Cika wannan jumla: A ranar 10 ga Oktoba, 1910,
An cire mulkin mallaka kuma an maye gurbinsa da Jamhuriyar Portuguese ta Farko. Sabuwar tsarin siyasa ya gabatar da shirin sojan ruwa mai cike da buri, wanda ya hango gina manyan jiragen ruwa guda uku, da jiragen ruwa guda uku, da masu hallaka 12 da jiragen ruwa shida. Kodayake majalisar ta amince da shi a shekarar 1912, shirin ya zo kusan babu abin da ya faru, galibi saboda rashin kudade. Akasin haka, a lokacin Jamhuriyar Farko, rundunar sojan ruwa ta shiga wani lokaci na rashin kulawa, sannu a hankali tana rasa wani ɓangare na iyawarta, a cikin wani tsari wanda ya kai ga halin da za a kira shi a ƙarshen 1920s a matsayin kusan "sifili na ruwa".