Brazilian cruiser Bahia

Bahia sometime before her mid-1920s modernization, as indicated by her two funnels[1]
Career (Brazil)
Name: Bahia
Namesake: The Brazilian state of Bahia
Builder: Armstrong Whitworth[1][2]
Yard number: 809[2]
Laid down: 19 August 1907[1][2]
Launched: 20 January 1909[2]
Commissioned: 21 May 1910[3]
Fate: Sunk by an explosion, 4 July 1945[3][4]
General characteristics
Class and type:Bahia-class cruiser
Displacement:3,100 tonnes (3,050 long tons; 3,420 short tons)[1][3]
Length:122.38 m (401.5 ft) oa
115.82 m (380.0 ft) pp[3]
Beam:11.89–11.91 m (39.0–39.1 ft)[3]
Draft:3.81 m (12.5 ft) forward[3]
4.75 m (15.6 ft) amidships[3]
4.42 m (14.5 ft) aft[3]
Propulsion:Five Parsons steam turbines,[5] ten Yarrow boilers[3]
Coal normal 150 t (148 long tons; 165 short tons)[5]
Maximum 650 t (640 long tons; 717 short tons)[5]
Speed:27.016 knots (50.034 km/h; 31.089 mph) trial[1]
25 knots (46 km/h; 29 mph) at full load[3]
Endurance:1,400 nautical miles (2,600 km; 1,600 mi) at 23.5 knots (43.5 km/h; 27.0 mph)[5]
3,500 nautical miles (6,500 km; 4,000 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)[5]
Complement:320[5] to 357[3]
Armament:ten × 120 mm (4.724 in)/50 caliber,[3]
six × 3-pounder 47 mm (1.85 in)/50 caliber,[1][3]
two × 457 mm (18.0 in) torpedo tubes[1]
Armor:Deck: 19 mm (0.748 in)[1]
Conning tower: 76 mm (2.992 in)[1]
Notes:Specifications given are prior to the 1925–26 modernization.

Bahia was the lead ship of a two-vessel class of cruisers built for Brazil by the British company Armstrong Whitworth. In November 1910, just six months after her commissioning, crewmen aboard Bahia, Marechal Deodoro, Minas Geraes, and São Paulo mutinied, beginning the Revolta da Chibata (Revolt of the Lash). During the four-day rebellion, Brazil's capital city of Rio de Janeiro was held hostage by the possibility of a naval bombardment, leading the government to give in to the rebel demands, which included the abolition of flogging in the navy. During the First World War, Bahia and her sister ship Rio Grande do Sul were assigned to the Divisão Naval em Operações de Guerra (Naval Division in War Operations), the Brazilian Navy's main contribution in that conflict. Based out of Sierra Leone and Dakar, the squadron escorted convoys through an area believed to be heavily patrolled by U-boats.

In the mid-1920s, Bahia was extensively modernized. She received three new Brown–Curtis turbine engines and six new Thornycroft boilers, and, in the process, was converted from coal-burning to oil. The refit resulted in a striking aesthetic change, with the exhaust being trunked into three funnels instead of two. The armament was also modified; three 20 mm (0.79 in) Madsen guns, a 7 mm (0.28 in) Hotchkiss machine gun, and four 533 mm (21.0 in) torpedo tubes were added. In the 1930s, she served with government forces during multiple revolutions.

In the Second World War, Bahia was once again used as a convoy escort, sailing over 100,000 nautical miles (190,000 km; 120,000 mi) in the span of about a year. On 4 July 1945 she was acting as a plane guard for transport aircraft flying from the Atlantic to Pacific theaters of war. While Bahia‍ '​s gunners were firing at a kite for anti-aircraft practice, one aimed too low and hit depth charges stored near the stern of the ship, resulting in a massive explosion that incapacitated the ship and sank her within minutes. Only a small portion of the crew survived the blast, and even fewer were still living when their rafts were discovered days later.

