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CRUISERS

PRIMEIRO DE MARÇO screw sloop (1881)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Primeiro de Março     Arsenal de Marinha, Rio de Janeiro   7.10.1881 1881 TS 1904, stricken 1905

  

Displacement normal, t

750

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

50.8 pp

Breadth, m

8.43

Draught, m

3.48

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 HC

Power, h. p.

750

Max speed, kts

8.5

Fuel, t

coal 84

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

7 x 1 - 127/24 Whitworth 70pdr MLR

Complement

142

Project history: Barque-rigged and with one funnel, this vessel was a smaller, composite version of Trajano.

Modernizations: 1904: armament consisted of 4 x 1 - 57/40 Hotchkiss, 2 x 1 - 37/20 Hotchkiss

Naval service: She was later reclassified as a second class cruiser and in 1904 reconstructed as TS.

Primeiro de Março

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