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[PIC GALLERY] Wrecks and Relics

The USS Hornet, was sunk during the Battle of Santa Cruz Islands in the Pacific on Oct 26, 1942. Approximately 140 member were killed during a vicious Japanese air attack on the carrier that eventually resulted in its loss.

Hornet under attack by Japanese aircraft.
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An early quad-1.1″/75 caliber anti-aircraft gun mount is seen on the deck of the USS Hornet.
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At approximately 4.15 hours on 14 May 1943, the Australian hospital ship A.H.S. Centaur, ablaze with lights, with a compliment of 332 persons on board, was torpedoed by Japanese submarine I-177 off the coast of Brisbane, Australia.

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The Centaur was struck in an oil fuel tank on the port side abaft No. 2 Hatch. Centaur caught fire immediately, and sank within two or three minutes. Centaur made no signals and there was no time to launch any boats although two boats broke adrift from the ship as she sunk. At the time of the attack, most of the crew and passengers were asleep and had little chance of escape. Of the 332 people on board at the time, 268 would die.
In 2009 her wreck was found.

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The Centaur wrecksite has been marked as a war grave and protected with a navigational exclusion zone under the Historic Shipwrecks Act.

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The Japanese submarine I-177 was sunk on 3 Oct 1944 by the destroyer USS Samuel S. Miles (DE-183), with no survivors.
 
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