Brazilian Navy

Brazilian Navy Marinha do Brasil
Seal of the Brazilian Navy
Active	1822–present
Country	Brazil
Type	Navy
Size	60,000 personnel (incl 15,000 marines) 112 ships 81 aircraft
Part of	Ministry of Defence Navy Command
Headquarters	Brasília, DF
Patron	Marquis of Tamandaré
Colors	Blue and white
March	(English: "White Swan")
Fleet	5 submarines 1 aircraft carrier 9 frigates 4 corvettes 5 landing craft 34 patrol boats 6 mine countermeasures vessel
Engagements	War of Independence (1821–24) Confederation of the Equator (1824) Cisplatine War (1825–28) Cabanagem Revolt (1835–40) Ragamuffin War (1835–45) Balaiada Revolt (1835–41) Platine War (1851–52) Uruguayan War (1864–65) Paraguayan War (1864–70) Naval Revolt (1893–94) Federalist War (1893-1895) World War I (1917–18) Lieutenants Revolts (1922–27) Constitutionalist war (1932) World War II (1942–45) Lobster War (1962–63) Araguaia guerrilla (1972–74) "UN missions" Haiti (2004–present) Lebanon (2011–present)
Commanders
Commander-in-Chief	President Michel Temer
Navy Commander	Admiral Eduardo Leal Ferreira
Notable commanders	Thomas Cochrane John Pascoe Grenfell Baron of Amazonas Marquis of Tamandaré Viscount of Inhaúma Pedro Max Frontin Augusto Rademaker Grünewald
Insignia
Ensign
Jack
Flag
Roundel
Aircraft flown
Attack	A-4 Skyhawk
Helicopter	SH-3 Sea King, AS-332 Super Puma, Super Lynx, Esquilo, Bell Jet Ranger, SH-60 Seahawk, Eurocopter EC725

The Brazilian Navy (Portuguese: Marinha do Brasil) is the naval service branch of the Brazilian Armed Forces, responsible for conducting naval operations. The Brazilian Navy is the largest navy in South America and in Latin America, and the second largest navy in the Americas, after the United States Navy.

The navy was involved in Brazil's war of independence from Portugal. Most of Portugal's naval forces and bases in South America were transferred to the newly independent country. In the initial decades following independence, the country maintained a large naval force and the navy was later involved in the Cisplatine War, the River Plate conflicts, the Paraguayan War as well as other sporadic rebellions that marked Brazilian history.

By the 1880s the Brazilian Imperial Navy was the most powerful in South America. After the 1893 naval rebellion, there was a hiatus in the development of the navy until 1905, when Brazil acquired two of the most powerful and advanced dreadnoughts of the day which sparked dreadnought race with Brazil's South American neighbours. The Brazilian Navy participated in both World War I and World War II, engaging in anti-submarine patrols in the Atlantic.