NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Pará			Arsenal de Marinha, Rio de Janeiro	12.1866	21.5.1867	6.1867	discarded 1884
Rio Grande			Arsenal de Marinha, Rio de Janeiro	12.1866	17.8.1867	9.1867	scrapped 2.1907
Alagoas			Arsenal de Marinha, Rio de Janeiro	12.1866	29.10.1867	11.1867	scrapped 1900
Piauí			Arsenal de Marinha, Rio de Janeiro	12.1866	8.1.1868	1.1868	scrapped 1893
Ceará			Arsenal de Marinha, Rio de Janeiro	12.1866	22.3.1868	4.1868	scrapped 1884
Santa Catharina			Arsenal de Marinha, Rio de Janeiro	12.1866	5.5.1868	6.1868	sunk 1882

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	490
Displacement full, t
Length, m	39.0
Breadth, m	8.54
Draught, m	1.51 - 1.54
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 HDA, 2 rectangular boilers
Power, h. p.	180
Max speed, kts	8
Fuel, t	coal
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armour, mm	iron; belt: 102 - 51, turret: 152 - 76, deck: 13
Armament	1 x 1 - 163/23 Whitworth 120pdr MLR or 1 x 1 - 127/24 Whitworth 70pdr MLR
Complement	43

Standard scale images

Project history

Small wooden-hulled river monitors built during Paraguayan war.

Ship protection

Complete wrought iron belt was 0.9m high and was 102mm amidships, tapered to 76-51mm at ship ends. Curved upper deck was 13mm thick.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Santa Catharina foundered at her moorings in 1882 due to the poor hull condition while she was under repair.