HMS Exeter

Brit nehézcirkáló, a HMS York testvérhajója

A tribute to the heavy cruiser HMS Exter sunk at the Second Battle of the Java Sea, now more appropriately called The Battle off Bawean Island. Her escorting destroyers, HMS Encounter and USS Pope were also lost; Pope temporarily escaped the initial melee, only to be sunk by aerial attack a few hours later. About 800 Allied seamen, including the commander of Exeter, Captain Oliver Gordon, were picked up by the Japanese and became prisoners of war.The wreck was located and positively identified in February 2007. Exeter lies in Indonesian waters, at a depth of about 200 ft (60 m), 90 miles north of Bawean Island.