Brasil in Guanabara Bay before its departure to Paraguay |
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| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Brasil class |
| Operators: | Brazilian Navy |
| Preceded by: | None |
| Succeeded by: | Barroso |
| Built: | 1864–1865 |
| In service: | 1865–1890 |
| Completed: | 1 |
| Scrapped: | 1 |
| Career (Empire of Brazil) | |
| Name: | Brasil |
| Namesake: | Brazil |
| Ordered: | 5 January 1864 |
| Builder: | Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée, La Seyne-sur-Mer |
| Laid down: | 1864 |
| Launched: | 23 December 1864 |
| Commissioned: | 2 March 1865 |
| Fate: | Converted into a floating battery 1890 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Brasil-class central battery ironclad |
| Displacement: | 1,518 metric tons (1,494 long tons) |
| Length: | 63.41 m (208 ft 0 in) |
| Beam: | 10.75 m (35 ft 3 in) |
| Draft: | 3.81 m (12.5 ft) |
| Installed power: | 250 nominal horsepower |
| Propulsion: | 1 shaft, 1 steam engine, 2 boilers |
| Speed: | 10.5 knots (19.4 km/h; 12.1 mph) |
| Armament: | 4 × 70-pdr Whitworth guns 4 × 68-pounder guns |
| Armor: | Belt: 90–114 mm (3.5–4.5 in) Casemate: 102 mm (4.0 in) |
The Brazilian ironclad Brasil was an armored corvette built in France for the Brazilian Navy in the mid-1860s.
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