An item reported that the Belgian king and queen (1) would depart on 1 September via the Brazilian battleship Sao Paulo (2) to visit Brazil and to returned at the end of October.
Notes
1. Albert Leopold Clemens Marie Meinrad (1875-1934), king of the Belgians between 1909-1934 as Albert I and Elisabeth Gabriele Valérie von Wittelsbach and duchess in Bavaria.
2. Of the Minas Geraes-class , preceded by Deodoro-class, succeeded by the Rio de Janeiro and palnned Riachuelo. 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 1930s, served 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.
Source
The National Archives CAB 24-111-18
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