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Riachuelo 1883

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Riachuelo			Samuda, Poplar, UK	31.8.1881	7.6.1883	19.11.1883	stricken 1910

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	5610
Displacement full, t	6100
Length, m	93.0 pp
Breadth, m	15.9
Draught, m	5.99
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VC, 10 cylindrical boilers
Power, h. p.	7300
Max speed, kts	16.7
Fuel, t	coal 800
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armour, mm	compound; belt: 292 - 178, turrets: 254, CT: 254
Armament	2 x 2 - 234/31 Armstrong C, 6 x 1 - 140/31 70pdr Armstrong BLR, 15 x 1 - 37/30 Armstrong, 5 - 356 TT (4 beam, 1 stern)
Complement	367

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Project history

A steel-hulled, armoured turret ship. She was designed with a full rig but went into service with two pole masts. She was fitted with a ram bow and two funnels set close together. The two hydraulically worked turrets were en échelon, projecting beyond the ship's side to give end-on fire and having a 50° arc of fire on their inboard side. Ship had a complete double bottom and was sheathed in wood and yellow metal.

Ship protection

The belt extended 76m over the machinery and magazines. It was 178mm thick below water, 292mm above water over the engines and boilers and 254mm elsewhere. There was a 51mm steel deck over the belt, a 76mm steel deck over the breastwork and a 76mm proteciive deck fore and aft.

Modernizations

(1893-1895, F C de la Méditerranée, La Seyne, France): masts were replaced by two military masts; - 6 x 1 - 140/31, 15 x 1 - 37/30; + 6 x 1 - 120/32 Armstrong M, 6 x 1 - 47/40 Hotchkiss

1904: military masts were removed, new boilers installed

Naval service

No significant events.