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CONVERTED MERCHANT VESSELS
minesweepers of WWI and inter-war period


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Tenente Lahmeyer (future Itacurussa) 1935

100 - 1000 t displacement/ BRT tonnage vessels


I2 Itajai (1908, 125, 1938 - 9.1946); I3 Itacurussa (1913, 280, 1939 - 12.1959); I4 Iguape (1907, 207, 10.1938 - 9.1946); Heitor Perdigão (1921, 500, 1926 - 1946); Muniz Freire (1921, 500, 1926 - 1946)

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<i>Heitor Perdigão </i>1937
Heitor Perdigão 1937
<i>Tenente Lahmeyer (future Itacurussa) </i>1935
Tenente Lahmeyer (future Itacurussa) 1935


Project history

Former trawlers and tugs. Two last ships were former ocean tugs. Since September, 1926 they were re-classified as mine avizos and transferred to mine flotilla.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.