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To scuttle the ship after missing with a torpedo.(CLICK ON TO VIEW FULL-SIZE) Destroyer KIKUZUKI The KIKUZUKI was sunk during the preliminaries of the Battle of the Coral Sea and happened to be sunk at the future site of some of the most ferocious naval battles to come, Namely: Guadalcanal. Since the wreck is still there and is one of the most photographed both in salvage and over the years the lack of pictorial documentation may surprise. This is because the data is so abundant yet complex KIKUZUKI's wreck merits its own separate page that is in preparation. What follows then is just the broad picture as originally posted on this page.Hit by torpedo in the engine room from planes of USS YORKTOWN (CV-5) on 4 May 1942 while covering the invasion of Tulagi. It was the prelude to the Battle of Coral Sea, and while subchaster TOSHI MARU No.3 managed to beach KIKUZUKI on Gavutu Island, the Japanese were unable to give full attention to salvage. Before they could make her sufficiently watertight, KIKUZUKI slid back into the sea and sank on 5 May. For a while the wreck was forgotten, but in 1943 after the fall of Guadalcanal to the Americans, salvage teams from USS PROMETHEUS raised the KIKUZUKI and got her back on the beach. The wreck thereafterhas a complicated history, which because of the confusion it often causes, is worth outlining in sequence.In mid-1943 KIKUZUKI was raised by the U.S. Navy and towed to Ngelle Sule

We have disabled the ability for users to embed tweets in new posts on ResetEra. You can read about it here. Wreck of Japanese aircraft carrier Kaga, sunk during the Battle of Midway, has been found (Update: Akagi too!) Thread starter Deleted member 5745 Start date Oct 20, 2019 You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. #1 Deep-sea explorers scouring the world's oceans for sunken Second World War ships have uncovered the wreck of a Japanese aircraft carrier destroyed in the pivotal Battle of Midway.Fought in June 1942, the clash saw US aircraft carriers ambush their Japanese foes and sink all four opposing Imperial Navy (IJN) flattops thanks partly to intelligence gained through intercepted communications.The crew of the Petrel research vessel, in conjunction with the US Navy, revealed on Friday that it had found the Japanese carrier Kaga lying 5.4km beneath the waves. This week, the crew is sending robots into the abyss to investigate what may be another wreck site.The expedition was started by the late Paul Allen, the billionaire co-founder of Microsoft, working with officials around the world to locate and document sunken ships, of which it has found 31 so far. It is illegal to otherwise disturb the underwater US military grave sites, and their precise coordinates are secret.Eerie footage released by the Petrel team on Friday revealed the twisted wreck of the Kaga, which was finally tracked down after scans of some 500 nautical miles inside the Papahanaumokuakea marine national monument, a US conservation preserve which includes Midway atoll. The ship is said to be missing much of her flight deck, while animals have colonised her pipework and shattered metal plates. This is huge. Kaga is the first of the four Japanese carriers sunk during the Battle of Midway (Akagi, Kaga, Hiryu, and Soryu, all of which participated in the raid on Pearl Harbor) to be discovered (the lone US carrier loss, USS Yorktown, was found in 1998 by Robert Ballard). They found some wreckage in 1999, but the main wreck has gone undiscovered until now.The Petrel team has been on an absolute roll the past few years. Most famously, they've located the wrecks of the battleships Hiei and Musashi, USS Hornet, USS Wasp, USS Lexington, and the USS Indianapolis, among several others.Wiki article on Kaga: website: From Petrel's Facebook page, they confirmed the second wreck to be the Akagi. She's about 18 nautical miles away from Kaga. From the sonar images it looks like the flight deck is completely gone. Edit: Last edited: Oct 22, 2019 #2 I love shipwrecksinb4 the nuke argument. #3 What usually happens to these shipwrecks once they're located? Does it just stay there or will countries pay to retrieve them? #4 What usually happens to these shipwrecks once they're located? Does it just stay there or will countries pay to retrieve them? They're usually designated as war graves so people don't go scavenging

