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- Wreck from the Battle of Midway. The Japanese aircraft carrier Kaga is only the second wreck discovered from the Battle of Midway, the June 1942 clash against a Japanese attack that was decisively won by the U.S; the other is the wreck of the American aircraft carrier USS Yorktown.
- Dutch submarines near Malaysia. Two Dutch submarines that sank in Southeast Asia during World War II now seem to have disappeared, probably at the hands of illegal salvagers.
- Sammy B in the Philippine Sea. The American destroyer USS Samuel B. Roberts, nicknamed the "Sammy B," was discovered in the Philippine Sea in 2022 at a depth of 22,916 feet (6,985 meters), making it the deepest known shipwreck in the world.
- USS Johnston found deep underwater. Until the Sammy B was located, the world's deepest known shipwreck was that of the USS Johnston, a destroyer that was also sunk during the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
Dec 28, 2018 · The map above shows many (but not all of) of the ships sunk during World War 2. The map was created by Rean Monfils and combines the Geographic Information System (GIS) database of Asian Pacific shipwrecks with the Atlantic, Mediterranean and Indian Ocean (AMIO) WWII shipwreck database.
Jan 26, 2015 · Titanic sank in 1912 and remained undiscovered on the ocean floor for 73 years until 1985. The ocean doesn’t disclose its secrets easily. Here is story of top 10 Shipwrecks of WWII that are yet to be discovered on the ocean floor.
- USS Gambier Bay (CVE-73) was a Casablanca class escort aircraft carrier with a displacement of 7,900 tons. 50 of these carriers were planned and co...
- USS Lexington (CV-2) was a Lexington-class early aircraft carrier built in the 1920s. She was the lead ship among two of her kind ever built. Lexin...
- It was the only one ship of her class, a modified Soryu design built for IJN (Imperial Japanese Navy). Japanese word Hiryū means ‘Flying Dragon’. H...
World War II shipwrecks in the English Channel (107 P)
Jul 17, 2015 · World War II was the single, most significant loss of a ship in a comparatively short period the world has ever seen. A map below has been created by Rean Monfils to gather data on World War II shipwrecks across the world.
Dec 6, 2022 · More than 3,800 ships were sunk during World War II across the Pacific, each now holding the potential for catastrophic environmental fallout. Many of these shipwrecks contain a potentially devastating threat: Thousands of tons of oil and an unknown quantity of bombs and chemical weapons.
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Sep 22, 2023 · In June of 1942, thousands of American and Japanese forces faced off in the Pacific Ocean in a deadly World War II conflict known as the Battle of Midway.
