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BRAZILIAN NAVY (BRAZIL)

TORPEDO SHIPS

Núm.1 torpedo boats (1882)

Names

Núm.1 - 5

Builders

Yarrow, Poplar, UK: Núm.1 - 5

Commissioned

1882: Núm.1 - 5

Losses

None

Transfers

None

Discarding

1910: Núm.1 - 5

  

Displacement normal, t

Núm.1: 40

Núm.2 - 5: 52

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

Núm.1: 30.5

Núm.2 - 5: 33.5

Breadth, m

3.81

Draught, m

1.68

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 VC, 1 cylindrical boiler

Power, h. p.

500

Max speed, kts

Núm.1: 20

Núm.2 - 5: 20.4

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

1 x 1 - 37/20 Hotchkiss, 2 - 356 TT (bow, 4)

Complement

 

Project history: Steel-hulled first class TBs, with two funnels side by side, a ram bow, and a turtle deck forecastle with two fixed TT. Two spare Whitehead torpedoes were carried amidships. No 1 had a shorter hull and was slower than the rest of the class.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

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