Wreck of WW2 Japanese ship found off Luzon

By Agence France-Presse

Apr 23, 2023 12:40 am

(UPDATE) DEEP-SEA explorers said Saturday they had located the wreck of a World War 2 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 US submarine whose crew did not realize it carried prisoners of war — was found at a depth of more than four kilometers (2.5 miles), said the maritime archaeology group Silentworld Foundation, which organized the mission.

This handout photo taken in 1941 and obtained on April 22, 2023 from the Australian War Memorial shows the Japanese transport ship Montevideo Maru at sea. - Deep-sea explorers said on April 22 that 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. (Photo by Handout / Australian War Memorial / AFP)

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