BRAZILIAN NAVY
LAUN£Hr.OF A-- DBEADNOUOH& By le!egr*nh.— Preei A«t»cl*Uoa.— Oou)rrt«tit, XRecetved .Januwy'24,,B ■&»»') LONDON, 23rd January. The Brazilian. 27,Bfl04ofiJDfBadnottglit, Bio de Janeiro, has been launched at Ekwickt [The completion of the battleship Rio de Janeiro was delayed owing to modifications being made in tha deeign. Her length is 632 ft. beam 89ft, displacement 27,600 tone. The armament comprises fourteen 12in guns in double tuwete, twenty 6in\gune. ten 3'poundere, and three torpedd tubee. The hull ie $>re» tected by a belt of Bin armour, and by 9ln and 6in armour on the side above the belt. The turret* have 9in 'armour, and the secondary battery ifl protected by 6in armour. There are three armoured decks (2in, l^in, and lin). Tho Rio de Janeiro ie to have a epeed of 22 knote, ,and will carry a crew, of
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 20, 24 January 1913, Page 7
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135BRAZILIAN NAVY Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 20, 24 January 1913, Page 7
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