The wreck of a ship caught up in Australia’s worst ever maritime disaster has been found 4000 metres under the sea, 80 years after it was torpedoed by an American submarine.
The Montevideo Maru, discovered off the coast of the Philippines, sank with about 980 Australian troops and civilians aboard—almost twice as many Australians killed than during the Vietnam War.
The United States Ship Sturgeon torpedoed the Japanese transport on July 1, 1942 during World War II, not knowing it was carrying prisoners of war and captured civilians.
About 1060 prisoners died ranging from a 15-year-old boy to men in their 60s. 
The prisoners had been captured in the fall of Rabaul months earlier….