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Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Almirante Barroso			Armstrong, Newcastle, UK	1895	25.8.1896	4.1897	stricken 1931
Amazonas			Armstrong, Newcastle, UK	1895	4.12.1896	18.3.1898 // ---	sold incomplete to USA (PG34 New Orleans)
Almirante Abreu			Armstrong, Newcastle, UK	1897	14.1.1899	25.5.1900 // ---	sold incomplete to USA (PG36 Albany)

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	3437
Displacement full, t
Length, m	100.6 pp 108.0 oa
Breadth, m	13.3
Draught, m	5.15
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 4 cylindrical boilers
Power, h. p.	7500
Max speed, kts	20.2
Fuel, t	coal 2850
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armour, mm	deck: 31 with 88mm slopes, CT: 102
Armament	6 x 1 - 152/50 Armstrong DD, 4 x 1 - 120/50 Armstrong AA, 10 x 1 - 57/40 Hotchkiss, 4 x 1 - 37/20 Hotchkiss, 3 - 450 TT (1 bow, 2 beam)
Complement	366

Standard scale images

Project history

Built under the design similar to Chilean Ministro Senteno, but unlike her Almirante Barrozo had mixed-calibre armament consisted from 152mm and 120mm guns. Other two ships of the same class, Amazonas and Almirante Abreu, also built by Armstrong for Brazil, were sold to the USA even before completion (New Orleans and Albany).

Ship protection

Ship was protected by 31mm deck with 88mm slopes.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.