Brazilian battleship São Paulo underway to the scrapyard disappeared at sea according to the Dutch newspaper Gereformeerd gezinsblad dated 17 November 1951

An item dated Lisbon, Portugal 14^th reported that a tug telegraphed on the Thursday before that she found the already for 11 days lost old Brazilian battleship São Paulo back.(1) She was towed to the scrap yard when she broke loose during a storm between the Azores and Madeira. About the fate of the 8 runners on board was nothing said.

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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 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. 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.