Eber

Eber was the last of the six Iltis-class gunboats of the Imperial German Navy, launched on 6 June 1903, and spent the following seven years as a reserve ship. In late August 1914, near Trindade Island, she transferred to the German liner Cap Trafalgar, which had been converted into a commerce raider, two 10.5 cm guns, coal and most of her trained military crew. Already disarmed and under a merchant flag, she reached Salvador in September 1914, and the Port Authority authorized her internment in the Itapagipe cove. Anchored off the Ribeira peninsula, she stayed there for almost 3 years, maintained by her crew, even receiving a fresh coat of paint. She was the only German warship interned in Brazilian ports during the First World War.

When Brazil entered the war, the remaining crew set the ship on fire on 26 October 1917 and opened her sea valves to prevent her capture. About 40 minutes later, the gunboat heeled to starboard and sank, leaving only the masts and part of the hull side above water. Over the following months, the Navy tried to refloat her to add her to the fleet, without success. In 1972, the "telescópico", probably the rangefinder, was removed from the gunboat.

Today the ship is heavily broken up, probably due to salvage and dynamite fishing blasts, and what remains is largely buried in the mud, tangled with fragments of net and debris. Few pieces can still be made out: part of the hull with large wooden logs, the frames, a mooring bollard and parts of one of the masts. On 26 October 2017, the centenary of the sinking, descendants of commander Alfredo Schaumburg dived on the wreck, in a visit of about 40 minutes. On that October 2017 dive, a moray eel and schools of fish were seen around the ship.