Brazilian monitor Ceará
| History | |
|---|---|
| Empire of Brazil | |
| Name | Ceará |
| Namesake | Ceará |
| Ordered | 1866 |
| Builder | Arsenal de Marinha da Côrte, Rio de Janeiro |
| Laid down | 8 December 1866 |
| Launched | 22 March 1868 |
| Completed | April 1868 |
| Fate | Scrapped 1884 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Pará-class monitor |
| Displacement | 500 metric tons (490 long tons) |
| Length | 39 m (127 ft 11 in) |
| Beam | 8.54 m (28 ft 0 in) |
| Draft | 1.51–1.54 m (4 ft 11 in – 5 ft 1 in) (mean) |
| Installed power | 180 ihp (130 kW) |
| Propulsion | 2 shafts, 2 steam engines, 2 boilers |
| Speed | 8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph) |
| Complement | 8 officers and 35 men |
| Armament | 1 × 120-pounder Whitworth gun |
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The Brazilian monitor Ceará was the fifth ship of the Pará-class river monitors built for the Brazilian Navy during the Paraguayan War in the late 1860s. Ceará arrived in Paraguay in mid-1868 and provided fire support for the army for the rest of the war. The ship was assigned to the Mato Grosso Flotilla after the war. Ceará was scrapped in 1884.