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02-12-06, 06:50 PM | #1 |
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Warship Wrecks - Found Or Not Found?
A little off topic, but have any of the following capital warship wrecks been found?
HMS Courageous HMS Glorious HMS Barham HMS Eagle HMS Hermes USS Oklahoma USS Hornet USS Wasp USS Langley USS Indianapolis USS Houston IJN Musashi IJN Fuso IJN Yamashiro IJN Kongo Or any Japanese carriers or cruisers, or Italian capital warships? I know the following ships have been found: KMS Bismarck KMS Scharnhorst KMS Blucher HMS Hood HMS Prince of Wales HMS Repulse HMS Ark Royal USS Yorktown USS Independence USS Quincy USS Northampton USS Atlanta HMAS Canberra IJN Yamato IJN Mutsu IJN Kirishima The following wrecks were scrapped post-war : IJN Haruna IJN Ise IJN Hyuga IJN Amagi IJN Oyodo IJN Tone IJN Aoba KMS Deutschland KMS Admiral Hipper KMS Seydlitz Italian BB Caillo Duillo Italian CV's Aquila and Sparviero And the following are still in shallow water: USS Arizona USS Saratoga HMS Royal Oak KMS Graf Spee KMS Prinz Eugen IJN Nagato IJN Sakawa I also heard that Robert Ballard searched for the USS Lexington and the four IJN carriers from Midway but did not find anything except a piece of the Kaga's flight deck. He also didn't find the Astoria, Vincennes, or Hiei (or any Japanese cruisers) at Guadalcanal. I have also probable neglected to mention many, such as German and British light cruisers (the Edinburgh was found, for example). And I have never been able to figure out what happened to the Graf Spee and Graf Zeppelin - there have been many accounts of their final fate (target, scrap, lost under tow, buried?). Forgive me - I just felt like listing a lot of warships. :P |
02-12-06, 08:43 PM | #2 |
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Graf Spee was scuttled in the River Plate. There's a thread about it right now...
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02-12-06, 08:58 PM | #3 |
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I know all about the Graf Spee - I've seen the thread too. Interesting.
I know what happened to all of the ships which I mentioned (i.e. how they were sunk). What I was wondering was if anyone knew which ones had been located on the ocean floor. |
02-12-06, 09:18 PM | #4 |
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The heavy cruiser Houston must have been located in the Sunda Strait. The son of one of the surviving crewmembers dived on the wreck.
http://www.usshouston.org/news.htm |
02-12-06, 10:09 PM | #5 |
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Was taking a look about concerning USS Saratoga and found this interesting history:
http://www.answers.com/topic/uss-saratoga check out the pic at the bottom of her sinking... |
02-13-06, 09:39 AM | #6 |
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You forgot the 2 world war veteran HMS Warspite
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Hmm...I wonder if she's still radioactive. Any of those divers come up glowing?
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02-13-06, 10:59 AM | #8 |
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Yes I did forget the Warspite - she was broken up in situ.
The warships in Bikini Atoll are no longer radioactive (I am really sure they are not, anyway). They are now a popular tourist attraction for scuba diving. I'm not a scuba diver myself, but maybe someone here is, and has been there? http://www.bikiniatoll.com/divetour1.html I also forgot to list the USS Arkansas in my list. It's too bad the surviving ships from Operation Crossroads were not sunk in shallow water as well - most were scuttled in deep water including the New York, Nevada, Independence, Pensacola, and Salt Lake City. The Independence was accidently located during some kind of research expedition near San Francisco around 1990. I believe the Pennsylvania was scuttled in relatively shallow water near Kwajalein, but she has also been reported to have been sunk off of Hawaii with the New York and Nevada. |
02-13-06, 11:33 AM | #9 |
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A little off-topic: What´s that 'leaking' from the USS Arizona??
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02-13-06, 11:46 AM | #10 |
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02-13-06, 11:58 AM | #11 |
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Arizona has the bunkers full when was hit. Actually, my last time in Pearl (around 1994) I saw petrol bubbles coming from the wreck. Strange, if you think the ship was destroyed in 1941!
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02-13-06, 12:20 PM | #12 |
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Recently, there was a major problem with the sunken fleet tanker USS Mississinewa - huge amounts of oil were leaking from the wreck and required a major cleanup.
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02-13-06, 12:41 PM | #13 | |
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02-13-06, 01:17 PM | #14 |
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someone here said those leaking oils from Arizona are called tears from the dead or something of that nature. obviously a metaphor.
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02-13-06, 01:54 PM | #15 |
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There has been concern in the past few years, that as the ship begins to break up (hull is rusting away), there may be a major oil spill. Apparently, it's fuel bunkers were full, when it went down. Saw a program some months ago, that showed Navy divers doing an examination of the ship to determine it's condition.
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