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An item reported that 23 crewmembers of the Brazilian battleship Minas Geraes were arrested for the possession on board of communist texts. The men were to be handed over to the police. In begin April exploded a boiler on board and since then communists tried constantly to undermine the discipline among the crew.(1)
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1. Of the Minas Geraes-class consisting of the Minas Geraes and the Sao Paulo preceded by Deodoro-class succeeded by Rio de Janeiro and planned Riachuelo. Building ordered in 1906, laid down at Armstrong Whitworth, Newcastle-on-Tyne, England with yard number 791 on 17 April 1907, launched on 10 September 1908, completed on 5 January 1910, modernized 22 August 1920-4 October 1921 at New York, modernized at the Rio de Janeiro Naval Yard between June 1931-April 1938, modernized 1939-1943, during the Second World War serving as floating battery in the harbour of Salvador, decommissioned on 16 May 1952, stricken on 31 December 1952, sold to SA Cantiere Navale de Santa Maria, departed on 1 March 1954 to her final fate arriving on 22 April 1954 at Genoa, Italy where she was the same year broken up.
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