Tuesday, August 19, 2014

U.S. Navy Works with Indonesian Partners in Protecting, Preserving Sunken Gravesite

The U.S. Navy Northampton-class heavy cruiser ...
The U.S. Navy Northampton-class heavy cruiser USS Houston (CA-30) and the Clemson-class destroyer USS Peary (DD-226) at Darwin, Northern Territories (Australia), in February 1942.  (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
"...U.S. Navy underwater archeologists, in conjunction with Indonesian Navy divers, have assessed in an interim report that the wrecked vessel surveyed in the Java Sea in June is "consistent with the identification" of the World War II wreck of the cruiser USS Houston (CA 30), and that divers documented conclusive evidence of a pattern of unauthorized disturbance of the gravesite...."   Read More HERE...