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    Two Minas Geraes-class battleships were built for the Brazilian Navy in the early twentieth century. Named Minas Geraes and São Paulo, these "dreadnought"...
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    Minas Geraes, spelled Minas Gerais in some sources, was a dreadnought battleship of the Brazilian Navy. Named in honor of the state of Minas Gerais, the...
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    South American dreadnought race and a counter to Brazil's two Minas Geraes-class battleships. In 1904, Brazil scrapped a previous naval building program...
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    São Paulo was a dreadnought battleship of the Brazilian Navy. It was the second of two ships in the Minas Geraes class, and was named after the state and...
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    extensive quotation from this article appears in [[Minas Geraes-class battleship|Minas Geraes-class battleship]]. "Memoria Da Imigração Japonesa No Brasil"...
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    remained over the arrangement of the main battery. The two Minas Geraes-class battleships being built for Brazil mounted the same number of guns, but...
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    Janeiro, then under construction for the Brazilian Navy, along with Minas Geraes, which had been commissioned into the Brazilian fleet in 1910. These...
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    naval building plan. The centerpiece of the new navy would be two Minas Geraes-class dreadnoughts built by the United Kingdom. The order for these powerful...
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    surviving battleship, Nagato to the United States following World War II.  Brazilian Navy: decommissioned its last battleship Minas Geraes in 1952.  Italian...
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    behind the United Kingdom and Germany, but just ahead of Brazil's Minas Geraes class—and its shakedown cruise lasted until 7 June. South Carolina's trials...
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  • List of battlecruisers List of battleships of World War I List of battleships of World War II List of battleship classes Gardiner, Robert; Chesneau, Roger;...
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  • more ships than the other two nations, including the two battleships of the Minas Geraes class, the possible commissioning of Almirante Latorre and Almirante...
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    Class Boat Displacement Type Origin Note Photo Minas Geraes-class battleship Minas Geraes São Paulo 20,900 tons Dreadnought battleship  United Kingdom...
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  • Hershey Park opens in Hershey, Pennsylvania. April 17 The first Minas Geraes-class battleship is laid down for Brazil, by Armstrong Whitworth on the River...
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    (Tupi class) Humaitá (Riachuelo class) Atlântico Rademaker (Type 22 class) União (Niterói class) Barroso (Inhaúma class) Araguari (Amazonas class) Macaé...
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  • scale of a cruiser) and therefore faster than a battleship but more vulnerable to damage. battleship A type of large, heavily armored warship of the second...
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    their purchase. In March 1907, they signed a contract for three Minas Geraes-class battleships. Two ships would be constructed immediately by the British companies...
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    South American dreadnought race (category Battleships)
    Brazilian Battleship 'Minas Geraes'." Journal of the United States Artillery 33, no. 2 (1910): 179–88. OCLC 1962282. "The Brazilian Battleship 'Minas Geraes'."...
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  • Brazilian battleship Rio de Janeiro may refer to: A cancelled battleship of the Minas Geraes class contracted to Brazil. A battleship contracted to Brazil...
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    battery than any other battleship afloat at the time (twelve 12-inch/45 calibre guns). Two were completed for Brazil: Minas Geraes was laid down on by Armstrong...
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  • 8 × 13" 50 cal M1931 9,880 lb (4.48 t) 45,600 41.7 2 Brazil Minas Geraes-class battleship 2 10 (of 12) × 12" 45 cal EOC 8,500 lb (3.9 t) 18,850 17.2 3...
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  • the advent of the First World War. Brazil's first two dreadnoughts, Minas Geraes and São Paulo, would be delivered in 1910. The third dreadnought was...
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  • class Marechal Deodoro (1898) – To Mexico 1924, renamed Anahuac Marechal Floriano (1899) – Discarded, broken up 1936 Minas Geraes class Minas Geraes (1910)...
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    the Minas Geraes-class battleships completed by itself and Vickers in 1910 for Brazil. When World War I began, Elswick were completing the battleship Sultân...
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    Afonso Pena (category Governors of Minas Gerais)
    with Argentina reached a peak due to the acquisition of the Minas Geraes-class battleships, which kickstarted the South American dreadnought race, and...
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    This is a list of battleships of the Second World War. All displacements are at standard load, in metric tonnes, so as to avoid confusion over their relative...
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    dreadnoughts. These ships, commissioned as the Minas Geraes class, were designed to carry the heaviest battleship armament in the world at the time. They came...
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  • the Brazilian Minas Geraes-class battleships and Rio de Janeiro (later HMS Agincourt), and the Chilean Almirante Latorre-class battleships. He was born...
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    prioritized the incorporation of large steel ships, such as the Minas Geraes-class battleships. With the initiative of several officers in the internal development...
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    at the Royal Navy Submarine Museum in Gosport, United Kingdom Japanese battleship Mikasa – Museum ship in Yokosuka, Japan EML Lembit – Preserved at the...
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