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Montevideo Maru: Australia finds wreck of Japanese WW2 disaster ship

BBC News

By Laurence Peter
 
April 22, 2023
 

Deep-sea explorers have found the wreck of a Japanese transport ship which sank off the Philippines, killing nearly 1,000 Australian troops and civilians in World War Two.

It was Australia’s worst maritime disaster: a US submarine torpedoed the ship unaware that it was packed with prisoners captured in Papua New Guinea.

The Montevideo Maru sank in July 1942.

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