Credit: Fugro / ScottishPower Renewables
Posted on 01/25/2016 1:05:03 AM PST by SunkenCiv
Whilst undertaking detailed seabed scanning for the development of windfarm projects in the East Anglia Zone, off the coast of Norfolk and Suffolk, windfarm developers ScottishPower Renewables (SPR) and Vattenfall uncovered something they weren't expecting -- an 'uncharted' wreck of a WWI German submarine, missing in action since 1915...
SPR and Vattenfall used advanced sonar technology to scan over 6,000km2 of the seabed in the Southern North Sea over two years, which is nearly 4 times the size of Greater London (1,583km2). This work is critical to understand seabed conditions, and allow the companies to design the layout of their proposed projects. Although more than 60 wrecks were discovered during the scanning work, most of these were anticipated, but the uncharted submarine 90km from shore was entirely unexpected...
The Royal Netherlands Navy was duly notified to investigate whether it was Dutch military submarine HNLMS O13, which went missing in action in June 1940, after the crew were tasked to patrol the waters between Denmark and Norway...
GoPro footage taken by the Dutch Navy divers highlighted clear images of the conning tower and deck lay-out, which suggested the wreck was of German origin. From German drawings it was identified that this was a WWI German submarine: Type U-31. A database of reference books shows that only U-boats U-31 and U-34 had been lost in this area of the North Sea...
Three years after its initial discovery (in September 2012) the wreck was officially identified as German submarine, U-31, which left for patrol on 13 January 1915 never to return. The wreck is approximately 90km offshore in the North Sea but sits on the seabed at a depth of only 30 metres.
(Excerpt) Read more at scottishpowerrenewables.com ...
Credit: Fugro / ScottishPower Renewables
It ain’t coming up.
Bet those guys are starving
North Sea is a shallow booger no?
lol.
they should have called WWI submarines coffins.
i think there was a sub in the civil war, but not a very good one
Yes it sank in Charleston harbour but did sink a Federal ship first I think
Killed most aboard
The Chet Huntley......it sank every time it went out but showed macabre promise
(Hunley)
thanks i’m gonna go take a look at it, if there’s a pic.
They did; "Iron Coffins".
i think there was a sub in the civil war, but not a very good one
There was a purpose built submarine The CSS Hunley, which was the first submarine to sink an enemy vessel in wartime. It had problems and sank, killing three different crews by the time it was lost.
are they kidding??!!
there aren’t enough Xanax in ALL of NYC to get this neurotic NYer into one of those!!!!!
must have been tough guys.
there was one almost used to sink an English ship in the Revolutionary war.
fit one person and was decided it would never make it across the river as it was man powered and he’d be exhausted before reaching :)
That was the Turtle. It never succeeded in sinking an enemy vessel. One man crew.
3 crews!!! Good Lord!!!
kind of unfair to the guys by the third time.
must have been volunteers.
insane and courageous
What’s your last name? Britannica? :)
kids today wouldn’t even understand that reference.
No, but I used to read it for fun.
They were volunteers, and definitely courageous. Imagine, if you will, the idea of being the ones to break the Union blockade of the harbor, and you will understand.
cool
I didn’t know there was a union blockade. or which harbor it was.
CSS Hunley for more information, (for starters).
Thanks for the link!
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