[PotatoHeadMick]

I wasn’t aware the wreck of the Perth had been found, that’s interesting.

I have a little house by the sea which overlooks the Sunda Strait where the battle took place. If one can even dignify it with the term “battle” the poor Houston and Perth walked into a turkey shoot and never even landed a glove on the Japanese. One Japanese transport was sunk but by a Japanese destroyer in error. A few days after the battle the destroyer captain sought out the transport captain to apologise for sinking his ship. The transport captain waved away the apology saying “We’ll let the Houston have the honor of sinking my ship shall we?”

[Rockpile]

I was looking up the Shinshu Maru landing ship recently. Apparently it was sunk along with three other transports and a minesweeper by torpedoes from Cruisers Fubuki and Mogami in shallow water in Bantam Bay. They were all raised I think. The IJN fired around 90 torpedoes at Houston, Perth and the destroyers so there were a lot of misses. Since you are on the scene so to speak I would defer to you on most of this stuff. I am just an amateur admiral who is 500 miles from an ocean😊