Brazilian coastal defense ship Floriano

	Floriano, c. 1899
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
Length	267 feet 6 inches (82 m)
Beam	47 feet 3 inches (14 m)
Draught	13 feet 2 inches (4 m)
Propulsion	8 Lagrafel d'Allest boilers; Vertical triple expansion engines; 3,400 ihp (2,500 kW); Coal-fired, capacity 236 tonnes (232 long tons; 260 short tons);
Speed	15.5 knots (29 km/h; 18 mph) maximum
Complement	200
Armament	2 × Armstrong 9.2 inches (230 mm)/45 caliber guns in 2 single turrets; 4 × 4.7 inches (120 mm)/50 caliber guns; 2 × 6 inches (150 mm) howitzers; 4 × 6-pounder (57 millimetres (2.2 in)) Hotchkiss guns; 2 × 1-pounder (37 millimetres (1.5 in)) autocannon; 2 × 18 inches (460 mm) torpedo tubes;
Armour	Belt: 5 feet 6 inches (1.68 m) depth, 13.75 inches (349 mm) tapering to 4 inches (100 mm) thick; Deck: 1.3 inches (33 mm); Casemate: 2.9 in (74 mm); Turret face: 8.6 in (220 mm);

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

Footnotes

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

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r Brassey, Naval Annual, 1897, 49.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Gardiner et al, Conway's 1860–1905, 407.

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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.
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"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. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican03241900-184a.

v t e Deodoro-class coastal defense ships
Deodoro Floriano
Preceded by: Riachuelo – Aquidabã Followed by: Minas Geraes-class battleship
Ships of the Brazilian Navy