was a built for the Brazilian Navy in 1909–10.
Construction and commissioning
was part of a large 1904 naval building program by Brazil."Cruzador Bahia – C 12/C 2 " , Navios de Guerra Brasileiros. Retrieved 8 November 2012.Scheina, "Brazil," 403. Also planned as part of this were the two dreadnoughts, ten destroyers, three submarines and a submarine tender.Scheina, Latin America's Wars, 37. With a design that borrowed heavily from the British scout cruisers,Scheina, "Brazil," 405. s keel was laid in 1907 in Armstrong Whitworth's Elswick, Newcastle upon Tyne yard. Construction took about a year and a half, and she was launched on 20 April 1909 with Madame A. M. Gomez Ferraz being the sponsor on behalf of Her Excellency Senhora Dr. Carlos Barbosa. As a class, Bahia and were the fastest cruisers in the world when they were commissioned, and the first in the Brazilian Navy to utilize steam turbines for propulsion.
Gallery
See also
List of historical ships of the Brazilian Navy
Endnotes
References
Moore, John, ed. Jane's Fighting Ships of World War I. London: Random House [Jane's Publishing Company], 2001 . . . "Rio Grande do Sul I." Serviço de Documentação da Marinha – Histórico de Navios. Diretoria do Patrimônio Histórico e Documentação da Marinha, Departamento de História Marítima. Accessed 27 January 2015. Scheina, Robert L. "Brazil" in Robert Gardiner and Randal Gray, eds. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1985. . .