German blockade runner Rio Grande homeward bound in 1943

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Transport Number -. Name ship Rio Grande. Company Hamburg-Südamerikanische Dampfschiffahrtsgesellschaft, Hamburg, Germany (H.S.D.G.). Date departure 4 October 1943. Harbour which was left Kobe, Japan. Date lost 4 January 1944.(1)

Note

1. Launched by Howaldtswerke, Hamburg, Germany with yard number 777 on 17 January 1939, commissionned on 29 April 1939 and sunk by American light cuiser USS Omaha and destroyer USS Jouett on the Atlantic on 3 January 1944.

Source

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