Minas Gerais |
Type: |
Battleship |
Class: |
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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 |
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Crew: |
850 |
Range: |
3,600 NM @ 19 knots |
Main armament |
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Number Carried
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Type
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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 |
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Page revised Mar. 17, 2007 |