Author: ZEIGER, HENRY A.
Title: The Seizing of the Santa Maria
Description: New York, NY: Popular Library, Inc, 1961. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. Mass Market PB. This is a mass market paperback book. The book is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book covers have some beginning bumping and rubbing, along with several creases to the rear panel of the book cover. The text pages are clean and bright. "Henrique Galvão was a Portuguese military officer and political opponent of Portuguese dictator António de Oliveira Salazar, the head of the Estado Novo regime. Galvão had carefully planned the hijacking in Caracas with the intention of waging war until Salazar was overthrown in Portugal and the overseas territories were subsequently offered independence. He planned on using the hijacking as a way to bring attention to the Estado Novo in Portugal and the related fascist regime in Francoist Spain. The rebels had boarded the ship in La Guaira (Venezuela) and in Willemstad (Curaçao) , disguised as passengers, bringing aboard suitcases that had secret compartments to hide their weapons. In the early hours of 22 January, rebels, along with Henrique Galvao, seized the ship and shut down all communication. One officer (3rd Pilot Nascimento Costa) was killed and several others wounded in the process of taking control of the ship. The rebels forced Captain Mário Simões Maia and his crew to divert the ship eastwards. The next day they called at Saint Lucia, then a British possession, to drop off Costa's body and some injured crewmen in a launch; but, speaking only Portuguese, the sailors were unable to successfully communicate what had happened to their ship until after it had left. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good .

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