USAT Liberty Wreck

One of Bali's most famous dive sites, the site of the wreck of the USAT Liberty Glo, a US Navy Transport, is popular for a reason, providing an example of glorious Bali diving, close to the beach. The USAT Liberty Glo, which was built towards the end of World War I and completed after the armistice,, was put into action when the United States joined World War II, and, being hit by a torpedo, was beached off of the North East coast of Bali soon afterwards. The ship was built at Hog Island emergency shipyard in Philadelphia, and, laid down as the SS Scooba, was renamed the USAT Liberty Glo by the time of the launch. Designed as a Type B Troop Carrier, it was not of the Liberty Ship design, and measured 394 feet by 54 feet (120m by 16m), 6,211 tones when redesignated the 'USAT Liberty Glo'. The USAT Liberty Glo was bound from Australia to the Philippines on January 11th, 1942 when she was hit by the torpedo from a Japanese submarine about 10 miles southwest of the Lombok Strait. The ship was towed by the U.S Destroyer Paul Jones and the Dutch Destroyer HNLMS Van Ghent in an attempt to reach the Dutch port at Singaraja, on the north coast of Bali. Being found to be taking on too much water, she was beached at Tulamben so that the cargo and fittings could be salvaged. The beached USAT Liberty Glo slipped off the beach in 1963, due to tremors associated with the eruption of Mount Agung, and is currently on a sand slope in 30 to 100 feet (9 to 30m) of water. The wreck is commonly mistaken as the 'USS Liberty', or referred to as a Liberty Ship, which is also incorrect.