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Brazilian monitor Solimoes may refer to one of several monitors of the Brazilian Navy:

  • Brazilian monitor Solimoes (1875), a French-built monitor that wrecked off Cape Polonio, Uruguay, on 21 May 1892 with the loss of 125
  • Brazilian monitor Solimoes (1913), a British-built Javary-class monitor; refused by the Brazilian Navy because of financial setbacks in the Brazilian economy; purchased by the British Royal Navy after the outbreak of World War I and became HMS Severn; sold for ship breaking in 1921
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