The wreckage of the British submarine "H.M.S. Triumph", which mysteriously disappeared during a mission to Greece in 1942 during World War II, was discovered in the Aegean Sea, the Greek press agency Ana said on Wednesday.
The British submarine "H.M.S. Triumph", which mysteriously disappeared in 1942 during World War II (Royal Navy Submarine Museum).
The wreckage was sighted "at a depth of 203 meters in the Aegean Sea" and "tens of kilometers from the coast" by the team of Greek diver Kostas Thoktaridis who had begun investigating in 1998.
The T-class, 84-meter-long submarine is linked to "the resistance against the Nazi occupation at that time in Greece and to the British secret services," Kostas Thoktaridis was quoted as saying by Ana.
All its crew dead
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All 64 members of its crew perished during the sinking," according to the same source.
The remains of the submarine found
The "Triumph" carried out a score of war missions between 1939 and 1942.
Reg Waye (center), who was the Chief Telegraphist on the sunken submarine (© Arthur Waye).
But on January 23, 1942, during its 21st mission in the Aegean Sea, the British Navy indicated that the submarine was "considered missing."
Among the hypotheses about the causes of the sinking are the collision with a mine off the island of Milos, its capture by German forces in cooperation with Italian agents or an explosion in the bow, according to Kostas Thoktaridis.
AFP Agency.
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