Brazilian cruiser Rio Grande do Sul

Rio Grande do Sul was a Bahia-class cruiser built for the Brazilian Navy in 190910.

Rio Grande do Sul sometime after its mid-1920s modernization, as indicated by the third funnel.[1]
History
Brazil
Name: Rio Grande Do Sul
Namesake: The Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul
Builder: Armstrong Whitworth[1]
Yard number: 810[2]
Laid down: 30 August 1907
Launched: 20 April 1909
Commissioned: 14 May 1910
Decommissioned: 1948
Fate: Scrapped
General characteristics
Class and type: Bahia-class cruiser
Displacement: 3,100 tonnes (3,050 long tons; 3,420 short tons)[1][3]
Length:
  • 122.38 m (401.5 ft) oa
  • 115.82 m (380.0 ft) pp[3]
Beam: 11.89–11.91 m (39.0–39.1 ft)[3]
Draft:
  • 3.81 m (12.5 ft) forward[3]
  • 4.75 m (15.6 ft) amidships[3]
  • 4.42 m (14.5 ft) aft[3]
Propulsion:
Speed:
  • 27.016 knots (50.034 km/h; 31.089 mph) trial[1]
  • 25 knots (46 km/h; 29 mph) at full load[3]
Endurance:
  • 1,400 nautical miles (2,600 km; 1,600 mi) at 23.5 knots (43.5 km/h; 27.0 mph)[4]
  • 3,500 nautical miles (6,500 km; 4,000 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)[4]
Complement: 320[4] to 357[3]
Armament:
Armor:
Notes: Specifications given are prior to the 1925–26 modernization.

Construction and commissioning

Rio Grande do Sul was part of a large 1904 naval building program by Brazil.[5][6] Also planned as part of this were the two Minas Geraes-class dreadnoughts, ten Pará-class destroyers, three submarines and a submarine tender.[6][7] With a design that borrowed heavily from the British Adventure-class scout cruisers,[1] Rio Grande do Sul's keel was laid in 1907 in Armstrong Whitworth's Elswick, Newcastle upon Tyne yard.[1] Construction took about a year and a half, and she was launched on 20 April 1909 with Madame A. M. Gomez Ferraz being the sponsor on behalf of Her Excellency Senhora Dr. Carlos Barbosa.[8] As a class, Bahia and Rio Grande do Sul were the fastest cruisers in the world when they were commissioned,[1] and the first in the Brazilian Navy to utilize steam turbines for propulsion.[3]

Endnotes

  1. Scheina, "Brazil," 405.
  2. http://www.tynebuiltships.co.uk/R-Ships/riograndedosul1910.html
  3. "Rio Grande do Sul I," Serviço de Documentação da Marinha – Histórico de Navios.
  4. Moore ed., Janes Fighting Ships, 300.
  5. "Cruzador Bahia – C 12/C 2 Archived 26 February 2008 at the Wayback Machine" (in Portuguese), Navios de Guerra Brasileiros. Retrieved 8 November 2012.
  6. Scheina, "Brazil," 403.
  7. Scheina, Latin America's Wars, 37.
  8. The Engineer. 107. 1909. p. 420.

References

  • Brook, Peter (1999). Warships for Export: Armstrong Warships 1867 – 1927. Gravesend, Kent, UK: World Ship Society. ISBN 0-905617-89-4.
  • Moore, John, ed. Jane's Fighting Ships of World War I. London: Random House [Jane's Publishing Company], 2001 [1919]. ISBN 1-85170-378-0. OCLC 48257502.
  • "Rio Grande do Sul I." Serviço de Documentação da Marinha – Histórico de Navios. Diretoria do Patrimônio Histórico e Documentação da Marinha, Departamento de História Marítima. Accessed 27 January 2015.
  • Scheina, Robert L. "Brazil" in Robert Gardiner and Randal Gray, eds. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships: 1906–1921. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1985. ISBN 0-87021-907-3. OCLC 12119866.
  • Whitley, M.J. Cruisers of World War Two: An International Encyclopedia. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1995. ISBN 1-55750-141-6. OCLC 34089382.
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