Gps Coordinates / -8.2736195,115.5924553
US Liberty Wreck Ship 1942 Torpedoed Japanese Tulamben Ocean VR
PHGV+867, Tulamben, Kubu, Karangasem Regency, Bali 80852, Indonesia
USAT Liberty was a United States Army cargo ship torpedoed by Japanese submarine I-166 in January 1942 and beached on the island of Bali, Indonesia.
Gps Coordinates / -8.274333,115.592667
In 1963 a volcanic eruption moved the ship off the beach, and Liberty's wreck is now a popular dive site.
Link Location Gps / Gps Link -8.2742615 / Gps Link -8.2742021 / Gps Link -8.2741093
Gps Coordinates / -8.2742615,115.5927418 / -8.2742021,115.5927181 / -8.2741093,115.5926687
At the time of the United States entry into World War II in December 1941, USAT Liberty was in the Pacific. In January 1942, she was en route from Australia to the Philippines with a cargo of railway parts and rubber.
Link Location Gps / Gps Link -8.2740848 / Gps Link -8.2740576 / Gps Link -8.2739146
Gps Coordinates / -8.2740848,115.5926687 / -8.2740576,115.5926439 / -8.2739146,115.5925998
On 11 January, Liberty was torpedoed by Japanese submarine I-66 about 10 nautical miles (19 km) southwest of the Lombok Strait, near position 08°54′S 115°28′E.
Link Location Gps / Gps Link -8.2738579 / Gps Link -8.2738056 / Gps Link -8.2737623
Gps Coordinates / -8.2738579,115.5925777 / -8.2738056,115.5925553 / -8.2737623,115.5925327
US destroyer Paul Jones and Dutch destroyer Van Ghent took the damaged ship in tow attempting to reach Celukan bawang harbour at Singaraja, the Dutch port and administrative centre for the Lesser Sunda Islands, on the north coast of Bali. However she was taking too much water and so was beached on the eastern shore of Bali at Tulamben so that the cargo and fittings could be salvaged.
Link Location Gps / Gps Link -8.2737114 / Gps Link -8.2736195 / Gps Link -8.2735726
Gps Coordinates / -8.2737114,115.5925068 / -8.2736195,115.5924553 / -8.2735726,115.5924336
In 1963 the tremors associated with the eruption of Mount Agung caused the vessel to slip off the beach, and she now lies on a sand slope in 25 to 100 feet (7.6 to 30.5 m) of water, providing one of the most popular dive sites off Bali.
Link Location Gps / Gps Link -8.2735224 / Gps Link -8.2734836 / Gps Link -8.2733994
Gps Coordinates / -8.2735224,115.5924159 / -8.2734836,115.5923932 / -8.2733994,115.5923396
US destroyer Paul Jones and Dutch destroyer Van Ghent took the damaged ship in tow attempting to reach Celukan bawang harbour at Singaraja, the Dutch port and administrative centre for the Lesser Sunda Islands, on the north coast of Bali.
Link Location Gps / Gps Link -8.2733634 / Gps Link -8.2733199 / Gps Link -8.2732772
Gps Coordinates / -8.2733634,115.59232 / -8.2733199,115.5923031 / -8.2732772,115.5922745
However she was taking too much water and so was beached on the eastern shore of Bali at Tulamben so that the cargo and fittings could be salvaged.
Link Location Gps / Gps Link -8.2732332 / Gps Link -8.2731814
Gps Coordinates / -8.2732332,115.5922493 / -8.2731814,115.5922225
In 1963 the tremors associated with the eruption of Mount Agung caused the vessel to slip off the beach, and she now lies on a sand slope in 25 to 100 feet (7.6 to 30.5 m) of water, providing one of the most popular dive sites off Bali.
Gps Coordinates / -8.2743198,115.5927704
Liberty′s wreck rests in about 100 feet of water off Tulamben, Bali, Indonesia. The highest point of the wreck is at a depth of about 16 feet and the lowest point sits at about 100 feet. The wreck is a great display of how nature creates life everywhere and great coral formations can be observed on the wreck's guns.
