Diving the USAT Liberty Wreck in Tulamben, Bali, Indonesia with Dive Concepts

USAT Liberty was a United States Army transport ship torpedoed by Japanese submarine I166 in January 1942 and beached on the island of Bali. She had been built as a design 1037 ship for the United States Shipping Board during World War I and had served in the United States Navy during that conflict as animal transport USS Liberty (ID3461). She was also notable as the first ship constructed at Federal Shipbuilding, Kearny, New Jersey. In 1963 a volcanic eruption moved the ship off the beach, and Liberty s