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GUSTAVO SAMPAIO torpedo gunboat (1893)

Gustavo Sampaio 1914

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Gustavo Sampaio     Armstrong, Elswick, UK 1891 1893 10.1893 disarmed 5.1912

  

Displacement normal, t

480

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

60.0 pp

Breadth, m

6.10

Draught, m

2.59 mean

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VTE

Power, h. p.

2000

Max speed, kts

18

Fuel, t

coal 150

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armour, mm

steel; CT: 19

Armament

2 x 1 - 89/40 Armstrong 20pdr QF, 4 x 1 - 47/40 Hotchkiss, 1 - 356 TT (bow), 2 x 1 - 356 TT

Complement

60

Project history: This steel-hulled vessel had a raised forecastle, one funnel and two masts. The 20pdr QF were mounted fore and aft and there was a fixed bow TT and two trainable tubes, one on each side abaft the break of the forecastle. She was wood-sheathed. Built by Armstrong as the stock ship Aurora, she was renamed Gustavo Sampaio on purchase by Brazil on 8.10.1893.

Ship protection: Only CT had 19mm sides.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

Gustavo Sampaio 1900

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