Marshal Deodoro class coastal defense ship

French-designed and built coast defense battleships built for Brazil in the late 1890s. They had a low freeboard, long superstructures and single-gun main turrets arranged close to ships ends with a secondary battery mounted in casemates. While they were built in France, they were armed with British Armstrong guns. The ships had a thick, but very narrow armored belt tapered to lower edge. While they were the most modern Brazilian capital ships of their day, they were completely outdated prior to World War I compared to major power's capital ships.

In 1924, Brazil sold Marshal Deodoro to the Mexican Navy for the price of 8,000 Brazilian contos. She served in the Mexican Navy for another 14 years, primarily as a training vessel.