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NITERÓI screw corvette (1864)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Niterói     Arsenal de Marinha, Rio de Janeiro 4.3.1857 28.4.1862 9.5.1864 discarded 1900

  

Displacement normal, t

1790

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

58.4

Breadth, m

12.6

Draught, m

5.41

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 HSE

Power, h. p.

1000

Max speed, kts

7

Fuel, t

coal 170

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

12 x 1 - 127/24 Whitworth 70pdr MLR

Complement

271

Project history: Wooden-hulled, fully rigged corvette.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Niterói later became a TS for midshipmen.

Niterói

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