posted on Nov, 20 2016 @ 03:57 PM
MODS I placed this story here as I thought it was fitting?? Move if required?
Slightly odd story of many WW2 ship wrecks going missing.....yes, actually missing.
IT’S the bizarre mystery at the bottom of the Java Sea. The wrecks of military warships that have disappeared without a trace.
The warships sunk following one of the bloodiest naval battles of World War II.
During 1942’s Battle of the Java Sea, more than 2000 sailors perished as the Allies struggled to keep the Japanese Navy from marching across South
By the time the fighting subsided, at least five allied ships, some with bodies still inside, lay stricken on the seabed.
In 2002, they were still largely intact at the bottom of the Java Sea.
Today, all five have vanished.
None of the ships could be considered small. The USS Perch was 91m long and weighed 1370 tonnes. The Dutch warship HNLMS De Ruyter was 171m long and
when full weighed more than 6650 tonnes while Britain’s HMS Exeter was even heavier at a whopping 8520 tonnes