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...Overboard. Revolutionist Henrique Galváo, 65, who had seized the Santa Maria twelve days before and some 2,800 miles away in the name of the Portuguese Liberation junta, refused to dock at Recife until he was assured of supplies, fuel, and permission to sail off again. U.S. Rear Admiral Allen E. Smith Jr. boarded the Santa Maria to discuss the fate of the 42 U.S. passengers, was met by Galváo wearing a black beret, a khaki uniform with shoulder boards, and an armband in the green and red of Portugal's flag. Swashbuckling Galv...
When Brazilian representatives finally came out from Recife, Galváo's mind was made up for him. The long-patient 607 passengers on the Santa Maria shouted that they had had enough of pointless wandering, short rations, and the sweltering discomfort caused by the breakdown of the ship's air conditioning. The docile 360-man crew - only five of whom had deserted to the rebels-grew mutinous at the thought of putting to sea again under Galváo. During the scuffling argument, someone was pushed through a glass door in the lounge. Three crew members jumped...
Surrendering to the inevitable, he brought the Santa Maria into Recife harbor, dropped anchor 500 yds. from the pier. Tugboats ferried ashore the passengers and crew. Only then was it realized that Galváo had captured and controlled the big liner for twelve days with a tiny rebel force of 28 men-during some night watches as few as a dozen rebels must have been on duty. Brazilian marines took over the ship to guard against sabotage or an attempt to scuttle. The rebels stacked their arms in the lounge and, as he surrendered with full military honors, Galv...
Running Faucets. Safe on shore, the Santa Maria's Portuguese captain admitted that no attempt had been made to recapture the ship, although he and his officers did go around turning on faucets in the hope of thwarting Galváo through a shortage of fresh water. He asserted that only 16 of the rebels were Portuguese, that the rest were Communist "ruffians and scoundrels" of assorted nationalities. Galváo cried that not one of his men was a "Communist, or even a sympathizer." His navigator, a 52-year-old Spaniard named Jorge Souto Mayor, told reporters...
...What had Galváo hoped to accomplish by his seizure of the Santa Maria? In his own orotund phrasing, he declared: "We desired to prove, and we did prove, that Dictator Salazar is not invulnerable. We beat him and we ridiculed him-him and his navy-before the entire free and Christian world. Tomorrow, when and wherever we face him, we will beat him once more." What Galváo proposed for Portugal was "land for those who work it and a house for those who live in it. We will liquidate large landed estates as we will liquidate...