Brazilian training ship Brasil
 NE Brasil
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| History | |
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 Brazil | |
| Name | Brasil |
| Namesake | Brasil |
| Ordered | June 1981 |
| Builder | Arsenal de Marinha do Rio de Janeiro |
| Cost | US$ 124.2 millions |
| Launched | 2 September 1983 |
| Christened | 18 September 1981 |
| Commissioned | 21 August 1986 |
| Homeport | Rio de Janeiro |
| Identification |
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| Status | Active |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Niterói-class frigate |
| Displacement | 3,200 tons standard, 3,800 tons full load |
| Length | 129.2 m (423 ft 11 in) |
| Beam | 13.5 m (44 ft 3 in) |
| Draught | 5.5 m (18 ft 1 in) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph) (22 kn (41 km/h; 25 mph) diesels only) |
| Range | 5,300 nmi (9,800 km; 6,100 mi) at 17 kn (31 km/h; 20 mph) |
| Endurance | 45 days |
| Complement | 442 |
| Armament |
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| Aircraft carried | 1 Westland Super Lynx Mk.21A (locally designated as AH-11A) or 1 Eurocopter AS-350/355 Squirrel (locally assembled by Helibrás as UH-12/UH-13 'Esquilo') |
| Aviation facilities | Helipad and hangar |
NE Brasil (U-27) is a training ship of the Brazilian Navy ordered in June 1981 at Rio de Janeiro Marine Arsenal Yard, with a budget of US$124.2 million, as a modified version of the Niteroi class of frigates without weapons or sensors. The ship carries 442 midshipmen (officers in training) from the Brazilian Naval and Merchant Marine Academies.[1]
History
[edit]The ship was one of the last to be built at the Arsenal docks in Rio de Janeiro with steel plates from CSN or Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional, during the last Military Presidency of Brazil under President João Baptista de Oliveira Figueiredo. After 1985 no military ships were built at the Arsenal and the dry docks remained empty.
Brasil regularly makes a worldwide trip every two years, starting in Rio de Janeiro and visiting ports such as Lisbon, Hamburg and London. At Hamburg it holds the record for the naval ship most often visiting the city, with 28 calls at least. In London, it usually moors alongside HMS Belfast, passing under Tower Bridge. The round trip is during the autumn in Europe, mainly at end of September and middle of October, each time with new students or cadets on board. Most of time it held an Open Ship to local visitors and even souvenirs like a coin, caps, shirt and catalogue. Since the Government of President Jair Bolsonaro, the souvenirs were cancelled, and due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the visits as well.[2][3]
References
[edit]- ^ Jane's Fighting Ships. London: Jane's Publishing Company Limited. 1983. p. 56.
- ^ "U27 Brasil" (in German). 2019-10-09.
- ^ "Hamburger Hafen: Besonderes Schiff kommt heute – mit Rekord". 29 September 2021.
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