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PARNAÍBA screw sloop (1878)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Parnaíba     Arsenal de Marinha, Rio de Janeiro   18.3.1878 1878 stricken 1905

  

Displacement normal, t

742

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

52.5 pp

Breadth, m

8.92

Draught, m

3.48

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 HSE

Power, h. p.

900

Max speed, kts

11.5

Fuel, t

coal 130

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

6 x 1 - 127/24 Whitworth 70pdr MLR

Complement

149

Project history: Wooden-hulled, barque-rigged sloop with one funnel.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: She was later classed as a second class cruiser.

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