In the period between 2017 and 2020, RV Petrel made many, many notable wreck discoveries. Ranging from the Surigao Strait wrecks, to all of the undiscovered American fleet carriers. Understandably, some wrecks got lost in the shuffle, as it were.

One of those wrecks was USS Northampton. This heavy cruiser, lost off Guadalcanal, was found in early 2018. Her discovery was sandwiched between the far more famous discoveries of Indianapolis in 2017, and the spree of fleet carriers in 2018. As well as USS Juneau and Helena, right around the same time.

Because of that, Northampton wasn't really covered much. You could be forgiven for not even knowing she had been found.

This video will, hopefully, bring more attention to her discovery.

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