Tom Metcalfe is a freelance journalist and regular Live Science contributor who is based in London in the United Kingdom. Tom writes mainly about science, space, archaeology, the Earth and the oceans. He has also written for the BBC, NBC News, National Geographic, Scientific American, Air & Space, and many others.
Searchers have located the wreck of the only warship that fought for both the United States and its enemy Japan during World War II.
According to The New York Times, the AUVs searched a 37-square-nautical-mile area of the seafloor in under 24 hours. By submitting your information you agree to the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy and are aged 16 or over.The Stewart managed to return to Surabaya on the island of Java. But the port came under Japanese attack, so the vessel was scuttled — deliberately sunk — by its own crew, who set off explosives in its hull. A year later, however, Japanese raised the sunken warship and it served as a patrol boat for the Imperial Japanese Navy until the war ended in 1945.
The mystery was solved only after the end of the war, when the vessel was found afloat in the Japanese port city of Kure, near Hiroshima.
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