Wreck of "Rio Grande"

[Valtoro]

Has there been any photos published of this wreck?

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

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2005/02/ ... 19501.html

[Simon Gunson]

Anybody know the wreck's location please ?

or for that matter where the Bergenland was sunk a few days later off Brazil ?

[Biblejohn]

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.
http://www.wlb-stuttgart.de/seekrieg/44-01.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Omaha_(CL-4)

[Graham Clayton]

Anybody know the wreck's location please ?

Simon,
Approximately 55 miles (89 km) off Northeast Brazil.