Monte Pascoal before her launch
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Name | Monte Pascoal |
Namesake | Monte Pascoal |
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Builder | Blohm & Voss |
Yard number | 491 |
Launched | 17 September 1930 |
Completed | 15 January 1931 |
Maiden voyage | 26 January 1931 |
Out of service | 3 February 1944 |
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Fate | Scuttled 31 December 1946 |
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Class and type | Monte-class ocean liner |
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Tonnage | 13,870 GRT, 7,762 NRT |
Length | 152.60 metres (500 ft 8 in) |
Beam | 19.99 metres (65 ft 7 in) |
Depth | 11.48 metres (37 ft 8 in) |
Decks | Four |
Installed power | 4 diesel engines, 1,436 NHP |
Propulsion | Twin screw propellers |
Speed | 14 knots (26 km/h) |
Capacity | 2,500 passengers |
Notes | sister ships Monte Cervantes, Monte Olivia, Monte Rosa and Monte Sarmiento |
Monte Pascoal was a German Monte-class ocean liner built in 1930 by Blohm & Voss, Hamburg for the Hamburg-Südamerikanische Dampfschifffahrts-Gesellschaft (HSDG). She managed to reach Germany after the outbreak of World War II and was requisitioned by the Kriegsmarine for use as an accommodation ship. She was sunk in 1944 during an Allied air raid on Wilhelmshaven. Subsequently, refloated, she was seized by the Allies post war and was scuttled in the Skaggerak with a cargo of gas bombs in 1946.
She can be briefly seen moored in London's docks in the short 1939 travelogue film "River Thames".