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Montevideo Maru ( Japanese: もんてびでお丸) was a merchant ship of the Empire of Japan. Launched in 1926, it was pressed into service as a military transport during World War II.
Apr 22, 2023 · Japanese transport ship SS Montevideo Maru sank with about 979 Australian troops and civilians on July 1, 1942, off the coast of the Philippines. It was torpedoed by an American submarine, which did not know it was carrying prisoners of war and civilians captured in Rabaul.
The Montevideo Maru was a Japanese passenger vessel used by the Imperial Japanese Navy to transport troops and prisoners during the Second World War. It was sunk by an American submarine in July 1942, killing over 1,000 people, mostly Australian soldiers and civilians.
Apr 22, 2023 · Deep-sea explorers have found the wreck of a Japanese transport ship which sank off the Philippines, killing nearly 1,000 Australian troops and civilians in World War Two. It was Australia's worst...
May 1, 2023 · Learn about the worst maritime disaster in Australian history, the sinking of Montevideo Maru in 1942. Find out the details of the vessel, the passengers, the submarine attack, the memorial and the discovery of the wreck.
Apr 22, 2023 · The Montevideo Maru was discovered off the northwest coast of the Philippines’ Luzon island at a depth of more than 4,000 meters (13,000ft) in the South China Sea, Australian Deputy Prime...
Apr 22, 2023 · A U.S. Navy submarine attacked the ship, the Montevideo Maru, in July 1942 as it traveled unescorted from Rabaul, a port in the Australian territory of New Guinea that had been captured by Japan...
