Click on the "Marine Engineering Log" magazine cover above to read the story about the construction and new features on the ship. Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader.  (Courtesy of Captain Harold Vanderploeg.)

Click on the photo above to read many pages of suppliers' ads regarding construction of the ship.  Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader.  (Courtesy of Captain Harold Vanderploeg.)

"Wow!  Look at her - She's yare."  The S.S. Brasil as seen from the bridge of her sister,  S.S. Argentina.  (Courtesy of Captain Ed Newman.)

September 1958, Rio de Janeiro - Commodore Simmons welcomes the President of Brasil, Dr. Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira, aboard the S.S. Brasil.   The ship was on her maiden voyage and President Kubitscheck and his wife were aboard for a grand Maiden-Voyage-Banquet.   ("Rio Weekly," October 10, 1958)

A couple of pages regarding the S.S. Brasil's maiden voyage.  ("Rio Weekly," October 10, 1958)

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