Tragedy of the torpedoed Indianapolis

30th July 1945: Survivors endure days in a shark-infested sea as the US Navy fails to launch a search because her distress messages were ignored

The heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis (CA-35) underway in1944.

As soon as the Trinity nuclear test had been successfully concluded on the 16th July, the USS Indianapolis had been dispatched from Mare Island, San Francisco, to Tinian Island in the mid-Pacific. The heavy cruiser carried the Uranium core that would arm the Little Boy bomb.

By 29th July, the Ind…