USS Indianapolis (CA 35) located

[Subnuts]

Not a lot of details yet.
https://www.paulallen.com/wreckage-f...eck-expedition

[mapuc]

Seventy-two years after two torpedoes fired from a Japanese submarine sunk cruiser USS Indianapolis (CA-35), the ship’s wreckage was found resting on the seafloor on Saturday – more than 18,000 feet below the Pacific Ocean’s surface.

https://news.usni.org/2017/08/19/uss...wreckage-found

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[Mr Quatro]

This is a story that has been told many times in books and such ... time for a movie about this tragic event. I think it took years before the captain was exonerated. I also remember something about the USS Batfish SS 310 sinking three Japanese subs and one of them was the sub that sank the Indianapolis. I think ...

[bracer]

Nice find by mr. Allen, I hope it brings peace to the relatives.

Originally Posted by Mr Quatro

This is a story that has been told many times in books and such ... time for a movie about this tragic event. I think it took years before the captain was exonerated. I also remember something about the USS Batfish SS 310 sinking three Japanese subs and one of them was the sub that sank the Indianapolis. I think ...

There is a movie called USS Indianapolis, with Nicolas Cage, not one that I would recommend though.

[Jimbuna]

Hopefully left to rest as a war grave.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Mr Quatro

time for a movie about this tragic event. I think it took years before the captain was exonerated.

Originally Posted by bracer

There is a movie called USS Indianapolis, with Nicolas Cage, not one that I would recommend though.

There was a TV movie called Mission of the Shark, with Stacy Keach and Richard Thomas. Low budget, and I had a few technical complaints, but overall it wasn't bad. It also includes the Captain's court martial.

Originally Posted by Mr Quatro

I also remember something about the USS Batfish SS 310 sinking three Japanese subs and one of them was the sub that sank the Indianapolis. I think ...

The Japanese captain who torpedoed Indianapolis spoke at Captain McVay's trial, so his boat wasn't sunk.

[Aktungbby]

OF some interest: the big clue 7/27/2016; http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/newreply.php?do=newreply&noquote=1&p=2507601

More than 70 years after the cruiser USS Indianapolis (CA-35) was sunk, a new clue discovered by a Navy researcher could give expeditions hunting for the missing ship a better location to look, the service said this week.

[iambecomelife]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

There was a TV movie called Mission of the Shark, with Stacy Keach and Richard Thomas. Low budget, and I had a few technical complaints, but overall it wasn't bad. It also includes the Captain's court martial.


The Japanese captain who torpedoed Indianapolis spoke at Captain McVay's trial, so his boat wasn't sunk.

Good comments. Yes, I-58 survived the war and was surrendered by Capt. Hashimoto. If it was sunk at all it was in a post-WWII training exercise, like they did with some decommissioned UBoats. But Conway's Fighting Ships definitely says I-58 was NOT a wartime loss.

I liked "Mission of the Shark" too. Low budget, but the model of the indy they used was adequate, IIRC. It really showed the chaos of abandoning ship, and the misery of waiting for rescue, in my opinion.

I have been wondering if the bow and stern have both been found? It looks like the bow probably was located.... judging by the picture of the anchor and the pennant number 35. Several accounts say she was blown in two (not in half, but broken off in front of the bow turrets - maybe 20% of the ship). It would be interesting if Ken Marschall or another artist could paint a portrait of the wreckage distribution - he has done excellent ones for Bismarck and Titanic.

[iambecomelife]

Found a new image of the main armament, as it looks today....there is very little marine growth for a wreck this old. You can see one of the turret doors open....very eerie.

Based on the picture of the anchor, this seems to conform both the forward section (with anchor, of course) and aft sections were located. Survivors said that she broke in two forward of the bow turrets, so all three turrets are attached to the aft section.