Divers find WWII wreck on which nearly 1,000 Australians died
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese breaks the news of the discovery of the Montevideo Maru, a World War 2 Japanese transport ship, which was torpedoed off the Philippines killing nearly 1,000 Australians aboard. – EPA pic, April 22, 2023.
DEEP-SEA explorers said today they had located the wreck of the Montevideo Maru, a World War 2 Japanese transport ship which was torpedoed off the Philippines killing nearly 1,000 Australians aboard. The ship – sunk on July 1, 1942 by a US submarine whose crew did not realise it carried prisoners of war – was found at a depth of more than 4km, said the maritime archaeology group Silentworld Foundation, which organised the mission.
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