Minas Gerais

Type:
Battleship
Class:
Builder:
Armstrong Elswick Works Ltd.
Newcastle-on-Tyne, England
Hull Number:
N/A
Ordered:
N/A
Commissioned:
January 6, 1910
Keel Laid:
April 17, 1907
Decommissioned:
September 20, 1953
Launched:
September 10, 1908
Stricken:


N/A
Fate:
Sold Sept. 20, 1953, scrapped in Genoa, Italy in 1954.


Dimensions, machinery and performance

Length:
543'
Engines:
2 triple expansion by Armstrong
Beam:
83'
Boilers:
18 Babcock & Wilcox (coal fired)
Draft:
25'
Shafts:
2
Displacement:
19,200 std. / 21,200 full
SHP:
23,500
Speed:
21 knots
Crew:
850
Range:
3,600 NM @ 19 knots


Main armament
Number Carried
Type
Arrangement
Maximum Range / Ceiling
12
12"/45 (305mm)
6 twin turrets
20,435 yards @ 16° (11.6 miles)
with a 850 lb. armor piercing shell


Builder's Data
Page revised Mar. 17, 2007