Deodoro-class coastal defense ship

	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 x 4.7 inch, 50 caliber guns; 6 x 6-pounder (57mm) Hotchkiss guns; 2 x 17.7 (450mm) torpedo tubes mounted on the beam;
Armour	Belt: 350 - 150mm; Deck: 45mm; 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. 400t 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. They served the Brazilian Navy as its only modern armored warships until the arrival of two dreadnoughts in 1910.

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