Navigator (Dec 2005)
A Saga dos Pescadores do Changri-lá
Abstract
During Second World War, the Brazilian fishing boats were supposed to help the naval forces, wathching the territorial waters. This was the Changri-lá’s case, sunk during the night of June 22, 1943, by the German submarine U-199, when going from Rio de Janeiro to Cabo Frio coast. In 1944, the Brazilian Maritime Tribunal coudn’t determinate the cause of her disappearance. In 1999, reopening this process, the Marítime Tribunal, with new evidences, altered his previous conclusions. The U-199 was sunk by a Brazilian Air Force airplane, a PBY-5 Catalina, in July 6, 1943, south of Rio de Janeiro. The Changri-lá crew names were included in the Brazilian Memorial for the Second World War deaths, called Panteão dos Heróis de Guerra. The ceremony was held in 6 of June, 2004.
