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GUANABARA screw corvette (1879)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Guanabara, later- Paysandú     Arsenal de Marinha, Rio de Janeiro 16.8.1874 18.3.1878 1.2.1879 discarded 1905


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

1914

Displacement full, t 
Length, m

61.0 pp

Breadth, m

12.6

Draught, m

5.41

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 HSE, rectangular boilers

Power, h. p.3000
Max speed, kts

13

Fuel, t

coal 394

Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

9 x 1 - 127/24 Whitworth 70pdr MLR, 2 x 1 - 76/23 9pdr MLR, 1 spar torpedo

Complement

287



Project history

Wooden-hulled, fully rigged corvette. She had a raised forecastle and poop and one funnel.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.