Brazilian cruiser Bahia
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Bahia was the lead ship of a two-vessel class of cruisers built for Brazil by the British company Armstrong Whitworth. Crewmen mutinied in November 1910 aboard Bahia, Deodoro, Minas Geraes, and São Pa
Bahia sometime before its mid-1920s modernization, as indicated by its two funnels
João Cândido with reporters, officers and sailors on aboard Minas Geraes on 26 November 1910, the final day of the rebellion.
Bahia sometime after its major modernization; the addition of a funnel was a striking change to the ship's appearance
A profile of Bahia at some point after its 1920s modernization; note the men congregated on the foredeck
German submarine U-530
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German submarine U-530 was a Type IXC/40 U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II. She was laid down at the Deutsche Werft in Hamburg on 8 December 1941 as yard number 345, launched o
Brazilian cruiser Bahia
…ship's magazines. Vice Admiral Jorge Dodsworth Martins, Brazil's chief of naval intelligence, thought that Bahia could have been mined or torpedoed by U-530, which surrendered under strange circumstances in Mar del Plata, Argentina on 10 July (some two months after Germany's surrender), but the Argentine…
U-530 after her surrender at Mar del Plata Naval Base
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