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Manuel Maria Sarmento Rodrigues (15 June 1899 – 1 August 1979) was a naval officer, colonist and professor. He was born in 1899 in
Manuel Maria Sarmento Rodrigues (15 June 1899 – 1 August 1979) was a naval officer, colonist and professor. He was born in 1899 in Freixo de Espada à Cinta
Freixo de Espada à Cinta (), sometimes erroneously called Freixo de Espada Cinta (an archaism), is a municipality in the northeastern region of Portugal, near the border with Spain, along the Douro River Valley. The population in 2011 was 3,780, ...
, Portugal
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. He attended a secondary school in Bragança and attended the University of Coimbra
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. He entered the Naval School
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and concluded the marine course in 1921.
As a junior officer, he embarked in the '' República'' on board which he was accompanied by Gago Coutinho
Carlos Viegas Gago Coutinho, GCTE, GCC, generally known simply as Gago Coutinho (; 17 February 1869 – 18 February 1959) was a Portuguese geographer, cartographer, naval officer, historian and aviator. An aviation pioneer, Gago Coutinho and Sac ...
and Sacadura Cabral through the South Atlantic
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and in the '' Lis'', he was the aide-de-camp of the Governor-General of Portuguese India and on board the transport ''Pêro de Alenquer
Pêro de Alenquer was a 15th-century Portuguese explorer of the African coast.
Pêro was born in Alenquer.
He accompanied Bartolomeu Dias on his journey around the Cape of Good Hope in 1487/1488. He was the pilot of Vasco da Gama's flags ...
''. He gave assistance to the victims of the 1926 Horta earthquake The 1926 Horta earthquake ( pt, Sismo da Horta de 1926/Terramoto da Horta), occurred at 8:42 a.m. (local time) on 31 August. It caused the destruction of many of the buildings located in the city of Horta, the central group of the Portuguese au ...
. He travelled extensively to the Portuguese colonies of the Far East and Africa.
In 1936, he was part of the Hydrographic Mission of the Adjacent Islands. He was put in charge in the survey of the seas of the Azores
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and the Madeira
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islands.
In 1941, he assumed the command of the torpedo-boat destroyer ''Lima
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'', which he kept until 1945. Under his command, the ''Lima'' participated in various operations of rescues of torpedo ships in the seas of the Azores during World War II
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. He later attended Escola Superior Colonial.
As a senior official, he became a colonial administrator, being the Governor of Portuguese Guinea between 1946 and 1949. In 1950, he became governor general of Salazar as Ministry of the Colonies (partly in 1951, Ministry of Ultramar), having these implemented functions on the vast reform of the Portuguese colonial administration, he visited the Far East
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The ter ...
, Southeast Asia
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and Africa
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. Between 1961 and 1964, he was governor general of Portuguese Mozambique.
He died in Lisbon
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on 1 August 1979 at the age of 80.
He is an author of '' Ancoradouros das Ilhas dos Açores'' (''Anchorage of the Azores Islands'') and ''No Governo da Guiné: Discursos e Afirmações'' (1949).
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