An item referred to the magazine le Yacht reporting that the repairs of the Brazilian battleship Riachuelo at the Compagnie des Forges et Chantiers de la la Mediterranée, Marseille, France was nearly completed. Major repair was replacing the bolts which fixed the doubled wood hull, steel hull and the copper. Most of the bolts were corroded. (1)
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1. Built by Samuda Brothers, London, England on 31 August 1881, launched on 7 June 1883, commissioned on 19 November 1883, modernized at Toulon, France between 1893-1894, decommissioned in 1896, decommissioned in 1910 and sunk under tow underway towards Europe where she was to be broken up
