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Minas Gerais: South Americas First Dreadnought
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Author:  Karle94 [ March 14th, 2019, 1:44 am ]
Post subject:  Minas Gerais: South Americas First Dreadnought
Just like with the Latorre, this one was also requested by "popular" demand. The Minas Gerais was the first dreadnought built for a South American nation. Brazil ordered three dreadnought from British shipyards. The first two, being the Minas Gerais and the Sao Paulo. The third, the Rio de Janeiro was bought by the Ottoman Empire, and later seized by Britain and commisioned as the HMS Agincourt. The building of the Minas Gerais resulted in a naval arms race in South America, involving Brazil, Argentina and Chile. All nations ordered dreadnoughts, and would soon regret buying them, as the costs of operating them was immense.

I did what I could, with very limited sources available.

Minas Gerais as commisioned in 1910:
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Author:  emperor_andreas [ March 14th, 2019, 8:57 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Minas Geraes: South Americas First Dreadnought
VERY nice work!
Author:  Colombamike [ March 14th, 2019, 7:26 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Minas Geraes: South Americas First Dreadnought
Karle94 wrote: *March 14th, 2019, 1:44 am
with very limited sources available.
1908-1911 refs
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Early 1910s very close details
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1920s refs
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Rare refs for 1939-1948 refs
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I think draw accuratly both ships during 1942-1945 period would be a serious challenge :geek:
Author:  Karle94 [ March 14th, 2019, 8:05 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Minas Geraes: South Americas First Dreadnought
I updated the drawing.
Author:  Colombamike [ March 14th, 2019, 8:07 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Minas Geraes: South Americas First Dreadnought
still not happy with the lightly wrong position of 120mm gun-casemates ;)
Author:  Karle94 [ March 14th, 2019, 8:10 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Minas Geraes: South Americas First Dreadnought
I moved them based on the drawing you provided with above.
Author:  Colombamike [ March 14th, 2019, 8:23 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Minas Geraes: South Americas First Dreadnought
Karle94 wrote: *March 14th, 2019, 8:10 pm
I moved them based on the drawing you provided with above.
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Author:  Karle94 [ March 14th, 2019, 8:38 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Minas Geraes: South Americas First Dreadnought
Better?
Author:  Colombamike [ March 14th, 2019, 9:07 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Minas Geraes: South Americas First Dreadnought
Yep
Author:  Karle94 [ March 14th, 2019, 9:10 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Minas Geraes: South Americas First Dreadnought
Wish I had those line drawings when I first made the drawing. I only had the top down view and the internal one. I did at least find a site with this extremely detailed model of the Minas Geraes. That one helped a lot.
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