While Malaysian officials are investigating the weapons found on the Chinese vessel, Britain has condemned the looting calling it "desecration" of maritime military graves.
EDnews reports that Malaysia questioned a Chinese-registered vessel suspected of looting two British World War II shipwrecks.
The ship was seized over the weekend after it anchored without a permit off Malaysia's southern Johor state, the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency chief in the region, Nurul Hizam Zakaria, said on Tuesday.
Authorities found scrap metal and cannon shells on the ship.
