More than 800 sailors were killed when the HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse were torpedoed by Japanese aircraft — three days after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Today, the battleship HMS Prince of Wales rests upside down 223 feet beneath the waves near Kuantan in the South China Sea. The battlecruiser HMS Repulse lies several miles away from its sister ship.

The HMS Repulse is one of the British battleships the barge is suspected of looting. It was torpedoed by Japan in 1941. Getty Images ...

The battleship HMS Prince of Wales, back left, and the battlecruiser HMS Repulse, next to it, after they were hit by Japanese torpedoes off the eastern coast of British Malaya in 1941.

The vessel, a dredger named Chuan Hong 68, was seen lurking near the shipwrecks of the Royal Navy battleship HMS Prince of Wales and cruiser HMS Repulse, according to the U.K.’s Daily Mail.