Brazil | 250 | 11.5 |1865 | IV 7-inch Whitworth. | | | | IV 68-pdr. smooth-bore. ------------------+---------+-------+-----+------------------------- River Monitors. | | | | Alagoas | 30 | 7.5 |1864 | I 5.8-inch Whitworth. Pará | 30 | 7.5 |1864 | I 5.8-inch ” Rio Grande | 30 | 7.5 |1864 | I 5.8-inch ” Santa Catarina | 30 | 7.5 |1864 | I 7-inch ” Ceara | 30 | 7.5 |1864 | I 7-inch ” Pianhy | 30 | 7.5 |1864 | I 7-inch ” ------------------+---------+-------+-----+------------------------- SOLIMÖES. JAVARI. [Illustration: SOLIMÖES.] Double-turreted, low-freeboard monitors of the American type. No overhang. Twin screws. Guns loaded by hydraulic apparatus outside the turrets. No port stoppers or shutters. Magazines and shell-rooms under the turrets. Pilot-house just abaft the forward turret. Flying deck communicating with the lower deck by a musket-proof passage, and armed with two 9-pdr. Whitworth rifles and two Gatling guns for defence against torpedo-boats. Armor of decreasing thickness at bow and stern. Boats stow on the flying deck without davits, being hoisted in and out by a derrick and the signal-mast. Water-closets and bath-rooms on the flying deck. LIMA BARROS. SILVADO. BAHIA. Double-turreted, high freeboard vessels with a drop rail; three-quarter sail-power. (See Prinz Hendrik, Dutch.) The Silvado is unseaworthy. BRAZIL. [Illustration: BRAZIL.] Armored belt and casemate; ram bow, round stern. The belt encircles the water-line to the height of the upper deck. The casemate springs up sheer from the upper deck with ports in all four faces for all-around fire. There is no direct communication between the forward and after parts of the vessel except through the casemate ports. Single screw, full sail-power. CABRAL. COLOMBO. Similar to the Brazil, but smaller. In these vessels the casemate is divided into two sections by the engine, which projects into it. TAMANDARE. BARROSO. Similar to the Brazil, but smaller and having no fore-and-aft fire at all. THE SIX RIVER MONITORS. Single-turreted, light-draft river monitors, the turrets being square and mounted on turn-tables. BRAZILIAN WOODEN FLEET. (Steam.)