Brazilian coastal defense ship Floriano

Floriano, c. 1899
History
Brazil
Name	Marshal Floriano
Namesake	Floriano Peixoto
Ordered	1890s
Builder	Société Nouvelle des Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée, La Seyne, France
Laid down	1896
Launched	1898
Completed	1900
Decommissioned	1924
Fate	Scrapped
General characteristics
Type	Coast defense ship
Displacement	3,162 tons standard [1]
Length	267 feet 6 inches (82 m) [1]
Beam	47 feet 3 inches (14 m) [1]
Draught	13 feet 2 inches (4 m) [1]
Propulsion	8 Lagrafel d'Allest boilers [1] [2] Vertical triple expansion engines [1] 3,400 ihp (2,500 kW) [1] Coal-fired, capacity 236 tonnes (232 long tons; 260 short tons) [1]
Speed	15.5 knots (29 km/h; 18 mph) maximum [1]
Complement	200 [1]
Armament	2 × Armstrong 9.2 inches (230 mm)/45 caliber guns in 2 single turrets [1] 4 × 4.7 inches (120 mm)/50 caliber guns [1] 2 × 6 inches (150 mm) howitzers [1] 4 × 6-pounder (57 millimetres (2.2 in)) Hotchkiss guns [1] [A] 2 × 1-pounder (37 millimetres (1.5 in)) autocannon [1] 2 × 18 inches (460 mm) torpedo tubes [1] [2]
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.

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. Brassey, Naval Annual, 1897, 49.
2. Gardiner et al, Conway's 1860–1905, 407.

Bibliography

• Brassey, TA, ed. (1897). The Naval Annual, 1897. Portsmouth: J Griffin and Company. OCLC   5973345.
• "Floriano." Serviço de Documentação da Marinha — Histórico de Navios. Diretoria do Patrimônio Histórico e Documentação da Marinha, Departamento de História Marítima. Accessed 19 August 2017.
• Gardiner, Robert; Chesneau, Roger, eds. (1980). Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN   0-85177-146-7. OCLC   931766183.
• Gardiner, Robert; Gray, Randal, eds. (1985). Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN   0-85177-245-5. OCLC   833677044.
• Lyon, Hugh (1979). "Brazil". In Chesneau, Roger & Kolesnik, Eugene M. (eds.). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN   0-85177-133-5.
• Morgan, Zachary R. (2014). Legacy of the Lash: Race and Corporal Punishment in the Brazilian Navy and the Atlantic World. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. ISBN   978-0253014207. OCLC   952824891.
• "Notes and Queries of Service Afloat and Ashore". Navy & Army Illustrated. 6 (76): 401. 16 July 1898.
• "The New Brazilian Armorclad 'Marshal Deodoro'" . Scientific American. 82 (12): 184. 24 March 1900. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican03241900-184a.

Further reading

• "The Cruise of the 'Deodoro' and 'Floriano'". Revista Maritima Brasileira. September–October 1903.
• "The Navies of the Nations: Increasing the Brazilian Navy". Navy & Army Illustrated. 8 (133): 526. 19 August 1899.