MV Monte Pascoal (1930)

Monte Pascoal was a German Monte-class ocean liner built in 1930 by Blohm & Voss, Hamburg for the Hamburg-Südamerikanische Dampfschifffahrts-Gesellschaft (HSDG).

Subsequently, refloated, she was seized by the Allies post war and was scuttled in the Skaggerak with a cargo of gas bombs in 1946.

[1] The ship made her maiden voyage on 26 January, sailing from Hamburg to ports on the Río de la Plata, South America.

[5] In the Spanish Civil War Monte Pascoal repatriated 226 German volunteers from Sevilla back to Hamburg in June 1937.

[6] In January 1939, a Luftwaffe Heinkel He 115 aircraft, registration D-AEHF, suffered an engine failure over the Atlantic Ocean.

Departing on 10 September without passengers and two of her crew having refused to sail,[8] she successfully returned to Germany, arriving at Hamburg on 14 October 1939.

The Heinkel He115 aircraft that was recovered by Monte Pascoal .