List of cruisers of Spain

Vizcaya
Reina Regente
Canarias

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

  • Isla de Luzón 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)
    • Marques de la Ensenada (1890)
  • Reina Regente class
    • Reina Regente (1887) - Sank 1895
    • Alfonso XIII (1891) - Scrapped early 1900s
    • Lepanto (1892)
  • Rio de la Plata (1898) — Based on the French D’Entrecasteaux but larger at 422 feet (129 m) long.
  • Extremadura (1900)
  • Reina Regente (1906)

Armoured cruisers

Light and scout cruisers

  • Navarra (ex-Republica, ex-Reina Victoria Eugenia) (1923)
  • Blas de Lezo class
    • Blas de Lezo (1925) - Wrecked 1932
    • Mendez Nunez (1924) - converted to an anti-aircraft cruiser[1]
  • Almirante Cervera class
    • Almirante Cervera (1928)
    • Galicia (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

  1. ^ Friedman, Norman "Anti-Aircraft Cruisers: The Life of a Class" United States Naval Institute Proceedings January 1965 p.96