Brazilian coastal defense ship Floriano

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Floriano, c. 1899
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Flag of Brazil (1889-1960).svgBrazil
NameMarshal Floriano
Namesake Floriano Peixoto
Ordered1890s
Builder Société Nouvelle des Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée, La Seyne, France
Laid down1896
Launched1898
Completed1900
Decommissioned1924
FateScrapped
General characteristics
Type Coast defense ship
Displacement3,162 tons standard [1]
Length267 feet 6 inches (82 m) [1]
Beam47 feet 3 inches (14 m) [1]
Draught13 feet 2 inches (4 m) [1]
Propulsion
Speed15.5 knots (29 km/h; 18 mph) maximum [1]
Complement200 [1]
Armament
Armour
  • Belt: 5 feet 6 inches (1.68 m) depth, 13.75 inches (349 mm) tapering to 4 inches (100 mm) thick [1]
  • Deck: 1.3 inches (33 mm) [1]
  • Casemate: 2.9 in (74 mm) [2]
  • Turret face: 8.6 in (220 mm) [2]

Floriano was a Deodoro-class coastal defense ship built for the Brazilian Navy at the end of the nineteenth century.

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Footnotes

  1. Gardiner et al, Conway's 1860–1905, 407 says the ship carried six of these guns, and does not list the 1-pounders. [2]

Endnotes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Brassey, Naval Annual, 1897, 49.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Gardiner et al, Conway's 1860–1905, 407.

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