  • Reina Cristina (1887) - Sunk at the Battle of Manila Bay, 1898
  • Reina Mercedes (1887) - Scuttled 1898; salvaged by United States Navy; became USS Reina Mercedes (IX-25)
• Velasco class
  • Velasco (1881) - Sunk at the Battle of Manila Bay 1898
  • Gravina (1881) - Sank 1885
  • Infanta Isabel (1885) - Stricken c. 1927
  • Isabel II (1886) - Stricken c. 1905
  • Cristóbal Colón (1887) - Sank 1895
  • Don Juan de Austria (1887) - Sunk at the Battle of Manila Bay, 1898, refloated
  • Don Antonio de Ulloa (1887) - Sunk at the Battle of Manila Bay, 1898
  • Conde del Venadito (1888) - Stricken c. 1905

Protected cruisers

• <i>Isla de Luzón</i> class
  • Isla de Luzón (1886) - Captured by the United States at the Battle of Manila Bay, 1898; became USS Isla de Luzon (1886)
  • Isla de Cuba (1886) - Captured by the United States at the Battle of Manila Bay, 1898; became USS Isla de Cuba (1886)
  • <i>Marques de la Ensenada</i> (1890)
• Reina Regente class
  • Reina Regente (1887) - Sank 1895
  • Alfonso XIII (1891) - Scrapped early 1900s
  • Lepanto (1892)
• <i>Rio de la Plata</i> (1898) — Based on the French D’Entrecasteaux but larger at 422 feet (129 m) long.
• <i>Extremadura</i> (1900)
• Reina Regente (1906)

Armoured cruisers

• Infanta Maria Teresa class
  • Infanta Maria Teresa (1890) - Sunk at the Battle of Santiago de Cuba, 1898
  • Vizcaya (1891) - Sunk at the Battle of Santiago de Cuba 1898
  • Almirante Oquendo (1891) - Sunk at the Battle of Santiago de Cuba, 1898
• Emperador Carlos V (1895)
• Italian Giuseppe Garibaldi class
  • Cristóbal Colón (1897) - Sunk at the Battle of Santiago de Cuba, 1898
• Princesa de Asturias class
  • <i>Princesa de Asturias</i> (1896)
  • <i>Cardenal Cisneros</i> (1897) - Wrecked 1905
  • <i>Cataluña</i> (1900)

Light and scout cruisers

• Navarra (ex-Republica, ex-Reina Victoria Eugenia) (1923)
• Blas de Lezo class
  • <i>Blas de Lezo</i> (1925) - Wrecked 1932
  • <i>Mendez Nunez</i> (1924) - converted to an anti-aircraft cruiser^[1]
• Almirante Cervera class
  • Almirante Cervera (1928)
  • <i>Galicia</i> (ex-Libertad, ex-Principe Alfonso) (1927)
  • Miguel de Cervantes (1930)

Heavy cruisers

• Canarias class
  • Canarias (1936)
  • Baleares (1936) - Sunk at the Battle of Cape Palos, 1938

Notes

This page was last edited on 14 February 2024, at 06:25