Brazilian battleship Minas Geraes

Minas Geraes was a dreadnought battleship of the Brazilian Navy and the lead ship of its class. Brazil ordered it from the British builder Armstrong Whitworth, which laid it down at its Elswick yard on 17 April 1907 and launched it at Newcastle on 10 September 1908, and Armstrong handed it over to the Brazilian commission in January 1910. Its design made Brazil the third country, after Britain and the United States, to have a dreadnought under construction, and it set off a naval arms race with Argentina and Chile. In November 1910 the ship was the focal point of the Revolt of the Lash, a mutiny over racist treatment and physical punishment that spread to other ships and ended when the National Congress granted the rebels amnesty. It was modernized in 1921, refitted again from 1939 to 1943, spent the Second World War as the main defence of the port of Salvador and was towed to Italy for scrapping in March 1954.