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List of cruisers of Spain
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July 14, 2025
Contents
Unprotected cruisers
Protected cruisers
Armoured cruisers
Light and scout cruisers
Heavy cruisers
Notes
Vizcaya
Reina Regente
Princesa de Asturias
Canarias
Unprotected cruisers
Aragon
class
Aragón
(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
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
Princesa de Asturias
(1896)
Cardenal Cisneros
(1897) - Wrecked 1905
Cataluña
(1900)
Light and scout cruisers
Navarra
(ex-
Republica
, ex-
Reina Victoria Eugenia
) (1923)
Blas de Lezo
class
Blas de Lezo
(1925) - Sank 1932
Méndez Núñez
(1924) - converted to an anti-aircraft cruiser
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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
↑
Friedman, Norman "Anti-Aircraft Cruisers: The Life of a Class"
United States Naval Institute Proceedings
January 1965 p.96
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