History
Background
The origin of the weapon goes back to the Portuguese Navy , which has existed since the 12th century. The transfer of the headquarters of the Kingdom of Portugal , to Brazil in 1808, also transferred a large part of the structure, personnel and ships of the Portuguese Navy. These would be the core of the Navy of Brazil.See also: Military of the Empire of Brazil and South American dreadnought race . Before Pedro I of Brazil declared independence from Portugal in September 1822, he had already assembled a navy that then participated in the Brazilian Declaration of Independence , which had begun a year earlier. The navy would later fight in the Cisplatine War , the River Plate conflicts , the Paraguayan War , both World War I and World War II , as well as in the sporadic rebellions that would mark Brazil's history.
After the losses of the 1893 naval rebellion , there was a hiatus in the development of the navy until 1905, when Brazil acquired two of the most powerful and advanced dreadnoughts of the day. These vessels, Minas Geraes and São Paulo , were the last battleships of the Brazilian Navy. Brazil also bought two cruisers in this period, Bahia and Rio Grande do Sul .
The Brazilian Navy served in both World War I and World War II, engaging in anti-submarine warfare in the two Battles of Atlantic.
The Colossus class aircraft carrier Minas Gerais served the Navy until its decommission in 2001.
The National Army (as the Brazilian Navy was called during the monarchy) came up with the Independence of the country. It consisted almost entirely of vessels, personnel, organizations and doctrines from the transmigration of the Royal Family of Portugal in 1808. Its members were a few native Brazilians (then almost all banned from serving), Portuguese who chose to join the cause of separation (and hence were naturalized Brazilian) and foreigners from various countries engaged as mercenaries. Also recovered were several bodies created by John VI of Portugal, such as the Department of the Navy, the Headquarters of the Quartermaster and Accounting, the Navy , the Royal Academy of Marine Guard, the Hospital, the Auditor, the Supreme Military Council, the Gunpowder Factory, the Cutting of Wood and others. As the first Minister of Marine was appointed Captain of the Brazilian born-and-Ocean War Luís Moreira da Cunha (future Vicomte de Cabo Frio) in October 28 in 1822 . In the absence of military experts who were born in Brazil, the committee composed by Luis Moreira Cunha and several officers tried to contact the Portuguese military serving in Brazil for them to join the newly created Brazilian Empire. Hundreds have accepted, and those who refused were given, together with their families, transportation to return to Portugal. However, fearful of possible consequences for sending combat ships manned mostly by Portuguese forces against the Lusitania, the committee recruited several mercenaries, indigenous if slaves . To control the Brazilian Navy has chosen the experienced Lord Thomas Alexander Cochrane, British by birth, who received the title of "First Admiral". The fleet consisted of only a ship , four frigates , two corvettes , five brigs , six schooners and twenty small boats, a total of thirty-eight warships. The Minister of Finance Martim Francisco Ribeiro de Andrada created a national subscription to raise funds and so the fleet retrofit, and Brazil were all sent contributions. Even the Emperor Pedro I of Brazil acquired at his own expense a merchant brig that was renamed "Caboclo" and donated to the State.
