Portuguese protected cruiser Dom Carlos I 1898-1910 and BRP Candiro Reis later Almirante Reis 1910-1925

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Ordered under the naval programme announced by royal decree dated 20 March 1890. Launched by Armstrong, Elswick, England on 5 May 1898, commissioned on 8 July 1899, decommissioned on 22 January 1925 and sold to be broken up in the Netherlands in February 1925. One story claims that she was seized by the Royal Netherlands navy and bombarded and sunk during the German invasion in 1940. A second story claimes that she was partly distmantled in 1918 to be overhauled which was never executed and withdrawn in 1923. The Dutch newspaper Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant dated 6 February 1925 reported that the Almirante Reis towed by the Dutch tug Humber was underway to Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, Netherlands. The edition dated 10 January reported that she was arrived at Lisbon together with the Dutch tug Seine which was to pick up the cruiser Sao Gabriel. The Voorwaarts dated 9 Feburary mentioned the arrival at Rotterdam, Netherlands.