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HMS Urge: Submarine that disappeared mysteriously in World War II found after 77 years
Source: CNN
Submarine that disappeared mysteriously in World War II found after 77 years
Rory Sullivan, CNN • Updated 1st November 2019
(CNN) — The wreck of a British submarine that went missing during World War II with 44 people on board has been found off the coast of Malta.
HMS Urge -- part of Britain's 10th Submarine Flotilla -- left the Mediterranean island of Malta on April 27, 1942 but never made it to its destination of the Egyptian port of Alexandria. Until its discovery this summer, both the reason for the ship's disappearance and its final resting place were unknown.
According to the researchers who located the wreck, the vessel was sunk by a mine off the island. It now lies on the sea bed, approximately 400 feet down.
The hunt for the submarine began in 2017, when Francis Dickinson, grandson of the Urge's commander, contacted the University of Malta (UM) to ask about its work mapping the seabed.
Timmy Gambin, a professor in the university's Classics & Archaeology department who worked on the project, told CNN that UM had spent 20 years "systematically surveying the seabed off the Maltese Islands," covering more than 1,200 square kilometers (463 square miles) to date.
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Rory Sullivan, CNN • Updated 1st November 2019
(CNN) — The wreck of a British submarine that went missing during World War II with 44 people on board has been found off the coast of Malta.
HMS Urge -- part of Britain's 10th Submarine Flotilla -- left the Mediterranean island of Malta on April 27, 1942 but never made it to its destination of the Egyptian port of Alexandria. Until its discovery this summer, both the reason for the ship's disappearance and its final resting place were unknown.
According to the researchers who located the wreck, the vessel was sunk by a mine off the island. It now lies on the sea bed, approximately 400 feet down.
The hunt for the submarine began in 2017, when Francis Dickinson, grandson of the Urge's commander, contacted the University of Malta (UM) to ask about its work mapping the seabed.
Timmy Gambin, a professor in the university's Classics & Archaeology department who worked on the project, told CNN that UM had spent 20 years "systematically surveying the seabed off the Maltese Islands," covering more than 1,200 square kilometers (463 square miles) to date.
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Read more: https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/lost-submarine-wwii-found-scli-intl-gbr/index.html
HMS Urge left Malta for the north coast of Egypt on 27 April 1942 and was never seen again (Bridgend County Borough Council)
The University of Malta said the submarine was struck by a German mine (Bridgend County Borough Council)