The National Army headed then to the Bahia , where he attacked a convoy of Portuguese fleet consisting of more than seventy ships that went up to Maranhão . Only thirteen were able to achieve London after being prevented from reaching the northern coast of Brazil. The other ships were sunk or captured or incorporated and the Brazilian Navy. The British John Pascoe Grenfell , who commanded the brig Don Miguel , obtained the surrender of Belem do Para . Having overcome the opposition Lusitanian provinces of Bahia, Maranhão and Pará , the Brazilian fleet departed for the Cisplatin , where he achieved more success in this endeavor. Admiral Cochrane, released after a third of Brazil, received the Emperor Dom Pedro I himself the decoration of the Order of the Southern Cross and the noble title of Marquess of Maranhão . The participation in the conflict against Portugal was vital:
After the suppression of the 1824 revolt of the Confederation of the Equator and before the Cisplatine War (1825–1828), the Navy had expanded and strengthened. The thirty-eight vessels of 1822 became ninety-six modern warships of various types, with about 690 guns. The Brazilian fleet blocked the mouth of the Río de la Plata , making it impossible to connect the United Provinces of the rebels and cisplatin with the rest of the world. Several skirmishes (Battle of Juncal) occurred between ships from Brazil and Buenos Aires until the defeat of the enemy squadron, consisting of two corvettes, five brigs and a schooner, across Battle of Monte Santiago in 1827. To abdicate in 1831, Dom Pedro I left a powerful Armada comprising: two ships, ten frigates, twenty corvettes, brigs, schooners seventeen, two gunboats, twelve bombers, three steam boats, fourteen boats of various transport and large, totaling at least eighty warships in peacetime.With Independence, the Navy has become even more important because even though we had the good fortune of having a monarch as Pedro I, Brazil would have shattered a number of republics – as happened in Spanish America – if not his action was integrated. Certainly there are other factors, but that she was blocked, chased and won the Portuguese Police, allowing the union with the Rio de Janeiro".
The long reign of fifty-eight years of Dom Pedro II would represent the end of the growth and flourishing of the National Armed Forces (and even then during the Republican period). was reorganized to the Ministry of the Navy, the Naval Arsenal and Chain, and also created the Imperial Marines Corps , formed by volunteers. This period was definitely adopted the steamship, with Brazil Squad rapidly modernized, acquiring and building vessels abroad in the other country, and also replacing the old smooth-bore cannons for new, rifled, with greater range and accuracy. Improvements were also made in arsenals and naval bases, being equipped with new workshops. warships were built in the arsenals of the Navy in Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, Recife, Santos, Niterói and Pelotas. The Army acted in all the riots that occurred in Regency as Cabanagem , the Tatters , the Sabinada, among others. The Navy conducted the blockade of the provinces where the riots occurred and did most of the troop transports Imperial Army, from one region to another country, keeping them municiadas, supplied and equipped,.
In 1840, when Emperor Dom Pedro II was declared of age and assumed his constitutional prerogatives, the Navy had ninety warships: six frigates , seven corvettes, two brigs, eight brigs , sixteen gunboats , twelve schooners , seven patachos, six Steamboats , three plows, two luggers , two cutters and thirteen armed lanchões. New modernization occurred, this time, reorganizing the State Department, the Accounting Department of the Navy, the Headquarters and the Marine Academy. New vessels were purchased and the port authorities have been retooled. The Corps of Imperial Marines was finally settled and did the Marine Corps (instead of the Artillery Corps of the Navy that had been dissolved) as well as services to the disabled and also schools for the training of sailors and craftsmen.
The conflicts in La Plata region does not cease after the war in 1825, and then the Brazil was forced to send a fleet of seventeen warships (a nau , ten corvettes, and six steamships) headed by veteran Independence John Pascoe Grenfell to address the United Provinces of La Plata River in 1851. The Brazilian fleet managed to overcome the strong Argentine Toneleros under heavy shelling and made the transport of troops to the theater of operations ashore. More than a decade later, the navy was again modernized, and his old sailing ships gave way to steam forty ships with over 250 guns. Its officers consisted of no more foreigners, but only Brazilians (who were recruits at the time of the War of Independence). From his frame of military , left men like Joaquim Marques Lisboa Marquis de Tamandaré , da Silva Francisco Manuel Barroso Baron Amazon , Joaquim José Inácio de Barros Viscount Inhaúma , Luís Filipe de Saldanha da Gama , among others, who were all loyal to the monarchy.
In 1864 collaborated with the intervention in Uruguay and shortly thereafter the Paraguayan War. In this conflict, twenty battleships and six river monitors were added to the fleet register, in addition to its commanders, and crews (and the vessels that were already in the theater of war) were better trained. These actions allowed the Navy to obtain a great victory in the Battle of Riachuelo against Paraguayan forces. Brazilian shipbuilders such as Napoleon Level Trajano de Carvalho and John Candido Brazil designed new plans for warships of the Navy that enabled the naval register to maintain competitiveness with other nations. With the end of the Paraguay War, the Brazilian government sought to repair the damaged vessels and retrofit the fleet, enabling Brazil to have the fourth most powerful navy world of that time.
