Niterói and Independência and the tanker Almirante Gastão Motta. The ships left Fortaleza in the 17th of May, arriving at Port-au-Prince in the 30th. The task force left the Caribbean by June 7th, passing by Curaçao, Belém and Maceió on their return trip towards Rio, where they would arrive by the 8th of July. In her second voyage to Haiti, Rio de Janeiro left her namesake in the 11th of May 2009, during the operation Haiti VII. The materiel she carried included over 70 Army and Marine Corps vehicles such as APCs, backhoes, trucks, jeeps and ambulances, as well as 26 restroom and habitable containers and 5 refrigerated containers, totalling over 700 tons of equipment. The ship would make a stop in Fortaleza by the 17th and 18th of May before arriving in Port-au-Prince in the 29th. During her return trip in early June, she was diverted to the area roughly 600 nautical miles northeast of Natal to participate in the search effort for the wreckage of Air France Flight 447. She would arrive back to Rio de Janeiro in the 2nd of July. After 22 years of service to the Brazilian Navy, she was decommissioned in the 15th of June 2012, eventually being scrapped in 2014 in Alang. Gallery References External links hazegray.org: USS Alamo navysite.de: USS Alamo Texas Navy hosted by The Portal to Texas History. A survey of the Texas Navy during the Texas Revolution and the Republic Era. Includes maps, sketches, a list of ships of the Texas Navy, and a chronology. Also includes photographs of 20th century U.S. Navy ships named after Texans or Texas locations. See photos of the USS Alamo. In Portuguese, featuring a detailed record of her Brazilian Navy service. Thomaston-class dock landing ships Ships built in Pascagoula, Mississippi 1956 ships Cold War amphibious warfare vessels of the United States Vietnam War amphibious warfare vessels of the United States Ceará-class dock landing ships Amphibious warfare vessels of Brazil