Brazilian ironclad Sete de Setembro
The ironclad Sete de Setembro | |
| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Operators | Imperial Brazilian Navy |
| Succeeded by | None |
| Built | 1868–74 |
| In commission | 1874–93 |
| Completed | 1 |
| Lost | 1 |
| History | |
| Empire of Brazil | |
| Name | Sete de Setembro |
| Namesake | Sete de Setembro |
| Builder | Arsenal de Marinha da Corte, Rio de Janeiro |
| Laid down | 8 January 1868 |
| Launched | 16 May 1874 |
| Completed | 4 July 1874 |
| Reclassified | floating battery, 1879 |
| Fate | Sank after fire, 16 December 1893 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Armored frigate |
| Displacement | 2,174 metric tons (2,140 long tons) |
| Length | 73.4 m (240 ft 10 in) |
| Beam | 14.2 m (46 ft 7 in) |
| Draft | 3.81 m (12.5 ft) (mean) |
| Installed power | 2,000 ihp (1,500 kW) |
| Propulsion | 2 shafts, 2 steam engines, 4 boilers |
| Speed | 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
| Complement | 185 officers and men |
| Armament | 4 × 300-pounder Whitworth muzzle-loading rifled guns |
| Armor | |
The Brazilian ironclad Sete de Setembro was a wooden-hulled armored frigate built for the Imperial Brazilian Navy during the Paraguayan War in the late 1860s. Construction was delayed by a debate over her armament and she was not completed until 1874, by which time the ship was essentially obsolete. Sete de Setembro was transferred to Rio de Janeiro in the 1880s and captured by the rebels during the Fleet Revolt of 1893–94. She sank after she caught fire when the government forces recaptured her in late 1893.