During the 1870s, the Brazilian Empire sought to further strengthen its fleet in light of the a possibility of armed conflict with Argentina. Thus, the Navy acquired a gunboat and a corvette in 1873 as well as a battleship and a monitor in 1874, followed by two more cruisers and a monitor. The beginning of the 1880 saw the continued growth of the Navy as the Naval Arsenals of Rio de Janeiro , Bahia , Pernambuco Pará and Mato Grosso continued to build dozens of warships. Four destroyers were purchased, they created the Torpedo Training School for squares and took up a workshop for manufacturing and repair of electrical appliances and torpedoes in the Navy Arsenal January on November 30 of 1883. The same shipyard built the steam gunboats: Initiator, Carioca, Camocim, and Cabedelo Marajo beyond patach Apprentice, all iron and steel hulls without using wood in their construction, marking the first ship of that kind built in Brazil. However, the apex of the Imperial Navy was the incorporation of the battleships Riachuelo and Aquidabã, both equipped with torpedo tubes, in 1884 and 1885, respectively. Acquiring these vessels allowed Brazil to remain "among the naval powers of the universe." These two vessels epoch, because:
In the last case of the monarchy the Secretary of the Navy, Admiral José da Costa Azevedo, Baron Ladário, left a large project that was about to be made for the reorganization of Navy personnel and institutions. In 1889, the Naval Battalion had 454 squares and the Imperial Marines, 3,218 squares. coup that brought the Republic in Brazil was not well accepted by the military of the Imperial Navy. Sailors were driven shot to give the Emperor alive when he was imprisoned in the Imperial Palace. The Marquis de Tamandaré begged his friend Dom Pedro II, who allowed it quell the coup, but denied this possibility. The old sailor and loyal, as to the nearing ninety years of age, was arrested by order of dictator Floriano Peixoto on charges of funding the monarchist military during the Federalist Revolution. " The Baron of Ladario remained in contact with the Imperial Family in exile seeking ways to restore the ousted regime, but was relegated ostracized by the Republican government. Admiral Saldanha da Gama led the Armed Revolt in order to resurrect the Empire and joined forces with other military royalists who were on the Rio Grande do Sul . All attempts were restorative crushed by the Republican government. Monarchist officers of high rank were arrested or shot or banned without due process of law, and his subordinates were subjected to "cruel." This thorough purge in the tables of the Navy explains how it was possible an institution traditionally loyal The monarchy to have suddenly become Republican.We 'Europe bow to Brazil,' because the Riachuelo, to have the building completed in England in 1884, was regarded by the technicians of the earliest maritime nations as a model of its kind, such improvements that met ".
United Nations Stabilisation Mission in Haiti
May 28, 2004 - Four Brazilian Navy ships ( G28 , G31 , G23 , F48 ) depart from port of Rio de Janeiro bound for Haiti on a peace mission coordinated by the United Nations (UN). The ships form the task force that will transport part of the military contingent that will work on behalf of Haitian reconstruction. In addition to 150 Marines and Army troops, the ships will carry most of the material that will be used by the Brazilian stabilization force - approximately 120 vehicles, 26 trailers of various types, and 81 containers loaded with equipment and supplies.February 28, 2010 the Brazilian Navy ship Garcia D'Ávila(G29) , from in Rio de Janeiro, with 900 tons of cargo, including humanitarian aid supplies to earthquake victims in Haiti as well as equipment for the Brazilian military that operates in that country. Ammunition is being brought for the Brazilian soldiers in addition to 14 power generators and 30 vehicles, including trucks, ambulances and armored vehicles. The crew of the ship consisted of 350 mariners.
2011 UNIFIL Maritime Task Force
On 15 February 2011, Brazil assumed command of the Maritime Task Force (MTF) of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL).On October 4, 2011 the Brazilian ministries of Defence and Foreign Relations informed that Brazil is going to send a Navy vessel with up to 300 crew members, equipped with an aircraft, to integrate the fleet of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (Unifil). The sending of the vessel, which is going to run the fleet, was authorized by the National Congress.
