Brazilian monitor Piauí
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For other ships with the same name, see Brazilian ship Piauí.
The Brazilian monitor Piauí was the fourth ship of the Pará-class river monitors built for the Brazilian Navy during the Paraguayan War in the late 1860s. Piauí passed the fortifications at Humaitá in July 1868 and provided fire support for the army for the rest of the war. The ship was assigned to the Mato Grosso Flotilla after the war. Piauí was scrapped in 1893.
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Empire of Brazil | |
Name | Piauí |
Namesake | Piauí |
Ordered | 1866 |
Builder | Arsenal de Marinha da Côrte, Rio de Janeiro |
Laid down | 8 December 1866 |
Launched | 8 January 1868 |
Completed | January 1868 |
Fate | Scrapped 1893 |
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 × 120-pounder Whitworth gun |
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