Musashi (largest Japanese WWII warship) found

[kcdusk]

Maybe interesting?

 

Until last week, when the billionaire Paul Allen began tweeting images of deep-sea wreckage — a coral-encrusted anchor, a green valve hairy with algae — the annals of vanished ships contained no entry more mysterious than that of the Musashi, a massive Japanese battleship sunk off the Philippines toward the end of World War II. To call Musashi massive, actually, doesn’t begin to do it justice. It was, and remains, one of the largest battleships ever launched — 70,000 tons of water displaced, with a crew of more than two thousand. Its nine 18.1-inch guns, the largest caliber ever mounted on a ship, were designed to fire 3,000-pound shells at a range of more than 26 miles.

 

 

http://grantland.com/the-triangle/paul-allen-musashi/

[CV32]

If I am not mistaken, I think Hiei might be the only large battleship of the era remaining to be located.