On November 25, 2011 The Brazilian Frigate “União (F45)” with 239 officers and sailors aboard has joined the UNIFIL Maritime Task Force, bringing to nine the number of vessels in the naval component of the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) which is assisting the Lebanese Navy monitor Lebanese territorial waters. The Frigate will serve as the Flagship for Rear Admiral Luiz Henrique Caroli of Brazil, the Commander of the UNIFIL-MTF since February.
Today
The main branches of the Brazilian Navy are:- The "Comando de Operações Navais" (Naval Operations Command)
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- The "Comando da Força de Superfície" (Surface Fleet Command)
- The "Comando da Força de Submarinos" (Submarine Fleet Command)
- The "Comando da Força Aeronaval" (Naval Aviation Command)
- The "Comando da 1ª Divisão da Esquadra" (1st Fleet Division Command)
- The "Comando da 2ª Divisão da Esquadra" (2nd Fleet Division Command)
- The "Comando Geral do Corpo de Fuzileiros Navais" (Marine Corps General Command)
Personnel
As of 2011, the Brazilian Navy has a reported strength of 60,000 active personnel. The current Navy Commander is Admiral Júlio Soares de Moura Neto.Active ships
The Brazilian Navy has about 100 ships in commission , and others in construction, process of acquisition, and modernization. Between 1996 and 2005 the Navy retired 21 ships.The Brazilian Navy operates one Clemenceau class aircraft carrier , the São Paulo , former French Navy Foch .
The Brazilian Navy operates four Tupi class and one Tikuna class Type 209 submarine . The Tupi class submarines will be upgraded by Lockheed Martin at a cost of $35 million. The modernization includes the replacement of existing torpedoes with new MK 48 torpedoes. On March 14, 2008, the Brazilian Navy purchased four Scorpène class submarines from France . The Brazilian Navy is currently developing its first nuclear submarine .
On August 2008 the Navy incorporated the corvette Barroso; it was designed and built in Brazil at a cost of $263 million.
On January 2012 BAE Systems has signed a deal with the Brazilian Navy to supply it with three patrol vessels Port of Spain class corvette . The contract is worth £133m. The ocean patrol vessels are already built, having been ordered by the government of Trinidad and Tobago in a contract which was terminated in 2010.
Aircraft inventory
As of 2011, the Naval Aviation arm of the Navy operates around 85 aircraft, with all but the A-4 Skyhawks being helicopters.As of 2009, the main naval bases in use are:
- Rio de Janeiro:
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- "Base Naval Almirante Castro e Silva", submarine base
- "Base Naval do Rio de Janeiro", main naval base
- "Arsenal da Marinha do Rio de Janeiro", naval shipyard
- "Base Aérea Naval de São Pedro da Aldeia", naval aviation base
- "Base de Fuzileiros Navais da Ilha do Governador", marine corps base
- "Base de Fuzileiros Navais da Ilha das Flores", marine corps base
- "Base de Fuzileiros Navais do Rio Meriti", marine corps base
- Bahia:
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- "Base Naval de Aratu", naval base and repair facility
- Rio Grande do Norte:
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- "Base Naval de Natal", naval base
- "Base Naval Almirante Ary Parreiras", naval base and repair facility
- Pará:
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- "Base Naval de Val-de-Cães", naval base and repair facility
- Mato Grosso do Sul:
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- "Base Fluvial de Ladário", riverine naval aviation base, riverine naval base and repair facility
- Amazonas:
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- "Estação Naval do Rio Negro", riverine naval base and repair facility
- Rio Grande do Sul :
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- "Estação Naval do Rio Grande", naval base
Mission
In addition to the roles of a traditional navy, the Brazilian Navy also carries out the role of organizing the merchant navy and other operational safety missions traditionally conducted by a coast guard . Other roles include:- conduct of national policies vis-à-vis the sea;
- Implementing and enforcing laws and regulations with respect to the sea and inland waters.
