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Deep-sea explorers have discovered the wreck of a transport ship torpedoed by a US submarine during World War II, killing nearly 1,000 Australian prisoners of war aboard.
Deep-sea explorers said Saturday they had located the wreck of a World War II Japanese transport ship, the Montevideo Maru, which was torpedoed off the Philippines killing nearly 1,000 Australians aboard. The ship -- sunk on July 1, 1942, by a U.S. submarine whose crew did not realize it carried…
It was Australia's most disastrous event in its maritime history that killed 979 including at least 850 military people
SYDNEY: Deep-sea explorers said on Saturday (Apr 22) they had located the wreck of a World War II Japanese transport ship, the Montevideo Maru, which was torpedoed off the Philippines, killing nearly 1,000 Australians aboard. The ship - sunk on Jul 1, 1942, by a US submarine whose crew did not realise it c
The ship was sunk on 1 July, 1942, by a US submarine unaware it was carrying prisoners of war.