Brasiloide
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| Name | Brasiloide | ||
| Type: | Motor merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 6,075 tons | ||
| Completed | 1936 - Howaldtswerke AG, Hamburg | ||
| Owner | Cia de Navegação Lloyd Brasileiro, Rio de Janeiro | ||
| Homeport | Rio de Janeiro | ||
| Date of attack | 18 Feb 1943 | Nationality:  Brazilian | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-518 (Friedrich-Wilhelm Wissmann) | ||
| Position | 12.47S, 37.33W - Grid FJ 8577 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 50 (0 dead and 50 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | |||
| Route | Maceio - Bahia | ||
| Cargo | General cargo, including cotton. salt, textiles and a deck cargo of motor boats and trucks | ||
| History | Completed in November 1936 as German Montevideo for Hamburg-Südamerikanische DG, Hamburg. On 20 Nov, 1939 laid up at Rio Grande. On 27 Jan, 1942 seized by Brazil and renamed Brasiloide. | ||
| Notes on loss | At 03.15 hours on 18 Feb, 1943, the unescorted Brasiloide (Master Eurico Gomes de Souza) was torpedoed by U-518 about 5 miles from the Garcia D´Avila lighthouse. The ship broke in two after being hit by a coup de grâce and sank in 12°38S/37°57W. | ||
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