Summary
Rio Grande do Sul was a Bahia-class cruiser built for the Brazilian Navy in 1909–10.
 Rio Grande do Sul sometime after its mid-1920s modernization, as indicated by the third funnel.[1]
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| History | |
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 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 | |
| Beam | 11.89–11.91 m (39.0–39.1 ft)[3] |
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| Speed | |
| Endurance | |
| Complement | 320[4] to 357[3] |
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| Notes | Specifications given are prior to the 1925–26 modernization. |
Construction and commissioning edit
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]
Gallery edit
Endnotes edit
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Scheina, "Brazil," 405.
- ^ "Rio Grande do Sul 1910".
- ^ a b c d e f Moore ed., Janes Fighting Ships, 300.
- ^ "Cruzador Bahia – C 12/C 2 Archived 26 February 2008 at the Wayback Machine" (in Portuguese), Navios de Guerra Brasileiros. Retrieved 8 November 2012.
- ^ a b Scheina, "Brazil," 403.
- ^ Scheina, Latin America's Wars, 37.
- ^ The Engineer. Vol. 107. 1909. p. 420.
References edit
- 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.