released : 22 Apr 2023 at 09: 45 The Japanese transportation ship Montevideo Maru, which hasactually been situated by deep-sea explorers, was bring about 1,060 detainees of war when it was sunk by a UnitedStates submarine SYDNEY – Deep-sea explorers stated Saturday they had situated the wreck of a World War II Japanese transportation ship, the Montevideo Maru, which was torpedoed off the Philippines killing almost 1,000 Australians aboard. The ship — sunk on July 1, 1942, by a UnitedStates submarine whose team did not understand it brought detainees of war — was discovered at a depth of more than 4 kilometres (2.5 miles), stated the maritime archaeology group Silentworld Foundation, which arranged the objective. The sinking of the Montevideo Maru was Australia’s worst-ever maritime catastrophe, killing an approximated 979 Australian residents consistingof at least 850 soldiers. Civilians from 13 other nations were likewise aboard, the structure stated, taking the overall number of detainees eliminated to about 1,060. They hadactually been recorded a coupleof months earlier by Japanese forces in the fall of the seaside town of Rabaul in Papua New Guinea. “At long last, the resting location of the lost souls of the Montevideo Maru hasactually been discovered,” Prime Minister Anthony Albanese stated. “Among the 1,060 prisone
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