Brazil protesting by Germany about sinking Brazilian merchant ships according to the U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee. Daily summary dated 7 March 1942

An item reported that Brazil again, via Portugal, would protested by Germany over the sinking of the Olinda and Buarque threatening to confiscate German properties if there came none satisfactory agreement.(1)

Note

1. The Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf dated 21 February 1942 reported that the Brazilian merchant ship Olinda was sunk on 18 February. Her crew of 46 men was saved. Built by Hamilton Wm.&Co. Ltd., Glasgow, Scotland in 1905 as the British cargo steamship Cara, renamed in 1912 as the Dutch Kennemerland and since 1934 the Brazilian Olinda, torpedoed by the German submarine U-432 under way from Brazil to the USA. The Dutch newspaper Amigoe di Curacao reported that on 16 February at 22.25 o’clock the Buarque of the Lloyd Brasileiro was torpedoed and sunk. Built by American International Shipbuilding Corporation, Hog Island Shipyard, Philadelphia as the steamship Bird City for the US Shipping Board in 1919, renamed Scanpenn in 1932 and Buarque in 1940, torpedoed by the German submarine U-432 underway from Brazil to the USA.

Source

Map Room Papers (Roosevelt Administration), 1942 - 1945. U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee. Daily summary No. 87 dated 7 March 1942.