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Aquidabã 1887

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Aquidabã, 6.1894- Dezesseis de Abril, 7.1894- Vinte e Quatro de Maio, 1900- Aquidabã			Samuda, Poplar, UK	18.6.1883	17.1.1885	1887	explosion 22.1.1906

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	4921
Displacement full, t
Length, m	85.3
Breadth, m	15.9
Draught, m	5.59
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 IC, 8 cylindrical boilers
Power, h. p.	6500
Max speed, kts	15.8
Fuel, t	coal 800
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armour, mm	compound; belt: 292 - 178, turrets: 254, CT: 254
Armament	2 x 2 - 234/31 Armstrong G, 4 x 1 - 140/31 70pdr Armstrong BLR, 13 x 1 - 37/30 Armstrong, 5 - 356 TT (4 beam, 1 stern)
Complement	277

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Project history

This steel-hulled armoured turret ship was a shorter and lighter-draught version of Riachuelo, with identical main armament and armour. Her appearance was similar except that she only had one funnel.

Ship protection

The belt protected 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

(1897-1898, Vulcan, Stettin, Germany): masts were replaced by two military masts; - 4 x 1 - 140/31, 13 x 1 - 37/30; + 4 x 1 - 120/40 Armstrong P, 10 x 1 - 57/42 Nordenfelt

1904: military masts were removed; - 2 - 356 TT

Naval service

Aquidabã was torpedoed and sunk 16.4.94 off Fortress of Anhatomirim (Santa Catarina) by torpedo gunboat Gustavo Sampaio but she was refloated in June 1894 and renamed. In 1900 she was renamed Aquidabã again. 21.1.1906, when she was moored at Jacuacanga Bay near Rio de Janeiro, her powder magazines blew up and Aquidabã sank in 3 minutes with 212 lives lost.