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Maranhão 1923

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Alexandrino Dealenca (ex-Porpoise), 12.1922- Marnhão			Thornycroft, Woolston, UK	2/1912	7.7.1913	1.1914 // 12.1922	stricken 9.1946

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	1072
Displacement full, t	1300
Length, m	81.5
Breadth, m	8.20
Draught, m	2.90
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 Parsons steam turbines, 4 Yarrow boilers
Power, h. p.	24500
Max speed, kts	29
Fuel, t	oil 258
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	3 x 1 - 102/40 BL Mk VIII, 2 x 1 - 47/50 3pdr Vickers, 2 x 2 - 450 TT
Complement	73

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Project history

Former British destroyer Porpoise of K class, participated in the WWI. 23.2.1920 she was sold to Brazil and commissioned as Alexandrino Dealenca, 9.12.1922 she was accepted by Brazilian crew and renamed Maranhao. By transfer 2 single 533mm TTs were replaced on 2 twin 450mm accepted in Brazilian Navy.

Modernizations

1942-1945: - 2 x 1 - 47/50; + 3 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 4, DC, presumably radar, sonar

Naval service

No significant events.