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Brazilian battleship Riachuelo
''Riachuelo'' was a Brazilian ironclad battleship completed in 1883. She was named in honour of the Battle of Riachuelo in 1865. Built in the United Kingdom, the ship entered service with the Brazilian Navy in 1883 and remained in service until 1910.
==Design==
''Riachuelo'' was built after the Brazilian Minister of the Navy, Admiral Jose Rodrigues de Lima Duarte, presented a report to the national legislature on the importance of modernising the Brazilian Navy by acquiring new battleships, with the intention to order two from British shipyards. ''Riachuelo'' was constructed by Samuda Brothers in London, being laid down on 31 August 1881, launched on 7 June 1883 and commissioned into the Brazilian Navy on 19 November 1883. The slightly smaller was launched in 1885.
''Riachuelo'' was constructed with a steel hull, and was the first battleship with a compound armour belt, following shortly after the Argentine armoured corvette . Both ''Riachuelo'' and ''Aquidabã'' had an unusual design that became popular in the 1870s and 1880s: the two main gun turrets were placed off the centreline, ''en echelon'', with the forward turret offset to port and the aft turret to starboard. The superstructure ran the full length of the vessel, higher than both turrets, with two funnels and three fully rigged masts. ''Aquidabã'' can be distinguished by its single funnel.
These two modern battleships made the Brazilian Navy the strongest in the western hemisphere. It was argued that either vessel could take on the entire United States Navy, pushing the U.S. to increase its naval spending and build its first battleships. A similar design was followed by and , launched in 1889 and 1892 respectively. By the time they were completed in 1895, developments in battleship design made them obsolete.
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