Explorers discover WWII ship 81 years after Australia’s worst-ever maritime disaster | South China Morning Post

Undersea explorers have located the wreck of a Japanese transport ship that was torpedoed during World War II by Allied forces who did not realise it was carrying more than 1,000 prisoners of war. The Montevideo Maru was torpedoed on July 1, 1942, by a US submarine. Considered Australia’s worst-ever maritime disaste…

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