Construction and commissioning

Bahia was part of a large 1904 naval building program by Brazil.[6][7] Also planned as part of this were the two Minas Geraes-class dreadnoughts, ten Pará-class destroyers, three submarines and a submarine tender.[7][8] With a design that borrowed heavily from the British Adventure-class scout cruisers,[1] Bahia‍ '​s keel was laid on 19 August 1907 in Armstrong Whitworth's Elswick, Newcastle upon Tyne yard.[1][2] Construction took about a year and a half, and she was launched on 20 January 1909.[2][6][upper-alpha 1] The process of fitting out pushed her completion date to 2 March 1910,[2] after which she sailed to Brazil, arriving in Recife on 6 May.[3] The new cruiser—the third ship of the Brazilian Navy to honor the state of Bahia[3][6]—was commissioned into the navy shortly thereafter on 21 May 1910.[3] As a class, Bahia and Rio Grande do Sul were the fastest cruisers in the world when they were commissioned,[1] and the first in the Brazilian Navy to utilize steam turbines for propulsion.[3]

Mutiny

Main article: Revolt of the Lash; see also: South American dreadnought race, "Brazilian naval revolt"

Brazil's economy was suffering from a severe recession at the same time Bahia was commissioned.[11] This economic hardship, along with the racism prevalent in all branches of the Brazilian armed forces, and the severe discipline enforced on all navy ships, spawned a mutiny known as the Revolta da Chibata (Revolt of the Whip) among sailors on the most powerful ships.[11][12]

Unhappy with the violent treatment they were receiving, black sailors on the dreadnought battleship Minas Geraes began planning an uprising early in 1910, choosing João Cândido Felisberto — an experienced sailor later known as the "Black Admiral" — as their leader.[11] In mid-November, a sailor was sentenced to be flogged in front of his fellow sailors, even though the practice had been banned by law.[11][12] The punishment was administered and continued even after the sailor fainted,[11] infuriating the nascent mutineers. Although they were not ready and could not revolt immediately, they quickened their preparations and rebelled on 21 November, earlier than originally planned.[12] They killed several officers and the captain of Minas Geraes, while other officers were forced off the ship.[12] The revolt quickly expanded to the battleship São Paulo, the elderly coastal defense ship Marechal Deodoro, and Bahia.[12] While joining the revolt, the crew of the scout cruiser murdered one of their officers.[6] During this time, discipline on the rebelling ships was not relaxed; daily drills were conducted and Felisberto ordered all liquor to be thrown overboard.[12]

João Cândido Felisberto with reporters, officers and sailors on aboard Minas Geraes on 26 November 1910, the final day of the rebellion.

The crews of the torpedo boats remained loyal to the government,[12] and army troops moved to the presidential palace and the coastline, but neither group could stop the mutineers.[11] The fact that many who manned Rio de Janeiro's harbor defenses were sympathetic to the mutineers' cause,[12] coupled with chance that the capital might be bombarded by the mutinous ships, forced the National Congress of Brazil to give in to the rebels' demands.[11] These included the abolition of flogging, improved living conditions, and the granting of amnesty to all mutineers.[11][12] The government also issued official pardons and a statement of regret; its submission resulted in the rebellion's end on 26 November, when control of the four ships was handed back to the navy.[11]

First World War

In the opening years of the First World War, the Brazilian Navy was sent out to patrol the South Atlantic with French, British and American naval units, although its ships were not supposed to engage any threat outside territorial waters as Brazil was not at war with the Central Powers.[13] The country also tried to ensure that it remained totally neutral; Bahia and Rio Grande do Sul were sent to Santos in August 1914 to enforce neutrality laws when it was reported that the German raider Bremen was lying in wait off that port for British and American merchant ships.[14][upper-alpha 2] Brazil joined the Entente and declared war on the Central Powers on 26 October 1917.[3][13]

On 21 December 1917, the Brazilian Navy—at the behest of the British—formed a small naval force with the intent of sending it to the other side of the Atlantic.[15] On 30 January 1918, Bahia was made the flagship of the newly organized Divisão Naval em Operações de Guerra (Naval Division in War Operations, abbreviated as DNOG), under the command of Rear Admiral Pedro Max Fernando Frontin.[3][6] The other ships assigned to the squadron were Bahia‍ '​s sister Rio Grande do Sul, Pará-class destroyers Piauí, Paraíba, Rio Grande do Norte and Santa Catarina, tender Belmonte, and tugboat Laurindo Pita.[3][6][7][15]

