Luís António de Magalhães Correia or Luís António de Magalhães Corrêa (30 June 1873 - 29 September 1960) was a Portuguese naval officer, becoming a vice-admiral in 1937. He is also notable as a government minister and colonial administrator. From 1928 to 1930 he was Navy Minister and governor of

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and from 1945 to 1948 administrator of the

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. He also served as interim

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Life

He was born in

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, volunteering for the

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aged just 14 and later attending the Royal Military College. He transferred to the navy, attending the Naval School and passing out top of his class. At the end of his naval training, on 19 May 1891, aged 18, he was promoted from cadet to guarda-marinha, starting his naval career on the frigate ''

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'' before transferring to the gunboat ''Diu'', then commanded by

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Manuel de Azevedo Gomes and attached to Portugal's naval forces in the Far East. In 1893, he was still aboard the ''Diu'' but now at the rank of

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when unrest broke out in

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. Then stationed in

, the ship was sent to Timor at full-speed, where it joined the bombardment of

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on 21 June that year. For his conduct on that posting he was granted the Order of the Tower and Sword on 3 November 1893. Appointed port captain for

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, in 1897 he was promoted to first lieutenant and given command of the Gaza Squadron of Portugal's Indian Ocean Naval Division. During that period he was also appointed governor of the District of Manica and Sofala in Mozambique. Whilst in the Indian Ocean also served aboard the gunboat ''Faro'', the launches ''Capelo'' and ''Serpa Pinto'', the transport ship ''India'' and the ironclad ''

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''. On his return to Lisbon, he was made an adjutant to the Naval Ministry on 1 July 1907. He then became a torpedo instructor and in 1910 was sent to

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in north-east Italy to join the sea trials of the Portuguese submarine '' Espadarte''. He was then sent back to Macau to command the gunboat ''Pátria'' both there and in

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and Timor and whilst on that station he was also Macau's port captain and chief of naval staff. He was also appointed

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in 1922 by president

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and served in that post until the following year. That period was particularly difficult for the Portuguese imperial government there due to strong Bolshevik influence felt in southern China, which led to some armed attacks. He was promoted to frigate-captain in 1923 and put in command of the torpedo boats ''Mineiro'' and ''Fulminante'', the destroyers ''Tejo'' and ''Tâmega'' and the cruiser ''Vasco da Gama''. In 1926 he was appointed the far eastern colonies' representative on the Conselho do Comércio Exterior de Portugal, exercising the roles of Director of Naval Stores and Naval Chief of Staff. Backing the

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, he was persuaded to join the cabinet on 8 July 1929 as Naval Minister, holding that post until 21 January 1930. During his term of office he received the ''Almirante Schultz'' on 6 October and accompanied the Portuguese president general

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on his official visit to Spain on 17 October - for the second event he also became

for ten days after the death of the role's last holder

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. His role as Naval Minister was renewed when

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replaced

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as head of the cabinet, holding it until 5 July 1932 and also replacing

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as interim foreign minister. Even under Ferraz he had begun to planning a restructuring and re-equipping of the Portuguese Navy, which became known as the Portuguese Naval Programme and was put into effect from 1931 onwards. It was the nation's biggest and best-planned naval rearmament of the 20th century and left a decisive mark on the fleet until around 1975. In 1930 he was promoted to rear-admiral.

Honours

Order of the Tower and Sword The Ancient and Most Noble Military Order of the Tower and of the Sword, of the Valour, Loyalty and Merit ( pt, Antiga e Muito Nobre Ordem Militar da Torre e Espada, do Valor, Lealdade e Mérito), before 1910 Royal Military Order of the Tower an ...

, Knight (Cavaleiro) *

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, Grand Cross (Grã-Cruz) * Ordem Militar de Avis, Grand Cross (Grã-Cruz) *

Order of the Colonial Empire The Order of the Colonial Empire (Portuguese:"Ordem do Império Colonial") was a Portugal, Portuguese Order (decoration), established on 13 April 1932 as a colonial order of knighthood, to reward services by soldiers and civilians in the Portugues ...

, Grand Officer (Grande-Oficial)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Correia, Luis Military personnel from Lisbon 1873 births 1960 deaths Portuguese admirals Governors of Macau Foreign ministers of Portugal Naval ministers of Portugal