Five Notable Missing Shipwrecks - Japanese Carriers to Lost Taffys
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- Опубликовано: 10 июн 2024
- An extra video. Mostly because Hornet faceplanted for...whatever reason.
This video will look at five (technically seven) examples of notable shipwrecks that have yet to be found. Ranging from Japanese aircraft carriers, to the missing members of Taffy 3, and then into the Mediterranean. While I suspect most of these will be found, at some point or another, one of the examples...
Well, that one is probably going to remain a mystery.
Timestamps:
0:00 - Introduction
0:58 - Shinano
4:20 - Hiryu and Soryu
7:30 - Hoel and Gambier Bay
11:08 - Californian
13:30 - HMS Barham
Maybe it's better that they remain unfound, given what the Chinese did to the war graves of HMS Repulse and HMS Prince of Wales.
I’d rather that they were found but the team kept the location secret. Otherwise you might have ended up with the situations like HTMS Samui that sank off Malaysia. They haven’t been out looking for her, and by the time they got there, those grave robbers already tore her into pieces. I’m extra furious at that as I am also a descendant of one of the crew that went down with her.
Most of those wrecks are way, way, way too deep for salvage. Not to mention salvors don't operate in the areas these wrecks are located.
Absolutely disgusting and disgraceful for what they did to The Repulse and the Prince of Wales.
A good short list of shipwrecks left to find; Langley, Liscome Bay, Glorious, the Zara class at Matapan, Surcof sub, and IJN Nisshan
A few more ships to find; WW1 Blucher, Yahagi, Nagara, and 2 Italian cruisers Giussano and Colleoni. IJN Takao and Myoko are still not found yet
also the missing subs that where lost in WW II@@franksposato6072
My Father Kenneth McLaughlin WT/3 served on Gambier Bay . My hope is that she has found before I pass because my father died in 1969 when I was three
When the seafloor is mapped down to a fine enough resolution the number of wrecks that will be found is literally in the thousands.
true but the depth that many ship wrecks are at it would be some time to investigate much less find them
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I'm not saying that they would be identified. Just the locations would be known.
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Mapping the seafloor down to the resolution of say Google Earth would be a major undertaking. Plus what would the acoustic based technology do to marine life. At the level it's been mapped now we a sort of have a vague idea. One thing that might help prevent major damage to marine life might be towed arrays that operate at depths below 1 to 2 kilometers. With the acoustic device focused downward. I would not be surprised if the highest definition maps are in the hands of either oil companies or militaries. And those only in shallower waters.
If we had maps that had that level of detail, say 1 meter, we would be able to tell the ship type to some degree. Really old wrecks might just be a slight bump on the bottom.
Personally love someone to find the HMS Jervis Bay, or the sunk wreck of the pocket battleship Lützow (Former Deutschland) as we know her approximate location from the Soviets.
The Oklahoma would be an interesting find, considering it was lost under tow back to the Mainland.
Please can you do one about the HMS Hood, very good videos.
Shinano was sunk due to complete negligence and ignorance of the officer in charge, he had several destroyer escorts that located the enemy sub and wanted to attack it, but the dude literally said not to.
Yes he felt 1 sub would not be a threat when it took so many torpedo and bomb hits to sink the Musashi and Yamato. Completely forgetting his current ship was not fully protected like the other 2 were.
Interesting video. Very good. I will add that the battleship Pennsylvania should be on this list of wrecks that should be found.
Kaga had a battleship hull. I would expect its hull to be in better shape than Soryu.
Soryu’s survivors also reported hearing a large underwater explosion after she sank. There’s a chance she’ll be little more than a very large debris field.
USS Princeton CVL-23 is the one I want to see.
Taiho would be an interesting find!
Being an aircraft ferry - carrying spare aircraft to where they were needed - was an unglamorous but very necessary task. That was one of the uses of USN escort carriers in the Pacific. But a ~70,000 ton aircraft ferry?
The most significant missing wrecks, IMO, are the Crane Sisters.
Shinano never actually went on sea trials, as not all her engines had been fitted to her before she was sunk.
And Taiho! Shinano would be a brilliant find, we could learn so much as she was such a mystery ship and if her hull is intact....
IJN Shinano is gone, scrapped after ran aground at the end of war.@@alexbenis4726
How about HMS Captain?
my list for wrecks to find would be IJN Taiho, both Zuikaku class carriers, Shoho and Zuiho carriers, HMS Good Hope and Monmouth, uss Princeton, the US civil war submarine alligator
What about Shokaku and Zuikaku ?
I'v enever seen that picture of Barham at 15:39, where is it from?
Shinano looked like a carbon copy of an Essex-Class Aircraft Carrier
But much larger and hevey
Omg she looks nothing like an Essex, other than having the general layout of all carriers. Seriously.
I think it would be interesting to find the wreck of the heavy cruiser Lutzow, Sunk as a target by the Russians after ww2 because it wasn't worth repairing her. Her bow most likely broke of as she sank but other than that she could be in great condition.
Didn’t they find Hiru
Uss hull was sunk in typhoon cobra not the battle off Samar.
USS Hoel was lost at samar. Pronunciation is nearly the same
Its Hoel not hull and it is sunk on samar
Shinano was an actual aircraft carrier rather than an aircraft transport ship like the Unicorn, what carrier is larger than Shinano on the bottom?
Uss Lexington probably. She was larger in dimensions but not in terms of weight.
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IJN Unryu
Kongo battlecruiser
Zuikaku
Hiyo 1944
Tosa battleship
numerous heavy cruisers from Japan
Taiho
Shokaku
You missed a few just a friendly suggestion
Someone has to look for these wrecks
Iirc there are a lot of very real fears that the Kongo has already been scrapped; she sank in shallow water off Taiwan. And if she hasn’t been yet, she almost certainly will be within a few years after she’s discovered. So, it’s probably for the best that we haven’t found Kongo and don’t find her while we don’t control the seas around China and Taiwan
Oof Ocean Gate
I would add 2 subs:
ORP Orzel
MN Surcouf
Roma was sunk by Italian frogmen. Soviets stole it.
What?"Roma was sunk by German air attack, by Fritz X guided missile dropped by. Do 217k if I remember correctly. It was first ever ship sunk by guided missile.
Souryuu and Hiryuu are Japanese names, therefore their name need to be read like this Sou-Ryuu and Hi-Ryuu, not Sore-Yuu and Heer-Yuu.
Souryuu -> Sou like the word 'so' and Ryuu like 'riew' with '-iew' from the word 'view.'
Hiryuu -> Hi like the 'i' in the word 'bit' and Ryuu similar to Souryuu's.