Wreck of the SS Rio Grande

From the Axis History Forum.

Mearns  claim to finding one of the deepest wrecks, the S.S. Rio Grande, a German blockade runner sunk by US  naval ships in 1944.  Discovered in 1996, the Rio Grande  is on the floor of the South Atlantic at a depth of 5762 meters.. "The [Sydney] wreck is nowhere as deep as the Rio Grande," he says.

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Reply:  The Bergenland was sunk a few days later off Brazil.

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Reply:  The ship was sighted by a plane from the Omaha, then sunk by artillery fire from the Jouett on the night of 2nd/3rd January 1944 somewhere west of Ascension Island in the South Atlantic.

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Reply:  Approximately  55 miles (89 k) off Brazil.

--GreGen