Wreckage from Australia's worst maritime disaster found 81 years later | ABC News

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The ship at the centre of the worst maritime disaster in Australia's history has been discovered more than 4,000 metres beneath the sea, 81 years after it sank. Subscribe: http://ab.co/1svxLVE Read more here: https://ab.co/3mOCGtK

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.

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