Marshal Deodoro-class coastal defense ship

Class overview
Name: Marshal Deodoro class
Builders: Société Nouvelle des Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée, La Seyne, France
Operators:  Brazilian Navy
Preceded by: Javary class
Succeeded by: None
Built: 1898-1899
In service: 1900-1936
Completed: 2
Retired: 2
General characteristics
Type: Coast defense ship
Displacement: 3,162 tons standard
Length: 81.5 meters
Beam: 14.4 meters
Draught: 4.19 meters
Propulsion:
Speed: 15 knots (28 km/h)
Complement: 200
Armament:
  • 2 × Armstrong 9.2 inch, 45 caliber guns in 2 single turrets
  • 4 x 4.7 inch, 50 caliber guns
  • 6 x 6-pounder (57mm) Hotchkiss guns
  • 2 x 17.7 (450mm) torpedo tubes mounted on the beam
Armour:
Notes: In 1912 both vessels were modernized with 8 Babcock & Wilcox oil-firing boilers replacing the coal-fired boilers. 400t of oil were carried.

French-designed and built coast defense battleships built for Brazil in the late 1890s. They had a low freeboard, long superstructures and single-gun main turrets arranged close to ships ends with a secondary battery mounted in casemates. While they were built in France, they were armed with British Armstrong guns. The ships had a thick, but very narrow armored belt tapered to lower edge. While they were the most modern Brazilian capital ships of their day, they were completely outdated prior to World War I compared to major power's capital ships.[1]

In 1924, Brazil sold Marshal Deodoro to the Mexican Navy for the price of 8,000 Brazilian contos. She served in the Mexican Navy for another 14 years, primarily as a training vessel.[2]

Marshal Deodoro-class Coast Defense Battleships

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Citations

  1. ↑ "Marshal Deodoro coast defence battleships (1900-1901) - Brazilian Navy (Brazil)". Navypedia.org. Retrieved 2016-02-11.
  2. ↑ "Avalanche Press". Avalanche Press. Retrieved 2016-02-11.

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