List of cruisers of Spain explained

Unprotected cruisers

• • (1879) - Hulked 1896
  • (1881) - Either hulked 1896 or became cadet training ship 1900 (sources differ)
  • (1881) - Sunk at the Battle of Manila Bay, 1898
• • (1887) - Sold 1907
  • (1887) - Sunk at the Battle of Manila Bay, 1898
  • (1887) - Scuttled 1898; salvaged by United States Navy; became
• • (1881) - Sunk at the Battle of Manila Bay 1898
  • (1881) - Sank 1885
  • (1885) - Stricken c. 1927
  • (1886) - Stricken c. 1905
  • (1887) - Sank 1895
  • (1887) - Sunk at the Battle of Manila Bay, 1898, refloated
  • (1887) - Sunk at the Battle of Manila Bay, 1898
  • (1888) - Stricken c. 1905

Protected cruisers

• • (1886) - Captured by the United States at the Battle of Manila Bay, 1898; became
  • (1886) - Captured by the United States at the Battle of Manila Bay, 1898; became
  • (1890)
• • - Sank 1895
  • (1891) - Scrapped early 1900s
  • (1892)
• (1898) — Based on the French D’Entrecasteaux but larger at 422feet long.
• (1900)

Armoured cruisers

• • (1890) - Sunk at the Battle of Santiago de Cuba, 1898
  • (1891) - Sunk at the Battle of Santiago de Cuba 1898
  • (1891) - Sunk at the Battle of Santiago de Cuba, 1898
• (1895)
• Italian
  • (1897) - Sunk at the Battle of Santiago de Cuba, 1898
• • (1896)
  • (1897) - Wrecked 1905
  • (1900)

Light and scout cruisers

• (ex-Republica, ex-Reina Victoria Eugenia) (1923)
• • (1925) - Wrecked 1932
  • (1924) - converted to an anti-aircraft cruiser^[1]
• • (1928)
  • (ex-Libertad, ex-Principe Alfonso) (1927)
  • (1930)

Heavy cruisers

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

Notes and References

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