Brazilian battleship Minas Geraes
Minas Geraes was a dreadnought battleship of the Brazilian Navy. The ship was laid down in April 1907 as the lead ship of its class. In November 1910, it was the focal point of the Revolt of the Lash. In 1917, Britain’s Royal Navy declined Brazil’s offer of the ship for duty with the Grand Fleet because it was outdated. During the Second World War, the ship was anchored in Salvador as the main defense of the port, as it was too old to play an active part in the war. It was towed to Italy for scrapping in March 1954, and was scrapped there in 1986.
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Minas Geraes was a dreadnought battleship of the Brazilian Navy. The ship was laid down in April 1907 as the lead ship of its class. In November 1910, it was the focal point of the Revolt of the Lash. In 1924, mutineers seized São Paulo and tried to persuade the crews to join them. In 1917, Britain’s Royal Navy declined Brazil’s offer of the ship for duty with the Grand Fleet because it was outdated. During the Second World War, the ship was anchored in Salvador as the main defense of the port, as it was too old to play an active part in the war. It was towed to Italy for scrapping in March 1954, and was scrapped there in 1986. It is one of only two dreadnoughts in the world to have been named after a state, the other being the U.S. Navy’s battleship USS New Jersey. The other is the German-built battleship Nassau-class battleships, which were laid down by the German Navy in 1903 and 1904. The first two ships of the class were completed in December 1906, and the third was completed on January 7, 1907. The three battleships had begun construction just seven months earlier, but were demolished by the end of the year. They were the third and fourth battleships to be built in Brazil, making the country the third to have a Dreadnought under construction. Brazil’s navy fell into obsolescence in the late 1880s, helped along by an 1889 revolution, which deposed Emperor Dom Pedro II, and naval revolts in 1891 and 1893–94.
By the turn of the 20th century it was lagging behind the Chilean and Argentine navies in quality and total tonnage, despite Brazil having nearly three times the population of Argentina. The government of Brazil used some of the extra money from this economic growth to finance a large naval building program in 1904, which authorized the construction of a large number of warships, including three battleship. The ships were to follow Armstrong Whitworth’s Design 439. They would displace 11,800 long tons, have a speed of 19 knots, and be protected by belt armor of 9 inches and deck armor of 1.5 in. Each ship would be armed with twelve 10-inch guns mounted in six twin turrets, similar to the German Nassau. Two of these ships were laid out in Elswick, while the other wascontracted out to Vickers Barrow in Barrow, which premiered the new concept in December 2006. The new dreadnaught concept, which premiered in December 1907, was the first of its kind, and it was completed in January 1910. The battleships were to destroy ten destroyers, two scout cruisers, two destroyers and three submarines, and three destroyers and destroyers, which were demolished in January 1907. They would also destroy ten destroyers and ten submarines and destroyers.
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