Pará-class destroyer

The Pará class was a group of ten destroyers that Yarrow built at Scotstoun, in Glasgow, for the Brazilian Navy between 1908 and 1910. All ten were ordered under the 1907 Naval Programme intended to modernise the Brazilian fleet, and all were named after states of Brazil. The class closely resembled the British River-class destroyers. Navypedia notes that it was meant to operate with the Baia class cruisers. The ships were designed for a crew of 104 and were powered by two shafts, four-cylinder vertical triple expansion engines and two coal-fired Yarrow boilers producing 8,000 shaft horsepower. Every ship exceeded the 27 knot contract speed on trials, the best being Paraná, and the class proved very manoeuvrable, with a turning circle of 375 yards at full speed. The ships served in both World War I and World War II.