Naufrágio Cisne Branco

The Cisne Branco was a motor vessel with a wooden hull, built in Santa Catarina for the merchant navy. During the war, she made voyages through a conflict zone between Natal and Belém and took part in troop supply convoys. It is said that she anchored at an uncharted spot and, while taking on cargo, struck her hull on the rocks of the seabed and sank. Besides the crew, a sergeant and five Army soldiers were on board, and all survived except a boatswain, who died in Fortaleza. In 2006, the courts upheld a special war veteran's pension for Turíbio João Moreira, the ship's former cook, ruling that the voyage to a confidential port carrying war materiel amounted to taking part in a wartime convoy. The wreck is recorded as broken up.