Articles on particular German ships to follow.
Shipwrecks
Some of the most famous shipwrecks of World War Two are off Guadalcanal, in the famed "Iron Bottom Sound." In one terrible night, the Battle of Savo Island, August 8-9, 1942, the United States Navy lost three cruisers and the Australians one, while the Japanese ships were only damaged that night. Altogether almost 50 Japanese and American ships were sunk in WW2 naval battles lie off Guadalcanal, from other engagements in the same area.
Another spot filled with shipwrecks is Truk Lagoon, site of a major Japanese naval base that was heavily bombed by the Americans. Many warships and merchantmen ("maru") still lie there, in relatively shallow waters that have made Truk Lagoon a favorite destination for scuba divers.
This site is devoted the the thirteen shipwrecks in Kwajalein.
Ship plans
Check out each ship page in this section, as the schematic diagrams are, in effect, gross-level plans.
Here is a sample, the USS Colorado:
For every ship discussed here, there is a comparable ship plan.
Ships sunk
During the course of WWII, over 1,500 ships were sunk: in the Pacific, by German submarines in the North Atlantic, the French Fleet at Toulon, on the Murmansk run.
The oceanographer, Bob Ballard, who had devoted life to underwater research, has even located and photographed the U.S.S. Yorktown, destroyed during the battle of Midway in 1942 and now resting 17,000 feet below the waves. His book "Graveyards of the Pacific" offers exactly what readers expect, including a Japanese torpedo at Pearl Harbor.