The DNOG sailed for the British colony of Sierra Leone on 31 July. Since other allied countries helped with logistics, little was provided by Brazil aside from the ships themselves and the men crewing them.[15] Despite the threat of a U-boat attack, they were forced to stop several times so Belmonte could transfer necessities such as coal and water to the other ships.[15] They reached Freetown safely on 9 August and remained in the port until 23 August when they departed for Dakar.[15] While on this section of the voyage, Bahia, Rio Grande do Sul, Rio Grande do Norte, Belmonte and Laurindo Pita spotted an apparent torpedo heading for Belmonte, but it missed. Rio Grande do Norte then fired several shots and depth-charged what the force believed to be a U-boat.[3][16] While the official Brazilian history of the ship definitively claims to have sunk a submarine,[3] author Robert Scheina notes that this action was never confirmed,[16] and works published about U-boat losses in the war do not agree.[17]

After arriving in Dakar on 26 August, the DNOG was tasked with patrolling a triangle with corners at Dakar, Cape Verde and Gibraltar; the Allies believed that this area was rife with U-boats waiting for convoys to pass through.[16] As such, the Brazilian unit's mission was to patrol for mines laid by German minelaying submarines and to make sure that convoys passing through would be safe.[16] Complications arose when both Bahia and Rio Grande do Sul had problems with their condensers, a matter which was made much worse by the hot, tropical climate in which the ships were serving.[16]

In early September, the squadron was struck by the Spanish flu pandemic.[16] The contagion began aboard Bahia, spread to the other ships of the squadron and remained present for seven weeks.[16] At one point, 95% of some of the ships' crews were infected; 103 died overseas, and 250 died in Brazil after returning there.[16] On 3 November, Bahia, three of the four destroyers, and the tugboat were sent to Gibraltar for operations in the Mediterranean Sea.[16] They arrived on 9 or 10 November,[6][16][18][upper-alpha 3] escorted by the American destroyer Israel,[6][18] but the fighting ceased on the 11th when the Armistice with Germany was signed.[16] Sometime in early 1919, Bahia, accompanied by four destroyers, voyaged to Portsmouth, England; they then traveled across the English Channel to Cherbourg, arriving there on 15 February.[19] The commander of the squadron, Admiral Pedro Max Fernando Frontin, met with the Maritime Prefect prior to the commencement of "social events"; these lasted until 23 February, when the ships moved to Toulon and Frontin journeyed overland to Paris.[19] The DNOG was dissolved on 25 August 1919.[3]

Modernization and inter-war years

A ship with a tall mast and low superstructure apparently at rest
Bahia sometime after her major modernization; the addition of a funnel was a striking change to the ship's appearance

In 1925–26,[1][6][upper-alpha 4] Bahia underwent significant modernization.[3] The original five turbines were replaced by three Brown–Curtis turbines, while the original ten boilers were replaced by six Thornycroft oil-burning boilers, which necessitated the addition of a third funnel. The former coal bunkers, along with some of the space freed up by the decrease in boilers, were converted to hold 588,120 litres (155,360 US gal) of oil.[3] These modifications resulted in Bahia‍ '​s top speed increasing to 28 knots (52 km/h).[1] All of the boats on board were replaced, and three 20 mm (0.79 in) Madsen guns, a 7 mm (0.28 in) Hotchkiss machine gun, and four 533 mm (21.0 in) torpedo tubes were added to give the ship a defense against aircraft and more power against surface ships, respectively.[3] Still, in 1930 The New York Times labeled Bahia and the other warships in Brazil's navy as "obsolete" and noted that nearly all were "older than the ages considered effective by powers signatory to the Washington and London Naval Treaties."[22]

