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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 |
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