title: List of cruisers of Spain
text: # 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
  
  * 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) - Wrecked 1932
     * Mendez Nunez (1924) - converted to an anti-aircraft cruiser
  * 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
  