On 28 June 1926, the Ludington Daily News reported that Bahia would pay a visit to Philadelphia, accepting an invitation from the United States government to participate in the sesquicentennial celebrations.[21][upper-alpha 5] In mid-1930, Bahia and Rio Grande do Sul—under the command of Heráclito Belford Gomes—escorted Brazil's President-elect Júlio Prestes to the United States.[23] Traveling on board the Brazilian-Lloyd ocean liner Almirante Jacequay, Prestes was returning American then-President-elect Herbert Hoover's visit to Brazil in December 1928.[23][24] The cruisers USS Trenton and Marblehead met the three ships about 100 miles (160 km) off of Sandy Hook and honored Prestes with a 21-gun salute.[25][26] After spending five hours in the Ambrose Channel due to fog, Prestes traveled on a launch to a pier, during which Bahia rendered one 21-gun salute and Fort Jay offered two.[26] After arriving ashore, he traveled to City Hall before speeding down to Washington, D.C.[26] He stayed in the United States for eight days before departing for France on the White Star Line's Olympic.[27] Bahia and Rio Grande do Sul were berthed at the Brooklyn Navy Yard for the visit.[26]

During the Brazilian Revolution of 1930, Bahia served with Rio Grande do Sul—until that ship defected—and five or six destroyers off the coast of Santa Catarina; they were once again commanded by Belford Gomes.[3][28][upper-alpha 6] Two years later, when the state of São Paulo rebelled in the Constitutionalist Revolution, Bahia—under the command of Frigate Captain Lucas Alexandre Boiteux—and other vessels blockaded the rebel-held port of Santos.[3][6] Bahia was under repair from 1934 into 1935.[6] In November 1935, Bahia and Rio Grande do Sul sailed to Natal, the capital of Rio Grande do Norte, to lend support against another rebellion.[30][31] As part of their mission, they were ordered to sink the steamship Santos on sight, as several escaping leaders of the revolution were on board.[32]

From 17–22 May 1935,[33][34] Bahia and Rio Grande do Sul—joined at an unknown point by the Argentine battleships Rivadavia and Moreno, the heavy cruisers Almirante Brown and Veinticinco de Mayo, and five destroyers[34]—escorted São Paulo, with Brazilian President Getúlio Dornelles Vargas embarked, up the Río de la Plata (River Plate) to Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina.[6][33][34][35] Vargas was returning visits from the presidents of Argentina and Uruguay, Agustín Pedro Justo and Gabriel Terra.[6][33] Vargas and Justo planned to be present at the opening session of the Pan-American Commercial Conference on 26 May,[33] and open a Chaco War peace conference,[33][35] before São Paulo conveyed Vargas to Montevideo, Uruguay for meetings with Terra.[35]

On 2 March 1936, Bahia escorted Veinticinco de Mayo, which had the Argentine Navy Minister Rear Admiral Eleazar Videla embarked, and Almirante Brown in the last part of their journey to Rio de Janeiro.[36]

Second World War

After Brazil's entrance into the Second World War on 21 August 1942, which took effect on 31 August,[37] Bahia was used extensively for escorts and patrols; sources conflict as to the actual number—either 67 and 15[3] or 62 and 11.[20] In total, she traveled 101,971 nmi (188,850 km; 117,346 mi) in 358 days, and played a role in shepherding over 700 merchant ships,[3] though she and Rio Grande do Sull were labeled by the United States Naval Institute's magazine Proceedings as being "oversized destroyers" that were "relatively slow".[38]

Bahia was modernized again twice during the war, in both 1942 and 1944; these modernizations were not as extensive as those of the 1920s. Two of her 47 mm (1.9 in) guns were replaced with 76 mm (3.0 in) L/23 AA guns, her Madsen guns were replaced with seven Oerlikon 20 mm cannons in single mounts, and a director for these guns was installed.[3] Two depth charge tracks were added, improved range-finders were added to the 120 mm (4.7 in) guns, and sonar and radar were fitted, in addition to other minor modifications.[3][upper-alpha 7] The Brazilian Navy's official history of the ship reports these modifications, but does not specify which were undertaken in which year.[3]

