Brazilian coastal defense ship Floriano

Floriano was a Deodoro-class coastal defense ship built for the Brazilian Navy at the end of the nineteenth century.

Sister ship Deodoro during the Rio de Janeiro visit of the US Great White Fleet in 1908
History
Brazil
Name:	Marshal Floriano
Namesake:	Floriano Peixoto
Ordered:	1890s
Builder:	Société Nouvelle des Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée, La Seyne, France
Laid down:	1896
Launched:	1898
Completed:	1900
Decommissioned:	1924
Fate:	Scrapped
General characteristics
Type:	Coast defense ship
Displacement:	3,162 tons standard[1]
Length:	267 feet 6 inches (82 m)[1]
Beam:	47 feet 3 inches (14 m)[1]
Draught:	13 feet 2 inches (4 m)[1]
Propulsion:	8 Lagrafel d'Allest boilers[1][2] Vertical triple expansion engines[1] 3,400 ihp (2,500 kW)[1] Coal-fired, capacity 236 tonnes (232 long tons; 260 short tons)[1]
Speed:	15.5 knots (29 km/h; 18 mph) maximum[1]
Complement:	200[1]
Armament:	2 × Armstrong 9.2 inches (230 mm)/45 caliber guns in 2 single turrets[1] 4 x 4.7 inches (120 mm)/50 caliber guns[1] 2 x 6 inches (150 mm) howitzers[1] 4 x 6-pounder (57 millimetres (2.2 in)) Hotchkiss guns[1][upper-alpha 1] 2 x 1-pounder (37 millimetres (1.5 in)) autocannon[1] 2 x 18 inches (460 mm) torpedo tubes[1][2]
Armour:	Belt: 5 feet 6 inches (1.68 m) depth, 13.75 inches (349 mm) tapering to 4 inches (100 mm) thick[1] Deck: 1.3 inches (33 mm)[1] Casemate: 2.9 in (74 mm)[2] Turret face: 8.6 in (220 mm)[2]

Footnotes

1. Gardiner et al, Conway's 1860–1905, 407 says the ship carried six of these guns, and does not list the 1-pounders.[2]

Endnotes

1. Brassey, Naval Annual, 1897, 49.
2. Gardiner et al, Conway's 1860–1905, 407.

Bibliography

• Brassey, TA, ed. (1897). The Naval Annual, 1897. Portsmouth: J Griffin and Company. OCLC 5973345.

• "Floriano." Serviço de Documentação da Marinha — Histórico de Navios. Diretoria do Patrimônio Histórico e Documentação da Marinha, Departamento de História Marítima. Accessed 19 August 2017.
• Gardiner, Robert; Chesneau, Roger; Kolesnik, Eugene, eds. (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships: 1860–1905. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-8317-0302-4. OCLC 4775646.
• Gardiner, Robert; Chesneau, Roger, eds. (1980). Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-146-7. OCLC 931766183.
• Gardiner, Robert; Gray, Randal, eds. (1985). Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-245-5. OCLC 833677044.
• Morgan, Zachary R. (2014). Legacy of the Lash: Race and Corporal Punishment in the Brazilian Navy and the Atlantic World. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. ISBN 0253014204. OCLC 952824891.
• "Notes and Queries of Service Afloat and Ashore". Navy & Army Illustrated. 6 (76): 401. 16 July 1898.
• "The New Brazilian Armorclad 'Marshal Deodoro'". Scientific American. 82 (12): 184. 24 March 1900.

Further reading

• "The Cruise of the 'Deodoro' and 'Floriano'". Revista Maritima Brasileira. September–October 1903.
• "The Navies of the Nations: Increasing the Brazilian Navy". Navy & Army Illustrated. 8 (133): 526. 19 August 1899.