NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Anáhuac (ex-Marshal Deodoro, ex-Ypiranga)			F C de la Méditerranée, La Seyne, France	1898	18.6.1898	1900 // 1924	discarded 1938

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	3162
Displacement full, t
Length, m	81.5
Breadth, m	14.4
Draught, m	4.19
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 8 Babcock & Wilcox boilers
Power, h. p.	3400
Max speed, kts	15
Fuel, t	oil 440
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armour, mm	Harvey steel; belt: 350 - 150, ends: 100, deck: 45, turrets: 220, casemates: 75, CT: 125
Armament	2 x 1 - 234/45 Armstrong D, 4 x 1 - 120/50 Armstrong AA, 6 x 1 - 57/40 6pdr Hotchkiss, 2 - 450 TT (beam)
Complement	200

Standard scale images

Project history

For strengthening of its small Navy consisting of gunboats and armed vessels, Mexico in 1924 purchased in Brazil coast defence ship Deodoro, commissioned as Anáhuac, however battle value of this hopelessly out-of-date ship was insignificant and in 1938 she was discarded.

Ship protection

Complete 1.68m deep belt was 350mm thick at the top and 150mm at the bottom amidships, tapering to 100mm at the ends, and there was 45mm sloping protective deck.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.