Bahia Class Light Cruiser

Light cruisers (scouts), constructed to be leaders flotilla of destroyers, naval within the plan of 1910. Due to technical limitations of our arsenals originally burned coal, did not have anti-submarine equipment, and even anti-aircraft fire control center, which greatly diminished its effectiveness, but both attended the DNOG, Rio Grande do Sul and supposedly sunk a German submarine with cannon fire. Modified in 1926 on the site of the National Coastal Shipping, ships became "new". Bahia shot down a plane in the revolution of 1932 and lost in combat patrol in 1945, with the death of 337 crew members.

Specifications
Quantity completed: 2 - Bahia and Rio Grande do Sul Length: 122.4 m (total) and 115.8 m (waterline) Beam (width): 11.9 m Silent: 4.1 m Displacement: 3000 tons (3150 tonnes in 1926) Propulsion: Parsons turbines, three axles (18,000 shp), 10 boilers. Curtiss Brown or 3 turbines (22,000 shp), 6 boilers Thornycroft OLE Maximum speed: 25 knots (27 knots in 1926) Autonomy: 2600 km (23.5 knots), 6500 km at 10 knots in 1910 or 4400 km (24 knots), 12,000 km (10 knots) in 1926 Shield: 38 mm (deck) and 76.2 mm (control tower) Primary armament: 10 guns of 120 mm 50 cal. individual repairs Secondary armament: 6 guns (save) 47 mm in 1926: 4 47 mm cannons Anti-aircraft weapons: 4 76.2 mm, individual repairs (1926) Torpedoes: 2 457 mm or 4 individual repairs to 533 mm in repairing double (1926) Crew: 320 or 368 (1926)