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PARNAÍBA screw sloop (1878)


Ships


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


Technical data


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.