Unidentified wreck off North Dock, 1978. 

Aerial photos of the North Dock area taken in early February 1945 shows a couple of sunken wrecks just off the East Side of North Dock.  They look like barges. Beached to the West of the Engineer Dock was another wreck which was fairly intact. This appeared to be a small ship. All of these appeared to have resulted from the intense bombing of Corregidor before the 16th. As an aside, an odd circular item appears off the Engineers Dock.  It looks like a large bomb crater from a near-miss of a bomb aimed at the dock. It's the Lorcha Dock in the background.

Unidentified wreck off North Dock, 1978. Aerial photos of the North Dock area taken in early February 1945 shows a couple of sunken wrecks just off the East Side of North Dock.  They look like barges. Beached to the West of the Engineer Dock was another wreck which was fairly intact. This appeared to be a small ship. All of these appeared to have resulted from the intense bombing of Corregidor before the 16th. As an aside, an odd circular item appears off the Engineers Dock.  It looks like a large bomb crater from a near-miss of a bomb aimed at the dock. It's the Lorcha Dock in the background.

Don Abbott

I remember coming across that particular portion, only submerged by the time I got around to it. Its a standard 150-ton barge of the 30's-40's, built locally, (most probably in Manilla), and based on its location we can assume the following:

It was either:

(1) Kept at Corregidor for such things as garbage hauling or for supplies prior to hostilities,

(2) Used by the Manila evacuation personnel who landed at North Dock in those hectic days of December, 1941,

(3) Brought in by the Japanese for use in cleaning up the island.

Good chance that it is a combination of 2 & 3 above. I know that it was not used for the peso recoveries. That wood barge I located at another place (which also matched the PW accounts),  embedded in the bottom, with its deck just about gone. 

Ed Michaud