Deodoro-class coastal defense ship
| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Deodoro class |
| Builders: | Société Nouvelle des Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée, La Seyne, France |
| Operators: |
 Brazilian Navy
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| 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: |
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| Speed: | 15 knots (28 km/h) |
| Complement: | 200 |
| Armament: |
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| Notes: | In 1912 both vessels were modernized with 8 Babcock & Wilcox oil-firing boilers replacing the coal-fired boilers. 400t of oil were carried. |
The Deodoro class were two French-designed and built coastal defense ships built for the Brazilian Navy in the late 1890s. Upon their completion, Scientific American called them small vessels of a type "built only for second-rate naval powers," but also noted that it was a "wonder" that "so much armor and armament could be carried" on a ship of its size. Still, they were the only modern armored Brazilian warships from their commissioning until the arrival of two dreadnoughts in 1910.
The ships had a low freeboard and long superstructures with single-gun main turrets arranged at each end. Their secondary batteries were also mounted at each end of the superstructure, albeit in casemates in each corner. All used British Armstrong guns.
In 1912, both ships were overhauled with new propulsion and armament. In 1924, Brazil sold Marshal Deodoro to the Mexican Navy. She served for another 14 years, primarily as a training vessel.
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