Posted on 05/31/2025 12:40:36 PM PDT by MAGA2017
In the depths of the ocean, there are countless undiscovered shipwrecks. Ranging from old sailing vessels, to massive cargo haulers. Most of these wouldn't get even a bit of interest.
However, when you limit yourself to *warships*, well, that changes. And in today's video, we'll be looking at another five missing wrecks. Consider this something of a sequel to the video I made a couple years back, after Nautilus visited Midway.
In light of their upcoming Guadalcanal survey, this felt fitting.
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Japanese battleship Kongo Japanese cruiser Suzuya Japanese aircraft carrier Zuikaku USS Oklahoma German cruiser Lutzow
Advice to anyone who finds a crew member still alive: don’t trust them.
Kongo is interesting. Japanese battleship Kongo was built in 1911 by Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering at Barrow-in-Furness. The Brits were arming everyone who wanted to fight Russians even back then. The Czar was still in charge then. The Brits have a mental illness.
Kongo was at the Battle of Leyte Gulf where our destroyers and destroyer escorts went up in a direct fight against battleships.
They were facing British weapons.
And Zuikaku was the last Pearl Harbor carrier to finally get killed and sunk. Also one of the biggest successes of the TBF Avenger torpedo bomber.
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