On 3 June 1943, while Bahia was escorting the convoy BT 12, she located an underwater mine and destroyed it with one of her 20 mm (0.79 in) Madsen guns.[3] On 10 July, while at 26°15′S 43°35′W / 26.250°S 43.583°W, Bahia received a sonar contact and depth-charged what the Brazilian Navy's official history of the ship reports might have been the German submarine U-199, which was sunk later that month in the same area (off Rio de Janeiro) by American and Brazilian aircraft.[3][39] In November 1944, Bahia joined the American light cruiser Omaha and destroyer escort Gustafson in accompanying the 4th Squadron of the Brazilian Expeditionary Force as they were carried on the troop transport General M. C. Meigs to Italy.[3]

Loss

A warship at sea under a bright sky, possibly underway
A profile of Bahia at some point after her 1920s modernization; note the men congregated on the foredeck

At the end of hostilities in the European theater in May 1945 various warships of the Allied nations, including Brazil's, were assigned to patrol in the Atlantic as rescue ships, standing by near routes frequented by military transport aircraft carrying personnel from Europe to the continuing war in the Pacific.[6][40] Bahia was one such ship;[40] on 4 July 1945, she was stationed northeast of Brazil around 0°N 30°W / 0°N 30°W, near the Arquipélago de São Pedro e São Paulo (Saint Peter and Saint Paul Archipelago).[3][4][6] For anti-aircraft target practice, crewmen were firing the ship's 20 mm guns at a kite that was being towed behind the ship. One of them shot it down, but also accidentally hit the depth charges on the stern—a direct consequence of the lack of guide rails that would normally prohibit the guns from being aimed at the ship.[4][6] The resulting explosion knocked out all power on the ship and sank her in about three minutes.[1][4][41]

The survivors of the blast endured four or five days of no food, high temperatures and full exposure to the sun on their makeshift rafts;[41][42] some, driven mad by these conditions, simply jumped into the water and were devoured by sharks.[42] From this point on, sources vary greatly. According to an article in Time, Bahia‍ '​s loss was not discovered until 8 July, when 22 survivors were picked up by a freighter, Balfe.[41][43][upper-alpha 8] Naval historian Robert Scheina, however, says that the disaster was revealed when Rio Grande do Sul arrived on station four days after the sinking to take Bahia‍ '​s place and could not find her.[4]

Sources also disagree on the number rescued and final death toll. The official history of the ship gives 36 rescued and 336 dead,[3] and the Navios de Guerra Brasileiros gives 36 and 339.[6][upper-alpha 9] Contemporary news articles also published varying numbers; in an article published a day after the accident became known, The Evening Independent stated that the ship carried 383 men, though it did not give any more information.[44] The New York Times gave figures of 28 saved and 347 lost,[42] while the St. Petersburg Times gave 32 and 395.[45] Sources do agree, however, that four American sound technicians were killed.[3][6][46]

