As recently as January 2024, Johor Police’s unexploded ordnance team was called out to deal with aged, rusted artillery shells found at the scrapyard where Chuan Hong 68 offloaded her cargo. This included two 130mm shells - roughly equivalent to a 5.25-inch gun, of which HMS Prince of Wales had eight - and 55 aging 40mm shells, the standard size for the “pom-pom” antiaircraft guns used by the Royal Navy in WWII.
The MMEA has not released an update on the case over the course of the intervening 12 months, and Chuan Hong 68 has repeatedly returned to the same operating area northeast of the Singapore Strait, often disappearing from AIS for weeks at a time. This is the same region
Those are very unstable at this point...
Be a shame, if that boat “just exploded” on the way from the wrecks...
Didn’t the Prince of Wales literally explode with only 3 survivors. Can’t believe there was much left of her.
In May 2023, local residents obtained video of the vessel unloading what appeared to be a large cannon, dripping with mud, at a Malaysian scrapyard...This was in the text. Looks like it was one of the cannons from the HMS Prince of Wales.