From the Feb. 6, 2013, New Zealand 3 News.
The wreckage of the New Zealand-owned MV Limerick was found off Australia, some 70 years after it sank. It was sunk by a Japanese torpedo off the coast of northern New South Wales. When it was sunk, on Anzac Day 1943, it was in a wartime convoy traveling from Sydney to Brisbane.
It didn't sink until the next day and all but 70 of its crew were saved. It was one of the largest vessels sunk by the Japanese off Australia's east coast during their 1942-1943 offensive and was located by local fishermen.
The 140-metre ship was built in the UK in 1925 and at the time of its sinking belonged to the Union Steam Ship Co. in New Zealand. It is protected under the provisions of the Historic Shipwreck Act.
Always Good to Find a Lost Shipwreck. That's History. --GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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