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Description: Video footage of the wreck S.S. City Of Cairo, laying at 5150m. She was discovered by Deep Ocean Search in 2012.nnThe SS City of Cairo (Captain William Rogerson) was a mixed cargo and passenger ship belonging to Ellerman Lines and was on a voyage from Bombay to England, via Cape Town and Recife, Brazil, unescorted, in late 1942.nnShe carried 296 souls of which 136 were passengers and a mixed cargo including some 100 tons of silver coins belonging to the UK Treasury.nnShe was spotted by U-68 on t