(ORDO NEWS) — Water depths can hide many secrets: entire cities, sunken temples and submarines. So, off the coast of Greece, divers managed to discover a top-secret submarine that sank during the Second World War. This is reported by Live Science.
The submarine HMS Triumph was launched in 1938. During World War II, she flew more than twenty different missions, including attacks on surface and submarine ships in the Mediterranean, underground operations in Greece, and many other operations.
Thus, in 1941, HMS Triumph secretly transported Captain Bill Hudson, a British Special Operations (SOE) officer, to the Serbian port of Petrovac on the Adriatic coast to help Yugoslav partisans. A year later, the submarine sank…
On January 23, 1942, “Triumph” was declared missing with 64 crew members on board. A team of underwater archaeologists has been trying to find her for over twenty years.
During this time, divers found four other submarines of this period, but the “Triumph” remained undiscovered. Just now they reported that the submarine was found 10 kilometers from Cape Sounion at a depth of about 200 meters.
Experts also managed to learn about the cause of the “Triumph” disaster. According to archaeologists, as a result of the explosion, she suffered serious damage in the bow. The cause of the explosion could be a mine, an enemy torpedo, or even the detonation of ammunition on board the submarine.
All hatches of the “Triumph” are closed, and the periscope is removed, most likely, the crew died during the flooding. Their remains may still be on board the submarine. Archaeologists are now working with military experts to find out more precise reasons for everything that happened in the last century.
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