From the Great War to the Ilha Grande

the last post-war attempt to take away the new Navy Yard from the Guanabara Bay

  • Fernando Ribas De Martini Mestre em História Social pela Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH) da Universidade de São Paulo (USP), doutorando em História Econômica pela mesma universidade. Pesquisador de História das Ciências, com ênfase em temas navais e militares.
Keywords: Navy Yard,, Ilha Grande Bay, Industrialization

Abstract

Brazil renewed its fleet with modern warships in the first decade of the 20th Century. However, the country failed to modernize the precarious facilities of the ancient Navy Yard, whose workshops were squeezed in the central area of Rio de Janeiro and also dispersed in caos throughout Baía de Guanabara (Guanabara Bay). The Navy was divided between the advocates of new facilities to be built on Ilha das Cobras (Cobras Island), near the main workshops of the old Yard, and the supporters of a big industrial and military structure to be erected at Baía da Ilha Grande (Ilha Grande Bay), far from the Federal Capital. This article addresses their dispute, decisions, actions and conter-actions, before, during and after the First World War. It’s main subject is the last attempt from the advocates of Baía da Ilha Grande, made after the war, which came closer to succeed before failing at the end of 1922.

Published
2020-06-17
Issue
Vol 13 No 26 (2017): Revista Navigator - Dossiê História marítima, militar e naval do Brasil nos oitocentos: política, sociedade e historiografia
Section
Artigos