A look at some of the most notable underwater wrecks from WWI and WWII.
World War I and World War II saw some of the biggest naval battles and operations in history, and shipwrecks from this era are scattered across the world's oceans — around 15,000 ships, and over 500,000 people, were sunk during World War II alone, according to some estimates. Voyages by sea were the main means of travel at the time of the world wars, and control of the oceans was a primary goal in both conflicts.
2. Dutch submarines near MalaysiaTwo Dutch submarines that sank in Southeast Asia during World War II now seem to have disappeared, probably at the hands of illegal salvagers. One of the subs, HNLMS O 16, was sunk by a naval mine in the Gulf of Thailand in December 1941. The other, HNLMS K XVII, was sunk by bombs from Japanese warplanes in February 1942.
6. Discovered off North CarolinaTwo World War II vessels that sank in July 1945 within minutes of each other and just a few hundred yards apart were discovered off North Carolina in 2014. The Allied merchant freighter Bluefields was part of a convoy when it was sunk by a torpedo from a German U-boat, and the U-boat itself, U-576, was sunk a few minutes later by the convoy's escort ships.
10. Sunken treasureThe wreck of a German steamship that was sunk in the Baltic Sea near the end of World War II may hold the precious panels from Russia's 18th-century Amber Room. The ornate room was built in a royal castle near St. Petersburg, but it was captured and stripped by the invading Germans in 1941.
14. Sub sunk and then bombedA Japanese submarine that was sunk in World War II and then bombed by a salvager 30 years later is now the subject of a virtual-reality study. The sub was sunk with depth charges from Australian warships off the coast of Darwin in 1942, and in 1977, it was damaged by explosives from a salvager who was attempting to force a deal for its recovery with Japan's government.
18. Foggy collisionThe USS McCulloch was built as a revenue cutter in 1896 and saw action in the Spanish-American War; it was transferred to the U.S. Coast Guard in 1915, and then to the U.S. Navy in 1917, where it served as a patrol boat along the West Coast. But in 1917, it collided in thick fog with a passenger steamship and sank off the coast of California.
22. Drought reveals Higgins boat in Lake MeadIn July 2022, the receding waters of Lake Mead near Las Vegas revealed the wreck of a World War II landing craft, also known as a Higgins boat. The vessel was one of 23,000 made for the U.S. and Allied militaries during World War II, and they carried Allied troops onto the beaches of Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944.
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