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A "group of very experienced technical divers" determined the site where they believe the Hawke sank, Lost in Waters Deep said. They dove to the wreck, which is about 360 feet underwater, on Aug. 11.
The ship exploded and sank in fewer than eight minutes with just 70 sailors surviving. The month before sinking HMS Hawke, the same U-boat sank three Royal Navy cruisers in one hour, killing more ...
An old shipwreck, believed to be the World War I vessel the SS Tobol, has been uncovered off the northeast coast of Scotland, solving what discoverers say is a "107-year-old maritime mystery."
On August 11, 2022, British deep-sea divers located the wreck of Jacob Jones off the Isles of Scilly at a depth of 377 feet (115 m). [20] Numerous artifacts were located, including the 80-pound (36 kg) ship's bell. [21] [22] [23] The divers, who found the bell lying on its side, flipped it upright and photographed and filmed it. [21]
Divers found Royal Navy crockery still sitting in the ship’s rooms. Nearly 110 years ago, the HMS Hawke was sent plunging to the bottom of the sea by a torpedo launched from a German U-boat.
List of ships sunk by the Imperial Japanese Navy; List of Allied ships lost to Italian surface vessels in the Mediterranean (1940–43) List of wrecked or lost ships of the Ottoman steam navy; List of United States Navy losses in World War II
Much like battlecruisers, battleships typically sank with large loss of life if and when they were destroyed in battle.The first battleship to be sunk by gunfire alone, [4] the Russian battleship Oslyabya, sank with half of her crew at the Battle of Tsushima when the ship was pummeled by a seemingly endless stream of Japanese shells striking the ship repeatedly, killing crew with direct hits ...
The site of the wreck was initially found in 2011 by a pair of brothers after a fisherman's net got stuck at the bottom of the sea, the navy said. ... of the hull of the sunken ship was finally ...