Deodoro-class coastal defense ship

The Deodoro class were two French-designed and built coastal defense battleships built for the Brazilian Navy in the late 1890s. Upon their completion, Scientific American called them small vessels of a type "built only for second-rate naval powers," but also noted that it was a "wonder" that "so much armor and armament could be carried" on a ship of its size.[1] Still, they were the only modern armored Brazilian warships from their commissioning until the arrival of two dreadnoughts in 1910.[2]

Class overview
Name: Deodoro class
Builders: Société Nouvelle des Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée, La Seyne, France
Operators:  Brazilian Navy
Preceded by: Javary class
Succeeded by: None
Built: 1898-1899
In service: 1900-1936
Completed: 2
Retired: 2
General characteristics
Type: Coastal defence battleship
Displacement: 3,162 tons standard
Length: 81.5 meters
Beam: 14.4 meters
Draught: 4.19 meters
Propulsion:
Speed: 15 knots (28 km/h)
Complement: 200
Armament:
Armour:
Notes: In 1912 both vessels were modernized with 8 Babcock & Wilcox oil-firing boilers replacing the coal-fired boilers. 400t of oil were carried.

The ships had a low freeboard and long superstructures with single-gun main turrets arranged at each end. Their secondary batteries were also mounted at each end of the superstructure, albeit in casemates in each corner. All used British Armstrong guns.[3]

In 1912, both ships were overhauled with new propulsion and armament.[2] In 1924, Brazil sold Marshal Deodoro to the Mexican Navy.[4] She served for another 14 years, primarily as a training vessel.

Deodoro-class coast-defense ships
  • Deodoro (sold to Mexico and commissioned as the Anáhuac)
  • Floriano (scrapped)

References
  1. "The New Brazilian Armorclad 'Marshal Deodoro'". Scientific American. 82 (12): 184. 24 March 1900.
  2. Gardiner, Robert; Gray, Randal, eds. (1985). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships: 1906–1921. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. p. 407. ISBN 0-87021-907-3. OCLC 12119866.
  3. Gardiner, Robert; Chesneau, Roger; Kolesnik, Eugene, eds. (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships: 1860–1905. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. pp. 403–04. ISBN 0-8317-0302-4. OCLC 4775646.
  4. The New International Year Book. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company. 1925. p. 505.
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