History | |
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Empire of Brazil | |
Name | Alagoas |
Namesake | Alagoas |
Ordered | 1866 |
Builder | Arsenal de Marinha da Corte, Rio de Janeiro |
Laid down | 8 December 1866 |
Launched | 29 October 1867 |
Completed | November 1867 |
Fate | Scrapped 1900 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Pará-class monitor |
Displacement | 500 metric tons (490 long tons) |
Length | 39 m (127 ft 11 in) |
Beam | 8.54 m (28 ft 0 in) |
Draft | 1.51–1.54 m (5.0–5.1 ft) (mean) |
Installed power | 180 ihp (130 kW) |
Propulsion | 2 shafts, 2 steam engines, 2 boilers |
Speed | 8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph) |
Complement | 8 officers and 35 men |
Armament | 1 × 70-pounder Whitworth gun |
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The Brazilian monitor Alagoas was the third ship of the Pará-class river monitors built for the Imperial Brazilian Navy during the Paraguayan War in the late 1860s. Alagoas participated in the Passage of Humaitá on 19 February 1868 and provided fire support for the army for the rest of the war. The ship was assigned to the Upper Uruguay (Portuguese: Alto Uruguai) flotilla after the war. Alagoas was transferred to Rio de Janeiro in the 1890s and participated in the Navy Revolt of 1893–94. The ship was scrapped in 1900.