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The Liberty: Bali’s perfect shipwreck
The Australian Way, April 2010
It is January 11, 1942, and the US army transport ship USAT Liberty is on its way from Australia to the Philippines with a hold full of rubber and railway parts. Near the Indonesian island of Lombok a Japanese submarine spots it and opens fire. The Liberty is torpedoed beneath the waterline.
The crew knows it’s sinking. But they have time to react, and two destroyers are swiftly enlisted to tow it to Singaraja, a port on the north coast of Bali, to save the ship, or at least its vital cargo. They don’t make it. But the destroyers do get it far enough to beach on Bali’s east coast at Tulamben, allowing the rubber and steel to be salvaged. And there the carcass sits for 21 years, stripped of all that’s useful from the ammunition to the deck wood, just a holed hulk on a Balinese pebble beach.
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