Pará-class monitor
A photo of Alagoas, possibly in Rio de Janeiro in the 1890s | |
| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Name | Pará class |
| Builders | Arsenal de Marinha da Côrte, Rio de Janeiro |
| Operators | Imperial Brazilian Navy |
| Preceded by | Silvado |
| Succeeded by | Javary class |
| Built | 1866–1868 |
| In service | 1867–1900 |
| Completed | 6 |
| Scrapped | 6 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | River monitor |
| Displacement | 500 metric tons (490 long tons) |
| Length | 39 m (127 ft 11 in) |
| Beam | 8.54 m (28 ft 0 in) |
| Draft | 1.51–1.54 m (5.0–5.1 ft) (mean) |
| Installed power | 180 ihp (130 kW) |
| Propulsion | 2 shafts, 2 steam engines, 2 boilers |
| Speed | 8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph) |
| Complement | 8 officers and 35 men |
| Armament | 1 × 70- or 120-pdr Whitworth gun |
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The Pará-class monitors were a group of six wooden-hulled ironclad monitors named after Brazilian provinces and built in Brazil for the Imperial Brazilian Navy during the Paraguayan War in the late 1860s. The first three ships finished, Pará, Alagoas and Rio Grande, participated in the Passage of Humaitá in February 1868. Afterwards the remaining ships joined the first three and they all provided fire support for the army for the rest of the war. The ships were split between the newly formed Upper Uruguay (Portuguese: Alto Uruguai) and Mato Grosso Flotillas after the war. Alagoas was transferred to Rio de Janeiro in the 1890s and participated in the Fleet Revolt of 1893–94.