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ALMIRANTE BARROSO protected cruisers (1897)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Almirante Barroso     Armstrong, Newcastle, UK 1895 25.8.1896 4.1897 stricken 1931
Amazonas     Armstrong, Newcastle, UK 1895 4.12.1896 18.3.1898 // --- sold incomplete to USA (PG34 New Orleans)
Almirante Abreu     Armstrong, Newcastle, UK 1897 14.1.1899 25.5.1900 // --- sold incomplete to USA (PG36 Albany)


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

3437

Displacement full, t 
Length, m

100.6 pp 108.0 oa

Breadth, m

13.3

Draught, m

5.15

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VTE, 4 cylindrical boilers

Power, h. p.7500
Max speed, kts

20.2

Fuel, t

coal 2850

Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armour, mm

deck: 31 with 88mm slopes, CT: 102

Armament

6 x 1 - 152/50 Armstrong DD, 4 x 1 - 120/50 Armstrong AA, 10 x 1 - 57/40 Hotchkiss, 4 x 1 - 37/20 Hotchkiss, 3 - 450 TT (1 bow, 2 beam)

Complement

366



Standard scale images


<i>Almirante Barroso </i>1898
Almirante Barroso 1898


Project history

Built under the design similar to Chilean Ministro Senteno, but unlike her Almirante Barrozo had mixed-calibre armament consisted from 152mm and 120mm guns. Other two ships of the same class, Amazonas and Almirante Abreu, also built by Armstrong for Brazil, were sold to the USA even before completion (New Orleans and Albany).

Ship protection

Ship was protected by 31mm deck with 88mm slopes.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.