Arsenal de Marinha do Rio de Janeiro

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Rio de Janeiro Navy Arsenal
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Arsenal de Marinha do Rio de Janeiro
Ilha das Cobras, Rio de Janeiro in Brazil
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A view of the base with the city of Rio de Janeiro behind it.
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AMRJ
Location in Brazil
Coordinates 22°53′47″S43°10′27″W / 22.89639°S 43.17417°W / -22.89639; -43.17417
TypeNavy base
Site information
Controlled by Brazilian Navy
Open to
the public		No
Site history
In use1763-present (1763-present)
Garrison information
Current
commander		 Contra-Almirante José Luiz Rangel da Silva

The Arsenal de Marinha do Rio de Janeiro (AMRJ) is a military organization of the Brazilian Navy. It is located in Ilha das Cobras, at the Guanabara Bay, in the city of Rio de Janeiro. [1] The Arsenal is the main maintenance center and naval base of the Brazilian Navy, involving the design, construction and maintenance of ships and submarines, not only for the Brazilian Navy, but also friendly nations.

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The AMRJ provides shipbuilding services both for military strategic reasons (mastery of technologies, seeking the reduction of external dependence), as economic ones, seeking nationalisation of components and the encouragement of domestic industry.

History

The institution dates back to the installation of the Arsenal of Rio de Janeiro, at the foot of the hill of St. Benedict. Created on 29 December 1763, by the governor-general of Brazil António Álvares da Cunha, 1st Count da Cunha, with the purpose of repairing ships of the Portuguese Navy. At the time, the capital of the colony was being transferred from Salvador to Rio de Janeiro, among other reasons, for a better protection of the gold that came from Minas Gerais by the Royal Road.

With the arrival of the Portuguese Royal Family in 1808, the Arsenal started to be designated as Arsenal Real da Marinha or simply as Arsenal da Corte. [2] In 1820, its dependencies began to expand to the Ilha das Cobras. After the independence of Brazil, faced with the need to organize and operate a Navy, the activities of the Arsenal became a priority. At this stage, it started to be called as Arsenal Imperial da Marinha, better known as Arsenal de Marinha da Corte. [3]

The nineteenth century watched the transition from sailing to steam navigation. During the so-called Mauá era, vessels were built in the shipyard in Ponta d'Areia, in Niterói. [4] Later, with the outbreak of the Paraguayan War, vessels for the Imperial Brazilian Navy were built in shipyards in England and in the AMRJ. At the end of the conflict, Brazil had the most powerful navy in the South Atlantic. [5] In 1938 two Arsenals coexisted: the Arsenal de Marinha das Ilha das Cobras (AMIC) and the Arsenal de Marinha do Rio de Janeiro (AMRJ). [6]

After 1948, only the Arsenal located in Ilha das Cobras survived, assuming the designation of Arsenal de Marinha do Rio de Janeiro. [6]

Main achievements

Between the construction of surface units and submarines, and the activity of maintenance of the fleet are:

The AMRJ was honored by the Pan American Institute of Naval Engineering for its "contribution to the development of the Naval Engineering in the America", in 2002–2003, during the meeting in Havana, Cuba. The achievement was repeated in 2004–2005, during the meeting in Guayaquil, Ecuador.

Ships built in AMRJ

See also

Citations

  1. ↑ Gardiner, Chumbley & Budzbon 1995, p. 33.
  2. ↑ Gomes, Laurentino (2007). 1808 : como uma rainha louca, um príncipe medroso e uma corte corrupta enganaram Napoleão e mudaram a história de Portugal e do Brasil. São Paulo: Editora Planeta do Brasil. ISBN   9788576653202. OCLC   180190498.
  3. ↑ Arsenal de Marinha da Corte on mapa.an.gov.br, 29 Jun 2022
  4. ↑ "South America.; The Great Coffee Product of Brazil-- New-York Losing the Trade-- Brazilian Emancipation-- Railway Loans and Amazonian Navigation Contracts-- General News". New York Times . 22 August 1871. Retrieved 2022-01-31.
  5. ↑ Ferreira, Domingos P. C. Branco (1983). The Navy of Brazil: An Emerging Power at Sea. National Defense University.
  6. 1 2 "O Arsenal de Marinha da Ilha das Cobras - O AMIC" [The Marine Arsenal on Ilha das Cobras - The AMIC]. Revista Marítma Brazileira (in Brazilian Portuguese). Rio de Janeiro. 1 July 1998. Retrieved 29 June 2022– via Biblioteca Nacional do Brasil.
  7. ↑ Saunders 2009, p. 76.
  8. ↑ "Santa Cruz class Patrol submarine". Archived from the original on 2008-10-14. Retrieved 2022-06-29.

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