A veteran Greek diver specializing in locating sunken ships announced Wednesday that he has found a British submarine that disappeared during a World War II mission in 1942.
"The plug of the right torpedo, located at the tower height, has opened and the MK VIII torpedo is halfway out of the submarine!" Thoctarides wrote.
The 84-meter T-class submarine was launched in 1938 and carried out twenty missions, including attacks against Axis ships, landing British commandos and rescuing Allied soldiers. It appears to have sunk due to a powerful explosion in the fore section but the cause of the blast is still unclear, he said.
"This fact leads us to believe that the Triumph fired more than one torpedo" during its final mission, he wrote.
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