It had a length of 81.5m, a beam of 14.4m and a draught of 4.19m, a displacement of 3,162tons. Saw little to no action in the mexican service, and eventually got scrapped in 1938. It was obviously pretty obsolete at the time, It was even considered obselete 6 years after it's completion when the Dreadnought Battleships became a thing. From the native language nahuatl ā meaning water and nāhuac meaning close to, roughly translating to Civilization close to the river) In 1912 the armament and propulsion got overhauled in Rio de Janeiro.Īfter it was sold to the Mexican navy it got renamed as ARM Anahuac (Namesake from the region Cem Anahuac. interesting service record, it would shell down a rebellion on the Praia Vermelha Military Academy, it'd also take part in different mutinies, most of them on a racial nature. The Marechal Deodoro was completed in 1900 and during it's service on the Brasilian navy had an. The ship is pretty much a Jaureguiberry design, which dates back to 1890's. In april of 1924, the mexican navy bought the brasilian Coastal Defense Battleship Marechal Deodoro, the lead ship of the two in the Deodoro class. I've been studying mexican naval history for the past year or so, came across some interesting adquisitions that the navy did on the early XX century up to the 1950's.
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