Brazilian coastal defense ship Deodoro

Deodoro during the Rio de Janeiro visit of the US Great White Fleet in 1908
History
Brazil
Name:	Marshal Deodoro
Namesake:	Deodoro da Fonseca
Ordered:	1890s
Builder:	Société Nouvelle des Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée, La Seyne, France
Laid down:	1896
Launched:	1898
Completed:	1900
Fate:	Sold to Mexico, 1924
History
Mexico
Name:	Anáhuac
Acquired:	19 April 1924
Decommissioned:	1938
Fate:	Scrapped
General characteristics
Type:	Coastal defense ship
Displacement:	3,162 tons standard
Length:	267 feet 6 inches (82 m)
Beam:	47 feet 3 inches (14 m)
Draught:	13 feet 2 inches (4 m)
Propulsion:	8 Lagrafel d'Allest boilers Vertical triple expansion engines 3,400 ihp (2,500 kW) Coal-fired, capacity 236 tonnes (232 long tons; 260 short tons)
Speed:	15.5 knots (29 km/h; 18 mph) maximum
Complement:	200
Armament:	2 × Armstrong 9.2 inches (230 mm)/45 caliber guns in 2 single turrets 4 x 4.7 inches (120 mm)/50 caliber guns 2 x 6 inches (150 mm) howitzers 4 x 6-pounder (57 millimetres (2.2 in)) Hotchkiss guns 2 x 1-pounder (37 millimetres (1.5 in)) autocannon 2 x 18 inches (460 mm) torpedo tubes
Armour:	Belt: 5 feet 6 inches (1.68 m) depth, 13.75 inches (349 mm) tapering to 4 inches (100 mm) thick Deck: 1.3 inches (33 mm) Casemate: 2.9 in (74 mm) Turret face: 8.6 in (220 mm)

Deodoro, also known as Marshal Deodoro, was a coastal defense ship built for the Brazilian Navy at the end of the nineteenth century. It was the lead ship of its class, alongside Floriano. Deodoro was one of several ships to rebel in the 1910 Revolt of the Lash, and it was used for neutrality patrols during the First World War. It was sold to Mexico in 1924, and broken up for scrap in 1938.

Deodoro was laid down by the French shipbuilding company Société Nouvelle des Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée in 1896, supervised by Admiral José Cândido Guillobel. Its construction was temporarily suspended by the Brazilians while they modified its design. It was launched on 18 June 1898, after a ceremony that was attended by representatives from Brazil, the French Navy, and a Russian gunboat. Its christening was accomplished with an electric button, which sent a signal to cut a cord and let a bottle of champagne break on the ship. At the beginning of the Spanish–American War (1898), officials from both participants traveled to France to inspect the incomplete Deodoro and sister ship Floriano in view of purchasing them for the conflict. Neither was close enough to completion to make such an acquisition worthwhile.

Deodoro was completed in 1900, and its trials were successful, including a 24-hour trial with a mean speed of 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph). After the ship was handed over to Brazil, the ship left France en route for Brazil, stopping along the way in the Spanish Canary Islands. A nearby British warship, which was at that time engaged in the Second Boer War, suspected the ship of being a Boer-chartered privateer heading south to interfere with British merchant ships plying along the coast of southern Africa. Although the Brazilians were able to convince the British of their identity, they steamed with lights off for the next night or two in an effort to avoid further confusion with any other warships.Deodoro arrived in Brazil on 18 February 1900.