Deodoro-class coastal defense ship
Deodoro | |
| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Name | Deodoro class |
| Builders | Société Nouvelle des Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée, La Seyne, France |
| Operators | |
| Preceded by | Javary class |
| Succeeded by | None |
| Built | 1898-1899 |
| In service | 1900-1936 |
| Completed | 2 |
| Retired | 2 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Coastal defence battleship |
| 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 |
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| Notes | In 1912 both vessels were modernized with 8 Babcock & Wilcox oil-firing boilers, replacing the coal-fired boilers. 400 t of oil were carried. |
The Deodoro class were two French-designed and -built coastal defense battleships 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 ... so much armor and armament could be carried" on a ship of its size. They served the Brazilian Navy as its only modern armored warships until the arrival of two dreadnoughts in 1910.