German blockade runner Rio Grande outward bound in 1941

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Transport Number I. Name ship Rio Grande. Company (H.D.S.G.) Date departure 21 September 1941. Harbour which was left Bordeaux, France. Destination Far East. Date arrival 9 December 1941. Part of 1. Action “Transport.”(1)

Note

1. Part of the Belgrano-class. Ordered in April 1938, launched by Howaldtswerke, Hamburg, Germany with yard number 777 on 17 January 1939, commissioned on 92 April 1939 and scuttled by own crew on 4 January 1944 to prevent capture by the American light cruiser USS Omaha and destroyer uSS Jouett. 

Source

Bundesarchiv RM 7/1419 Ausarbeitung "Wirtschaftsfahrten im Zweiten Weltkrieg" (Zusammenstellung der Fahrten von Blockadebrechern nach Ostasien, 1941-1945).