Diver Kostas Thoctarides and his team located the wreck of HMS Triumph in the Aegean Sea. The submarine was launched in 1938 and carried out twenty missions, including attacks against Axis ships, landing British commandos and rescuing Allied soldiers.
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. Thoctarides -- who in 1997 located the hulk of HMS Perseus, a British submarine that sank in 1941 -- said the Triumph was last sighted by an Italian pilot near Cape Sounion near Athens.The last attack by the vessel is believed to have been against an Axis cement freighter.Thoctarides told ANA that the submarine's periscopes and hatches were down, indicating that it was in a deep dive during its final moments.
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