Historians aboard the Petrel research vessel have located a deep-sea wreck in the Pacific, which they have matched to the Japanese aircraft carrier Akagi.This discovery comes hot on the trail of another World War II-era find—the Kaga, a second Japanese aircraft carrier that the team found last week.The Associated Press reports the ship was located in the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument, roughly 1,300 miles northwest of Pearl Harbor.The bow and the stern are clearly visible in the images taken of the carrier, researchers told reporters at AP. It is possible to discern some of the gun emplacements, but much of the flight deck is missing.This official United States Navy photo, released in Washington July 14, shows the American aircraft carrier Yorktown, already listing badly to port, as she received a direct hit from a Japanese bomber in the Battle...Bettmann/Getty The Akagi was last seen during the Battle of Midway, more than 75 years ago. The 1942 battle between Japanese and the American forces was described as "the decisive battle of the war in the Pacific" by the Naval History and Heritage Command.Prior to the US Navy's attack on the Japanese at Midway, the Americans were on the back foot, having experienced heavy losses at Pearl Harbor.When the US got wind of Japanese plans to capture Midway for use as a military base, they launched a covert attack and, despite being outnumbered, managed to sink four Japanese carriers, losing only one in return.A fire-fighting detail works through a pall of smoke aboard the USS Yorktown after its bombing by Japanese forces in the Battle of Midway. June 1942. | Location: aboard the USS Yorktown, Pacific Ocean, off...© CORBIS/Corbis/Getty The team responsible for finding the Akagi and the Kaga, two of those lost ships, work for Vulcan Inc, an organization established by late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. The Japanese aircraft carriers are just the latest in a string of recent discoveries made by the company—Vulcan Inc has been responsible for finding more than 30 ships considered to be historically important.The size and weight of the vessel in combination with its location suggests it must be the Akagi, the researchers say."I'm sure of what we're seeing here, the dimensions that we're able to derive from this image [are] conclusive," Rob Kraft, Vulcan Inc.'s director of undersea operations, told AP. "It can be none other than Akagi."The discovery required an autonomous vehicle that used sonar to locate and then take images of the wreck. Kraft and the rest of the team hope they will find the other vessels lost during the Battle of Midway using a similar method."We read about the battles, we know what happened. But when you see these wrecks on the bottom of the ocean and everything, you kind of get a feel for what the real price is for war," Frank Thompson, a historian with the Naval History and Heritage Command in Washington, told AP."You see the damage these things took, and it's humbling to watch some of the video

In the upper hangar. After valiant efforts to evacuate the remaining Japanese sailors, the Akagi was ordered scuttled by torpedoes fired by her own destroyers. She sank bow first. Of the crew members on board, 267 were killed as a result of the battle. Four Japanese and three American aircraft carriers participated in the battle. The four Japanese fleet carriers, Kaga, Akagi, Soryu and Hiryu, part of the six-carrier force that had attacked Pearl Harbor six months earlier — were all sunk, as was the heavy Japanese cruiser Mikuma. The U.S. lost carrier Yorktown and destroyer Hammann.The crew of Petrel have discovered more than 30 sunken warships including USS Hornet, USS Wasp, USS Juneau, USS Ward, USS Lexington, USS Helena and the USS Indianapolis over the past few years. Additional past Vulcan-led expeditions have resulted in the discovery of USS Astoria, the Japanese battleship Musashi and Italian WWII destroyer Artigliere.

1942 to 1945 as IJN's PB-102, then a very breif life as a vessel surrendered to U.S. custoday and sunk for target practice in May 1946 off San Francisco. The wreck is in astonishingly good condition and state of preservation, and best of all, is sitting upright on the sea bottom. In retrospect, the last photos show her going down heeling to port, but with all upperworks basically intact, so this is not as shocking as it may appear. Other Java Sea campaign four-piper wrecks to date found include only USS POPE (DD-225) and it is little more than a skeletal frame identifiable only by its boilers. (Aside from USS PEARY DD-226 which was sunk in Darwin Harbor and wreck was always known but it is unknown off-hand if any of it has remained unsalvaged to date)(Ocean Infinity)(Ocean Infinity) Submarines I-1 - It seems appropriate to open the section on Japanese submarine wrecks with a boat bearing the `Number 1' numeral. Even more so since the wreck is apparently still there. That being said, as for the saga of how I-1 came to be wrecked it is unnecessary to repeat it here for the bulk of the fascinating and dramatic action story is set down elsewhere on this same site. The visitor is urged to consult the very detailed chronicling of I-1's loss and immediate aftermath on I-1's TROM.The I-1 ended up with bow sharply upraised projecting above the water a starboard list of about degrees. It might bear mention