DIVING TRUK LAGOON
370' (113m), 4,776-ton Army Cargo Ship. The origins of this ship are a mystery, although it is said tha she was originally called the Red Hook, and was an American vessel doing Northwest trade during the depression. Captured by the Japanese in 1942, she arrived in Truk on February 12, 1944. The ship was bombed on both February 17 and 18, and it appears that the cargo of munitions was either struck by a bomb direcly, of reached by a fire. Nevertheless it resulted in a tremendous explosion, fragmenting the entire midship superstructure and flinging the whole stern section into deeper water.
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