Brazilian monitor Santa Catharina
| History | |
|---|---|
| Empire of Brazil | |
| Name | Santa Catharina |
| Namesake | Santa Catarina |
| Ordered | 1866 |
| Builder | Arsenal de Marinha da Côrte, Rio de Janeiro |
| Laid down | 8 December 1866 |
| Launched | 5 May 1868 |
| Completed | June 1868 |
| Fate | Sank 1882 |
| 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 meters (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 Santa Catharina (in modern spelling, Santa Catarina) was the sixth, and last, ship of the Pará-class river monitors built for the Brazilian Navy during the Paraguayan War in the late 1860s. By the time she was completed the war was winding down and she only had one significant engagement against Paraguayan forces in 1869. The ship was assigned to the Mato Grosso Flotilla after the war. Santa Catharina sank at her moorings while under repair in 1882.