Maritime History

Brazilian cargo ship Cabedello

Cabedello, also spelt Cabedelo, was a cargo steamship. She was built in Germany for Hamburg America Line (HAPAG) in 1912 as Prussia. She became Cabedello in 1917, when Brazil seized her and renamed her. In the first weeks of the First World War, Prussia was an auxiliary ship for an Imperial German Navy cruiser in the South Atlantic. That September, Prussia sought refuge in a port in neutral Brazil. Brazil seized her in 1917, after Germany started sinking Brazilian merchant ships. Lloyd Brasileiro was managing Cabedello by 1923, and owned her by 1927. She disappeared in the Atlantic Ocean in February 1942; most naval historians credit her sinking to the Italian submarine Leonardo da Vinci. She was the first of two Lloyd Brasileiro cargo ships to be named after Cabedelo in northeastern Brazil. Lloyd's Register always recorded her Brazilian name as Cabedello, with a double "L". After the war, Lloyd Brasileiro owned a cargo ship that was spelt Cabedelo, without the double "L". Canadian Vickers built her in 1945; she was still registered in 1959; but Lloyd's Register had deleted her by 1965.

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See also

• ▸HMS Hermes (95)
• ▸Chur
• ▸French corvette Diligente (1801)

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