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List of capital ships of minor navies

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

Argentina

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Australia (Victoria colony until 1901)

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Brazil

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Ships of the line

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  • 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

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Dreadnoughts[1]

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Chile

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China

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Colombia

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

India (British colony)

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  • Magdala (1870)

Finland

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Mexico

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Ship of the line

  • Congreso Mexicano (1789, ex-Spanish Asia, mutinied and handed over 1825) - Broken up 1830

Coastal defence ship

Norway

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Coastal defence ships serving, or ordered for, the Royal Norwegian Navy:[2]

Peru

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Thailand

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Ukraine

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All Ukrainian battleships were previously part of the Russian Black Sea Fleet and were subsequently taken over by the Soviet Union

Yugoslavia

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Citation

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  1. ^ Scheina, pp. 404–405
  2. ^ Campbell, pp. 369–370

Bibliography

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  • Campbell, N. J. M. (1979). "Norway". In Chesneau, Roger & Kolesnik, Eugene M. (eds.). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. New York: Mayflower Books. pp. 369–371. ISBN 0-8317-0302-4.
  • Gard, Bertil; Becker, William A. B (1966). "Scandinavian Coast Defense Ships: Part I – Sweden". Warship International. 3 (2): 130–139. JSTOR 44885673.
  • Scheina, Robert L. (1985). "Brazil". In Gray, Randal (ed.). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. pp. 403–407. ISBN 0-85177-245-5.