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| History | |
|---|---|
 Empire of Brazil | |
| Name | Rio Grande |
| Namesake | Rio Grande do Sul |
| Ordered | 1866 |
| Builder | Arsenal de Marinha da Corte, Rio de Janeiro |
| Laid down | 8 December 1866 |
| Launched | 17 August 1867 |
| Completed | 3 September 1867 |
| Fate | Scrapped February 1907 |
| 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 Rio Grande was the second ship of the Pará-class river monitors built for the Imperial Brazilian Navy during the Paraguayan War in the late 1860s. Rio Grande 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. Rio Grande was scrapped in 1907.