Brazilian battleship Minas Geraes after its modernization in 1933-1938.
The Minas Geraes battleship was built in 1907-1910 in Great Britain by order of the Brazilian government. It belonged to the class of the same name, sometimes defined in a number of sources as a subclass of the “Dreadnought” type.
The battleship Minas Geraes had a displacement of about 20 thousand tons, a length of 165 m (deck), a width of 25 meters and a draft of 7.6 m. The power plant of the battleship included 18 boilers; its total capacity was 23.5 thousand hp. The maximum speed of the battleship was 21 knots, the cruising range was 10,000 nautical miles at a speed of 10 knots. The crew consisted of 900 sailors.
The armament of the Minas Geraes battleship consisted of 12 305-mm cannons housed in 6 turrets; 22 120mm cannons and 8 37mm anti-aircraft guns.
The Minas Geraes battleship did not take part in military campaigns in World War II. For almost the entire war, the battleship stood at anchor in the Brazilian city of El Salvador as a floating battery.
The Minas Geraes battleship was decommissioned from the Brazilian Navy in 1952, cut into metal in 1954.
Minas Geraes battleship photo source: US Library of Congress.
Photo source: en.wikipedia.org