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BRAZILIAN SHIP SUNK BY U-BOATAt Least 78 Persons Missing After Torpedoing Off Sergipe StateRIO DE JANERIO. Aug. 7—Iff: —The Brazalian passenger steamer Bage was torpedoed and sunk off the state of Sergipe the night of July 31. it was announced officially here tonight, and 78 of her passengers and crew are missing.The Bage—the largest Brazalian merchant ship—was carrying 129 passengers, of whom 41 were unaccounted for after the sinking, and a crew of 102. The passenger list included women and children.Loss of the Bage brought to 24 the number of Brazalian ships announced as having been sunk by enemy submarines since the start of the war. The Bage was hit by one torpedo and sank quickly. Some ot the persons aboard her reached safety by clinging to wreckage.Before the war the Bage was used in trans-Atlantic service but she was put on a coastal route after Brazil severed relations with the Axis. She was used last year as an exchange ship to repatriate Axis and Brazalian diplomats and nationals.Twenty-seven of the passengers were enroute to this city.Thus far 69 crew members and 19 passengers have arrived lit Aracaju. capital of Sergipe state, which is on the coastal hump 950 miles northwest of Rio de Janeiro.Among the missing are two women and six children, including a year-old child. The captain of the Bage—who according to reports was in a lifeboat which had a compass and an emergency radio—is among the missing.In the first two lifeboats which arrived on the Sergipe coast Aug. 2 were 56 crewmen. Eight passengers clinging to wreckage laterwere washed ashore.The fact these passengers reached safety indicated that the attack occurred near the coast.On the morning of Aug. 6. another lifeboat appeared with 16 persons, of whom seven were passengers and the rest members of the crew. The passengers in this boat included two women, one child and four men. Later eight other shipwrecked persons from the Bage were found.The Bage entered the coastwise shipping service in Brazil after Lloyd Brasileiro halted European traffic.The Bage left Rio de Janeiro April 11 for Belem. It was returning from Belem when sunk. Its ports of call included Recife, Bahia. Rio de Janeiro and Santos. The Bage was carrying a valuable cargo of rubber fibers. Brazil nuts and cotton, it was announced.1h
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Wilmington Morning Star
Wilmington, North Carolina, US
Sun, Aug 08, 1943
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