The wreck of a Japanese transport ship that sank in 1942 with more than 1,000 Allied prisoners-of-war on board has been discovered near the Philippines.
The wreck of the Montevideo Maru, a Japanese transport ship that sank in World War II and claimed the lives of more than 1,000 Allied prisoners-of-war on board, has been discovered in the deep waters of the South China Sea.
Silentworld coordinated the latest expedition with support from Australia's Department of Defence; Fugro, a Dutch deep-sea survey firm that supplied the ship and equipment for the search; and the Rabaul and Montevideo Maru Society, which maintains a website for the relatives of those killed in the disaster."We've been working on it for five years," Mullen said.
Mullen said the searchers were able to confirm it was the wreck of the Montevideo Maru by comparing the sonar images from the AUV to blueprints of the ship. On June 30, 1942, the Montevideo Maru was en route to the Chinese island of Hainan, which was then occupied by the Japanese, when it was spotted by an American submarine, USS Sturgeon.
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