Tymbira was a torpedo cruiser operated by the Brazilian Navy, belonging to the Tupi-class along with Tamoio and Tupi.

Its name is a tribute to the Timbiras, a Brazilian indigenous people who inhabited the current territory of the state of Maranhão.

Its propulsion system consisted of two steam engines that generated 7,693 hp of power and propelled the vessel up to 22.5 knots.

By the end of 1913, it was with the fleet of the São Sebastião Island Squadron, for naval exercises, formed by the battleships Minas Geraes, São Paulo, Floriano and Deodoro; the cruisers Almirante Barroso, Bahia and Rio Grande do Sul, the torpedo cruisers Tamoio and Tupi, the destroyers Amazonas, Pará, Piauí, Rio Grande do Norte, Alagoas, Paraíba, Sergipe, Paraná, and Santa Catarina.

During the First World War, it patrolled the Brazilian coast between the ports of the northern region and Rio de Janeiro.