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Cassandra Morgan

Ship found 80 years after Australian maritime disaster

The discovery of the Montevideo Maru will close a "terrible chapter in Australian military history". (PR HANDOUT IMAGE PHOTO) (AAP)

The wreck of a ship caught up in Australia's worst ever maritime disaster has been found 4000 metres under the sea, 80 years after it was torpedoed by an American submarine.

The Montevideo Maru, discovered off the coast of the Philippines, sank with about 980 Australian troops and civilians on board - almost twice as many Australians killed than during the Vietnam War.

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