 "Ypiranga's" sister ship "Corcovada" was similarly outfitted.In September 1910, "Ypiranga" carried the German crews from the battleships and back from the Ottoman Empire, after the ships had been sold to the Ottoman Navy.The ousted Mexican dictator Porfirio Díaz, accompanied by his family, boarded "Ypiranga" at the docks of Veracruz, on Wednesday, May 31, 1911, bound for Europe.