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	Deodoro
Class overview
Name	Deodoro class
Builders	Société Nouvelle des Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée, La Seyne, France
Operators	Brazilian Navy ; Mexican Navy;
Preceded by	Javary class
Succeeded by	None
Built	1898-1899
In service	1900-1936
Completed	2
Retired	2
General characteristics
Type	Coastal defence battleship
Displacement	3,162 tons standard
Length	81.5 meters
Beam	14.4 meters
Draught	4.19 meters
Propulsion	2 shaft triple expansion engines; 8 Lagrafel d'Allest boilers; 3,400 ihp (2,500 kW);
Speed	15 knots (28 km/h)
Complement	200
Armament	2 × Armstrong 9.2-inch, 45 caliber guns in 2 single turrets; 4 × 4.7-inch, .50-caliber guns; 6 × 6-pounder (57 mm) Hotchkiss guns; 2 × 17.7 (450 mm) torpedo tubes mounted on the beam;
Armour	Belt: 350–150 mm; Deck: 45 mm; Casemate: 75 mm (3.0 in); Turret face: 220 mm (8.7 in);
Notes	In 1912 both vessels were modernized with 8 Babcock & Wilcox oil-firing boilers, replacing the coal-fired boilers. 400 t of oil were carried.

The Deodoro class were two French-designed and -built coastal defense battleships built for the Brazilian Navy in the late 1890s. Upon their completion, Scientific American called them small vessels of a type "built only for second-rate naval powers," but also noted that it was a "wonder ... so much armor and armament could be carried" on a ship of its size.^[1] They served the Brazilian Navy as its only modern armored warships until the arrival of two dreadnoughts in 1910.^[2]

About

The ships had a low freeboard and long superstructures with single-gun main turrets arranged at each end. Their secondary batteries were also mounted at each end of the superstructure, albeit in casemates in each corner. All used British Armstrong guns.^[3]

In 1912, both ships were overhauled with new propulsion and armament.^[2] In 1924, Brazil sold Marshal Deodoro to the Mexican Navy.^[4] She served for another 14 years, primarily as a training vessel.^{[citation needed]}

Deodoro-class coast-defense ships

Deodoro (sold to Mexico and commissioned as the Anáhuac)
Floriano (scrapped)

References

^ "The New Brazilian Armorclad 'Marshal Deodoro'". Scientific American. 82 (12): 184. 24 March 1900. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican03241900-184a.
^ ^a ^b Lyon, p. 407
^ Lyon, pp. 403–404
^ The New International Year Book. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company. 1925. p. 505.

Bibliography

Lyon, Hugh (1979). "Brazil". In Chesneau, Roger & Kolesnik, Eugene M. (eds.). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-133-5.
Silverstone, Paul H. (1984). Directory of the World's Capital Ships. New York: Hippocrene Books. ISBN 0-88254-979-0.