China
- Chao Yung class
- Chao Yung (1880) - Sunk 1894
- Yang Wei (1881) - Sunk 1894
- Chi Yuan (1883) - Captured by Japan 1895, renamed Sai Yen, mined 1904
- Kai Che class
- Kai Che (1882) - Explosion 1902
- King Ch'ing (1886)
- Huan T'ai (1886) - Collision 1902
- Nan Thin class
- Nan Thin (1883)
- Nan Shuin (1884)
- Fu Ch'ing (1893) - Storm 1898
- Chih Yuan class
- Chih Yuan (1886) - Sunk 1894
- Ching Yuan (1886) - Sunk 1895
- King Yuan class
- King Yuan (1887) - Sunk 1894
- Lai Yuan (1887) - Sunk 1895
- Lung Wei (1888) - Renamed Ping Yuen
- Tung Chi class
- Tung Chi (1895) - Sunk 1937
- Fu An (1894)
- Hai Tien class, 4,300 ton, Armstrong
- Hai Tien (1897) - Sunk 1904
- Hai Chi (1898) - Sunk 1937 as blockship in Yangtze river
- Hai Yung class
- Hai Yung (1897) - Sunk 1937 as blockship in Yangtze river
- Hai Chou (1897) - Sunk 1937 as blockship in Yangtze river
- Hai Shen (1898) "Pearl of the Sea" - Sunk 1937 as blockship in Yangtze river
- Chao Ho class
- Chao Ho (1912) - Sunk 1937.
- Ying Swei (1913) - Sunk 1937.
- Ning Hai class
- Ning Hai (1931) - Sunk 1937. Re-floated by Japan and renamed Ioshima, Sunk by USS Shad(SS-235).
- Ping Hai (1931) - Sunk 1937. Re-floated by Japan and ranamed Yasoshima. Sunk by US aircraft attack.
- Chung King class
- Chung King (1948) - Arethusa-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy HMS Aurora (12), sold on May 19, 1948 to the Nationalist Chinese Navy, Defected to Chinese Communists and then sunk by Nationalist aircraft in 1949, Continued in service as an accommodations and warehouse hulk until mid 1950s
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