INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — A solemn annual ceremony is set to return to Indianapolis this week as the city pauses to remember the sinking of a ship that shared its name.

The USS Indianapolis CA 35 was a Portland-class heavy cruiser in the U.S. Navy that was struck by Japanese torpedoes while en route from Guam to the Leyte Gulf in the Philippines in July 1945.

The ship, nicknamed “Indy,” sank in about 12 minutes. Of the 1,195 on board, only 316 survived.

Tuesday’s ceremony will honor both those who died in the 1945 disaster and those who survived, lived through ...