What is the history of this ship? On April 18, deep-sea explorers managed to find the “Montevideo Maru”, a ship that was sunk during World War IImore than 80 years ago.
They found a sunken ship in World War II
According to information from DWdeep-sea explorers found on April 18 last the remains of a ship that was sunk with torpedoes during World War II.
Yes, according to the experts, it was near the Philippines that this ship of Japanese origin was attacked, in which more than a thousand prisoners, mostly Australians, died.
In fact, they commented that this vessel called “Montevideo Maru” It was more than four thousand meters deep in the South China Sea, 110 kilometers from the Philippine island of Luzon.according to information from the Silentworld Foundation for Underwater Archaeology.
How did they find this ancient ship?
This ship that a US submarine sank on July 1, 1942, presumably unaware that it was carrying prisoners of war, it was discovered after 12 days of searching with an underwater drone with sonar.
In this regard, Captain Roger Turner, director of the expedition, told the AFP news agency that he and his team believe that this vessel was hit by two torpedoes.
After this the ship broke in two, so the bow and stern were about 500 meters from each other on the ocean floor.
It should be noted that, according to information from the Silentworld Foundation, about 1,60 people of 14 different nationalities died on this shipincluding 979 Australians, of whom 850 were in the military.
Yes, according to your data, they had been captured months earlier by Japanese forces in Papua New Guinea.