Rescued crewmen believed that they had hit a mine that detonated one of the ship's magazines.[41] Vice Admiral Jorge Dodsworth Martins—Brazil's chief of naval intelligence—thought that Bahia could have been mined or torpedoed by U-530,[42][47] which surrendered under strange circumstances in Mar del Plata, Argentina, on 10 July (some two months after Germany's surrender), but the Argentine Naval Ministry stated that it would have been impossible for the submarine to travel from the site of the sinking to Mar del Plata in six days (4–10 July).[47][upper-alpha 10] By late October, the Brazilian Navy had come to the conclusion that Bahia had been sunk by an accidental explosion.[46][49]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ There is some scholarly confusion about when Bahia and Rio Grande do Sul were launched. The Miramar Ship Index—using information from contemporary builders' records—and the Navios de Guerra Brasileiros record Bahia‍ '​s launching date as 20 January 1909, and her sister ship Rio Grande do Sul‍ '​s as 20 April 1909.[2] Bahia‍ '​s date is backed up by a contemporary news report from the Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer.[9] Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921 and the Brazilian Navy's official history wrongly reverse these dates, giving 20 January for Rio Grande do Sul and 20 April for Bahia.[1][10] Confusing matters further, the Brazilian Navy's official history gives 19 April for Rio Grande do Sul.[3]
  2. ↑ The New York Times‍ '​ article refers to Bremen, but that ship was in the Baltic Sea at the time. The only German cruiser in that area in August 1914 was Dresden. The misidentification was probably due to the fog of war.
  3. ↑ Sources give different dates; the Navios de Guerra Brasileiros and Israel‍ '​s Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships entry give 9 November, while Scheina gives 10 November.[6][16][18]
  4. ↑ The official history of the ship gives a 1924–1927 range,[3] while Scheina in Conway's, the Navios de Guerra Brasileiros, and Whitley give 1925–1926.[1][6][20] Additional collaborating evidence for the latter date can be found in a June 1926 Ludington Daily News article which reported that Bahia was going to visit the United States—implying that the ship had been placed back into service.[21]
  5. ↑ There appears to have been no follow-up article on what occurred after Bahia arrived.
  6. ↑ Rio Grande do Sul defected at an unknown date,[28] and Bahia may have as well; on 6 October, a rebel general claimed that both ships had defected.[29]
  7. ↑ Regarding the installation of sonar, it is not clear whether it was fitted for the first time in 1942 (and used in the 10 July depth charging) or whether a more modern sonar replaced an outmoded version in either 1942 or 1944.
  8. ↑ The magazine also reports that additional survivors were rescued over the next few days, but does not give a definitive figure. the Navios de Guerra Brasileiros, however, states that a total of 36 survivors were rescued by Balfe on the 8th.[6][41]
  9. ↑ These figures contradict other information present in the article, however. Navios first says that 339 of 372 total crewmembers died, meaning that 33 survived, but the subsequent sentence states directly that 36 survived.[6]
  10. ↑ Rumors persist today that either U-530 or U-977 sank Bahia.[48]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 Scheina, "Brazil," 405.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 R.B. Haworth, "6103832 [Bahia]" (subscription required), Miramar Ship Index. Retrieved 19 October 2009.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14 3.15 3.16 3.17 3.18 3.19 3.20 3.21 3.22 3.23 3.24 3.25 3.26 3.27 3.28 3.29 3.30 3.31 3.32 3.33 3.34 3.35 3.36 3.37 3.38 3.39 3.40 "Bahia (3°)" (Portuguese), Histórico de Navios; Serviço de Documentação da Marinha, Marinha do Brasil. Retrieved 27 January 2015.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Scheina, Latin America‍ '​s Wars, 427.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 Moore ed., Janes Fighting Ships, 300.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 6.7 6.8 6.9 6.10 6.11 6.12 6.13 6.14 6.15 6.16 6.17 6.18 6.19 6.20 6.21 "Cruzador Bahia – C 12/C 2" (Portuguese), Navios de Guerra Brasileiros. Retrieved 8 November 2012.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Scheina, "Brazil," 403.
