Minas Gerais
Rio de Janeiro
An item reported that the Brazilian floating dry dock Alfonso Penna built 3 year earlier by Vickers to dock the Minaes Geraes-class battleships with a length of 167 metres was not long enough for the Rio de Janeiro-class.(1) The dock was to lengthened by Vickers to 218 metres and would have a lifting capacity of 30.000 tons.
Note
1. The Rio de Janeiro was laid down by Armstrong, Newcastle with yard number 792 on 14 September 1911, launched on 22 January 1913, sold to the Ottoman Empire in December 1913, renamed Sultan Osman-I-Evvel, seized by the British government in August 1914 and renamed HMS Agincourt and finally broken up in 1924.
