Hornfischer died in 2021, at the age of 55, but his legacy lives on in “Destroyer Captain,” a biography of Lt. Cmdr. Ernest E. Evans, who helmed the destroyer USS Johnston during the opening ...

Previously, the deepest wreck ever identified and surveyed was the USS Johnston, found last year ... 89 of whom were killed. Captain Robert W. Copeland was one of the survivors.

That puts it 1,400 feet deeper than the USS Johnston, the previous deepest wreck ... Of a 224-man crew, 89 died and 120 were saved, including the captain, Lt. Cmdr. Robert W.

That puts it 426 meters (1,400 feet) deeper than the USS Johnston, the previous deepest ... including the captain, Lt. Cmdr. Robert W. Copeland. According to Samuel J. Cox, a retired admiral ...