Rusted hulls decaying, boundless and bare, sunk deep into the mud.
I stumbled across eleven abandoned ships, their rusted hulls decaying, boundless and bare, sunk deep into the mud. Hiking through the Musquash Estuary Nature Reserve, I stumbled across eleven abandoned ships, their rusted hulls decaying, boundless and bare, sunk deep into the mud. Two were United States Navy ships from the Second World Warwhich had fought in the Battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa. At 62 meters (200 feet) long and two floors high, they are the biggest of the ships in Musquash. They rest close to one another, side by side. Seaweed grows on them from when the waters cover them at high tide. They were landing craft built by the US Navy to carry soldiers and tanks beaches in the heat of battle on the opposite side of the world during the Second World War. They are called “Landing Ship Medium Class One” (LSM) and their respective numbers were 46 and 56. Both were awarded battlestars for their involvement in major battles. Iwo Jima was a key island controlled by the Imperial J