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Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Araguari			Thornycroft, Woolston, UK		1893	1893	stricken 1910-15
Bento Gonçalves			Thornycroft, Woolston, UK		1893	1893	stricken 1900-05
Marcílio Dias			Thornycroft, Woolston, UK		1893	1893	stricken 1910-15
Iguatemi			Thornycroft, Woolston, UK		1893	1893	stricken 1910-15

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	110
Displacement full, t
Length, m	45.7
Breadth, m	4.42
Draught, m	1.07 mean
No of shafts	1
Machinery	1 VTE, 2 Thornycroft boilers
Power, h. p.	1800
Max speed, kts	25
Fuel, t	coal 20
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	2 x 1 - 47/42 Nordenfelt, 1 - 381 TT (bow), 2 x 1 - 381 TT
Complement	27

Project history

These first class TBs had a steel hull, three masts and two funnels placed fore and aft. There were 12 watertight compartments. One 3pdr gun was on the CT forward, the other being mounted aft. There was one fixed bow TT and two trainable tubes aft. The class were almost identical to the Argentinian Commodoro Py class.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.