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Monday 31 October 2016

Mutiny broken out in Brazilian navy according to the Dutch newspaper Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant dated 5 November 1924

Minas Geraes-class

An item dated Buenos Aires, Argentina 4th reported that a mutiny broken out in the Brazilian navy included on board of the battleship Sao Paulo.(1)  Another newspaper De Tribune also of the 5th reported that she fired back when she reached open sea.

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1. Laid down at Vickers, Barrow, England on 30 April 1907, launched and baptized by Mrs. Régis de Oliveira, on 19 April 1909, commissioned on 12 July 1910, refitted at New York, USA between 7 August 1918-7 January 1920, not modernized during to her worse condition in the 1930sserved as harbour defence ship during the Second World War, stricken on 2 August 1947, Training vessel until August 1951, sold to the Iron and Steel Corporation of Great Britain to be broken up and sunk when she was underway from Rio de Janeiro to the scrap yard at Greenock with her caretaker crew on board north of the Azores in early November 1951 without finding a trace of her back. The original armament consisted of 6x2-30,48cm/12” guns, 22-12cm/4.7” guns and 8-3pd guns. During her modernisation in 1918-1920 were 18-12cm guns removed and replaced by some modern anti aircraft guns2-7,6cm/3” 50 cal guns and 3,7cm guns.