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The Brazilian Navy Training Ship U27, mooring alongside HMS Belfast

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Dreadnought Battleship BNS Minas Gerais pictured preparing to coal ship at Brooklyn Navy Yard in July 1913...As in the First World War, Brazil was neutral during the early years of the WWII. German attacks on Brazilian merchant ships pushed the country into war on the Allied side; Brazil declared war on August 21st 1942, taking effect on August 31st.
Apart from three destroyers launched in 1940 and four submarines from the inter-war years, Brazil's warships were old and mostly obsolete pre-First World War vessels. The mainstays of the fleet, Minas Gerais, São Paulo, Bahia, and Rio Grande do Sul, were all over thirty years old. Although Minas Gerais had been further refitted from 1939 to 1943, the ship was still too old and in too poor a condition for any active role in the Second World War; instead, the Dreadnought was anchored as a floating battery in the port of Salvador for the duration of the war.
Minas Gerais was inactive for much of the rest of its career. Decommissioned on May 16th 1952, it was used as a stationary headquarters for the Commander-in-Chief of the Brazilian Navy until December 17th of that year. The ship was removed from the naval register on December 31st, and sold to the Italian ship breaking company SA Cantiere Navale de Santa Maria. Minas Gerais was taken under tow on 1 March 1954 and arrived in Genoa on 22 April 22nd; the old Dreadnought, which had been in service for more than forty years, was broken up for scrap later that year.

Brazilian Navy Side-Wheel Paddle Frigate Amazonas pictured in 1863.

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Brazilian frigate Liberal Built by Vosper Thornycroft, Southampton 1978.
HMS Trent likely to join her participating in multi-national Guinex III in Gulf of Guinea in October.

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SA Defensa
The Niterói class frigate Liberal (F43) of the Marmilbr has set sail from her home port in Rio de Janeiro.
Liberal will head to the Atlantic coast of Africa where she will take part in the Operation GUINEX exercise.

Brazilian Iron Clad Battleship BNS Aquidabã pictured in the Hudson River, NYC during the Columbian Naval Review in 1893.

Pelican wrote: ↑Wed Sep 28, 2022 4:37 pm The Brazilian Navy Training Ship U27, mooring alongside HMS Belfast

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She back again. Image from Tim.

Pelican wrote: ↑Tue Oct 03, 2023 2:06 pm

Pelican wrote: ↑Wed Sep 28, 2022 4:37 pm The Brazilian Navy Training Ship U27, mooring alongside HMS Belfast

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She back again. Image from Tim.

P.S. Brazilian training ship NE Brasil (U27) passing Gravesend 02/10/2023 on her way to HMS Belfast.

Brazilian Dreadnought Battleship Minas Gerais.

Lead Ship, Brazilian Dreadnought Battleship Minas Geraes pictured at NYC on October 7th 1921, post her modernization refit.