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On 31 July 1947, a day after sailing from Rio de Janeiro for Europe, oil spilled on the ship’s boilers, causing an engine-room fire that quickly spread through the first class cabins and killed 27. The ship was towed from its position off [[Cabo Frio]] into Rio de Janeiro on 1 August 1947. The ship had been carrying 1,060 passengers bound for [[Lisbon]], Naples, and [[Marseille]], along with 500 crew members, and had been scheduled to carry Italian refugees on its return voyage.<ref name=NYT-10to20 /><ref name=NYT-shipfire>{{cite news | url = http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50E13F73E5C107A93C0A91783D85F428485F9 | format = fee | title = Ship fire toll now is 27 | work = The New York Times | date = 2 August 1946 | accessdate = 2008-01-22 | page = 5 }}</ref>
In 1953, ''Duque de Caxias'' was converted into a [[training ship]], and in August of that year began a European and Mediterranean training cruise, which included a 12-day visit to New York in March 1954 as part of its homeward leg.<ref name=NYT-Skipper>{{cite news | url = http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F70617FE3C5C177B93C3A91788D85F408585F9 | format = fee | title = Skipper of Brazilian Training Ship Is Greeted Here | work = The New York Times | date = 1 March 1954 | accessdate = 2008-01-22 | page = 39 }}</ref> The ship visited the United States again in December 1955, with [[midshipman|midshipmen]] aboard who were touring the [[United States Naval Academy]] and who were honored at a cocktail party by the Brazilian Ambassador, João Carlos Muniz, at the Brazilian Embassy in [[Washington, D.C.]]<ref>{{cite news | title = Dinner parties on embassy row | work = [[The Washington Post|The Washington Post and Times-Herald]] | date = 15 December 1955 | page = 73 }}</ref> In October the following year, ''Duque de Caxias'' called at Philadelphia, and the new Brazilian Ambassador [[Ernani do Amaral Peixoto]]—also an Admiral in the Brazilian Navy—and his wife sponsored a tea dance in honor of Captain Antonio Andrade, other officers of the ship, and the midshipmen aboard the ship; Peixoto had traveled to Philadelphia to greet Andrade, a former [[naval attaché]] at the embassy.<ref>{{cite news | last = McNair | first = Marie | title = Fechtelers plan 'anchorage' here | work = The Washington Post and Times-Herald | date = 26 October 1956 | page = D2 }}</ref> The ship was [[Ship decommissioning|decommissioned]] 13 April 1959, and finally scrapped in 1963.<ref name=duque />
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