1 天前 · In early 2019, deep-sea explorers aboard the research vessel Petrel made a significant discovery: the wreckage of the World War II aircraft carrier USS Wasp. The ship was found approximately 2.5 miles beneath the surface of the Coral Sea, near the Solomon Islands.

2019年3月14日 · After 77 years, the exact location of the World War II stinger has been discovered. In the treacherous waters of the Atlantic and the bomber-laden Mediterranean of World War II, the USS Wasp, a...

2019年3月13日 · The late Paul Allen’s research team announced they found the wreckage of the World War II-era aircraft carrier USS Wasp (CV-7) in the Coral Sea. The team aboard R/V …

USS Wasp (CV-7) was a United States Navy aircraft carrier commissioned in 1940 and lost in action in 1942. She was the eighth ship named USS Wasp, and the sole ship of a class built to use up the remaining tonnage allowed to the U.S. for …

2019年3月13日 · Wasp was sunk on Sept. 15, 1942, by two, possibly three, torpedoes from the Japanese submarine I-19 while escorting transports carrying the Seventh Marine Regiment to Guadalcanal as...

2019年3月14日 · Hit by two or possibly three torpedoes from a Japanese submarine, the crippled ship was abandoned, then torpedoed by an American destroyer to send it to the bottom, approximately 14,000 feet below....

2019年3月14日 · A deep sea exploration team responsible for locating a string of World War II shipwrecks across the Pacific has uncovered yet another major find, the aircraft carrier USS Wasp. Wasp was sunk...

2019年3月14日 · Wasp was sunk on Sept. 15, 1942, by four Japanese torpedoes from the Japanese submarine I-19 while escorting transports carrying the Seventh Marine Regiment to Guadalcanal as reinforcements. Of the 2,162 on board, 176 were killed as a result of the attack.

2019年3月14日 · The wreck of another historic WWII aircraft carrier has been found by the expedition crew aboard research vessel (R/V) Petrel who discovered wreckage of USS Wasp (CV 7) on January 14. The ship was found in the Coral …

Originally located in January 2019, the wreckage of USS Wasp (CV-7), a US Navy aircraft carrier, was confirmed in March, lying nearly 14,000 feet deep in the Coral Sea off the coast of Australia.