  8. ↑ Scheina, Latin America's Wars, 37.
  9. ↑ "Brazilian Warship Launched at Elswich," Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, 21 January 1909, 4.
  10. ↑ R.B. Haworth, "6103914 [Rio Grande do Sul]" (subscription required), Miramar Ship Index. Retrieved 19 October 2009.
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 11.5 11.6 11.7 11.8 Smallman, Fear & Memory, 28.
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4 12.5 12.6 12.7 12.8 Scheina, Latin America's Wars, 74.
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Scheina, Latin America's Wars, 35, 37–38.
  14. ↑ "Warships off Argentina," The New York Times, 7 August 1914, 7.
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 15.4 Scheina, Latin America's Wars, 38.
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 16.3 16.4 16.5 16.6 16.7 16.8 16.9 16.10 16.11 Scheina, Latin America‍ '​s Wars, 39.
  17. ↑ Scheina, Latin America's Wars, 396.
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 "Israel," Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, Naval History & Heritage Command/Navy Department.
  19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 "Brazilian Warships at Cherbourg," The New York Times, 16 February 1919, 23.
  20. ↑ 20.0 20.1 Whitley, Cruisers of World War II, 22.
  21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 "Brazilian cruiser Will Pay Visit," Ludington Daily News, 28 June 1926, 5.
  22. ↑ "Brazil Navy Composed of 28 Obsolete Ships," The New York Times, 7 October 1930, 3.
  23. ↑ 23.0 23.1 "Program for Visit of Senor Prestes," The New York Times, 8 June 1930, 13.
  24. ↑ "City Hails Prestes for Nation Today," The New York Times, 11 June 1930, 16.
  25. ↑ "Cruisers meet Prestes's Ship," The New York Times, 11 June 1930, 16.
  26. ↑ 26.0 26.1 26.2 26.3 "Prestes Acclaimed by City and Nation," The New York Times, 12 June 1930, 21.
  27. ↑ "President-elect of Brazil at Sea," Pittsburgh Press, 21 June 1930, 2.
  28. ↑ 28.0 28.1 "Cavalry Put in Action as Battle Begins," Sarasota Herald, 10 October 1930, 2.
  29. ↑ "80,000 Rebels Move on Rio and Sao Paulo From the South," The New York Times, 7 October 1930, 1.
  30. ↑ "Brazil Revolt Takes 40 Lives; Federal Gain," Miami Daily News, 26 November 1935, 13.
  31. ↑ "Rebels Seize Brazil Towns," Pittsburgh Press, 25 November 1935, 17.
  32. ↑ "Loyal Troops, Rebels Fight as Uprising in Brazil hits Capital," Urbana Daily Courier, 27 November 1935, 1.
  33. ↑ 33.0 33.1 33.2 33.3 33.4 "Brazil's President Sails for Argentina; Vargas, Returning Visit of Justo, Escorted by Fleet Bound of Winter Manoeuvres," The New York Times, 18 May 1935, 4.
  34. ↑ 34.0 34.1 34.2 "Argentina Greets Brazil's President; Hails Vargas With Elaborate Ceremonies as He Arrives to Promote Trade Relations," The New York Times, 23 May 1935, 14.
  35. ↑ 35.0 35.1 35.2 "Argentina: Lobsters, Pigeons, Parades," Time, 3 June 1935.
  36. ↑ "Argentine Navy Head is Received in Brazil; Visit of Admiral Videla Viewed as Evidence of Growing American Ties," The New York Times, 3 March 1936, 14.
  37. ↑ Scheina, Latin America‍ '​s Wars, 164.
  38. ↑ "Brazil," Proceedings 65 (June 1939): 436; 901–902; quoted in Scheina, Latin America's Wars, 164.
  39. ↑ "Barnegat", Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, Naval History & Heritage Command/Navy Department.
  40. ↑ 40.0 40.1 Scheina, Latin America's Wars, 169.
  41. ↑ 41.0 41.1 41.2 41.3 41.4 "Brazil: Disaster," Time, 23 July 1945.
  42. ↑ 42.0 42.1 42.2 42.3 "Rescued Brazilians Tell Of Sufferings," The New York Times, 12 July 1945, 22.
  43. ↑ R.B. Haworth, "1143604 [Balfe]" (subscription required), Miramar Ship Index. Retrieved 19 October 2009.
  44. ↑ "Brazilian Cruiser Lost in Explosion," Evening Independent, 9 July 1945, 2.
  45. ↑ "Brazilian Cruiser Sinks in Atlantic," St. Petersburg Times, 10 July 1945, 3.
  46. ↑ 46.0 46.1 "Brazil Cruiser Sinking Accident," The New York Times, 31 October 1945, 10.
  47. ↑ 47.0 47.1 "Argentina: U-530," Time, 23 July 1945.
  48. ↑ Hernan Etchaleco, "Uebersee Sued: The Ultimate Truth about Nazis Fled to South America," Pravda, 27 February 2003.
  49. ↑ "Brazilian Cruiser Sunk Explosion Killed 300," Toronto Daily Star, 30 October 1945, 10.

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