Histories of ships of the Brazilian Navy. The Brazilian Navy after its independence form Portugal was small. In 1860 the fleet consisted on 7 screw sloops and 8 paddle steamers and a sailing fleet of 6 frigates and corvettes and 14 smaller vessels. During the war against Paraguay between 1865 and 1870 a number of ironclads (were purchased from Britain and France (Brasil, Tamandare Lima Barros, Bahia, Silvado, Mariz E Barros, Herval, Cabral, Colombo, ). After the rebellion of 1893 very little naval building was done until the 1905 naval programme.
Histories of ships of the Brazilian Navy.