[nickcarraway]

[nickcarraway]

Ping

[KC_Lion]

Ping!

[jmacusa]

These are the final resting places of those gallant sailors who went down with their ships. If these would -be grave robbers are going to desecrate these ship wrecks they should know these wrecks are highly susceptible to whole sections of the crumbling of what's left of the vessel itself and the bigger danger of unstable and potentially dangerous ordnance still on these ships.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***a propeller missing from the stern of the 242-metre-long Repulse, ***

I’ve read that the bronze propellers on the LUSITANIA disappeared several years back.

[hanamizu]

I remember reading somewhere (quite likely here on FR) that there is a demand for steel created before the atomic age. It apparently has important qualities (or lacks qualities) that steel from later times has.

[CodeToad]

There is very little left on these ships. They have rotted already. I’ve dove those waters plenty, and I’ve seen the insides and out of those ships. There is little left. When bodies or a safe is to be had we called the DoD who called the State Dept who called the owning country, and the owning country came for the bodies and the US Navy for the safes.

[abb]

Churchill’s writings still stick with me ever since I read them as a teenager 55 years ago.

https://winstonchurchill.org/publications/finest-hour/finest-hour-139/churchill-proceedings-prince-of-wales-and-repulse-churchills-veiled-threat-reconsidered/

“In all the war I never received a more direct shock. The reader of these pages will realize how many efforts, hopes, and plans foundered with these two ships. As I turned over and twisted in bed, the full horror of the news sank in upon me. There were no British or American capital ships in the Indian Ocean or the Pacific. … Over all this vast expanse of waters Japan was supreme, and we everywhere were weak and naked.”