HMS Repulse in 2024?

[lightning877m]

Hi everyone!

Anyone visited the HMS Repulse recently? I heard that it was badly damaged by salvages in the last few years..

Would love to hear some input about this, as most of the info I can find about this wreck is pre-2020..

Thanks in advance!

 

[rjack321]

Hi everyone!

Anyone visited the HMS Repulse recently? I heard that it was badly damaged by salvages in the last few years..

Would love to hear some input about this, as most of the info I can find about this wreck is pre-2020..

Thanks in advance!

"Damaged" is a bit of a misnomer, at this point it's basically gone. Illegally salvaged for the pre-atomic bomb steel and stolen.

 

[lightning877m]

"Damaged" is a bit of a misnomer, at this point it's basically gone. Illegally salvaged for the pre-atomic bomb steel and stolen.

That’s really really sad to hear

 

[Kay Dee]

"Damaged" is a bit of a misnomer, at this point it's basically gone. Illegally salvaged for the pre-atomic bomb steel and stolen.

Not quite 'gone', but.................................she has certainly been heavily, repeat heavily, damaged (as has PoW) and would be a very very sorry site / sight to dive / see now, unfortunately. But they will be 'gone', thats for sure!

In case anyone has not seem them, here is a link to a PDF survey report I wrote on both wrecks years ago, and PDF paper we wrote on PoW, also years ago. Enjoy, as sans a couple of salvaged props they were in pristine shape then (save for battle / sinking damage of course), which they sure ain't now! Luckily we got what we got when we got it.

https://pacificwrecks.com/ships/hms/prince-of-wales/expedition-job74.pdf

https://pacificwrecks.com/ships/hms/prince-of-wales/death-of-a-battleship-2012-update.pdf

The photographs in this report that were shot along the shaft tunnel (in PoW) were taken by well known cave diver Craig Challen, who was also known to do an odd wreck dive or two three.

To the OP, given you seem to be from / live in Singapore, you are closer to the scene of the crimes than most I would assume, so there would be folks that are there or nearby that you could look up to see if they have dived either one in recent years.

 

[Kay Dee]

A little 'update' on both wrecks (Repulse and PoW); first two pics below from a 2019 multi-beam scan survey, but only 'released' as a declassified PDF last year (2023) it seems. (The third a composite I made up of what PoW looked like at the time of our 2007 expedition and and 2019).
https://depositedpapers.parliament.uk/d ... 5539/files

And the latest re the culprit.
https://news.usni.org/2024/07/04/chines ... 7eecb75fa4