Nearly 80 years after its sinking, the Brazilian Navy has identified the wreckage of the Vital de Oliveira. The ship was ...

A WORLD War Two warship mystery has finally been solved after the wreck snagged on a fisherman’s net. The Vital de Oliveira had disappeared for 81 years after it was torpedoed by the ...

On July 19, 1944, the German submarine U-861 torpedoed the Vital de Oliveira, sinking it and killing about 100 of the 270 ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL––According to a CNN report, the Brazilian Navy confirmed the location of the shipwreck of Vital de ...

After more than 80 years hidden beneath the waves off Rio de Janeiro, the location of a Brazilian troop transport ship torpedoed and sunk by Nazi Germany was definitively confirmed by Brazil’s navy ...

Após mais de 80 anos, a Marinha do Brasil localizou o naufrágio do navio "Vital de Oliveira", torpedeado por submarino alemão na Segunda Guerra. A descoberta foi feita por acaso durante testes ...

Em 1944, o navio foi atingido por um projétil alemão e naufragou próximo à costa do Rio de Janeiro; quase um século depois, ...

About 100 lives were lost when the Vital de Oliveira went under in July 1944, out of about 270 people on board. The boat was transporting personnel and supplies along the Brazilian coast when it ...

A German submarine torpedoed the “Vital de Oliveira” in July 1944, killing some 100 of the 270 crew members onboard Sarah Kuta Daily Correspondent The Vital de Oliveira was discovered by ...

The wreck of the Vital de Oliveira was initially discovered in 2011 by a pair of brothers, Jose Luíz and Everaldo Popermeyer Meriguete. As recently as July, the Brazilian navy had told Brazil’s ...