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Friday, 9 December 2011

The wood-built steamships in the Brazilian navy in 1880 according to Lieutenant Edward W. Very

Screw steamships
Frigates Amazonas, 14 guns and Nictheroy, 14 guns.
Corvettes Trajano, 3 guns; Vital de Oliveira, 6 guns, Magé, 8 guns and Belmonte 3 guns.
Gunboats: Araguary, 3 guns, Pedro Affonso, 1 gun; Forte de Coimbra, 1 gun and Ypiranga, 1 gun.
Paddle steamships
Corvette Paraense, 4 guns.
Gunboats: Henrique Diaz, 1 gun, Vidal de Negreiros, 1 gun; Fernandes Vieira, 1gun; Greenhalgh, 2 guns; Taquary, 4 guns; Henrique Martins, 2 guns and Felippe Camarão, 1 gun.
Transports: Madeira, Punes, Leopoldina and Werneck.
Tenders (screw of paddle?): Bonifacio, 2 guns; Braconnot, 1 gun; Apa, 1 gun; Moema, 2 guns; Lamego, 1 gun; Antonio João, 2 guns and Corumba, 2 guns.

Source
E.W. Very. Navies of the World. New York, 1880, p. 12. Digitized by Google.