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  • Lost Nazi ship likely found off Poland

    07/27/2006 1:00:38 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 18 replies · 616+ views
    Associated Press ^ | 1 hour, 6 minutes ago | VANESSA GERA,
    WARSAW, Poland - Poland's Navy said Thursday that it has identified a sunken shipwreck in the Baltic Sea as almost certainly being Nazi Germany's only aircraft carrier, the Graf Zeppelin — a find that promises to shed light on a 59-year-old mystery surrounding the ship's fate. The Polish oil company Petrobaltic discovered the shipwreck earlier this month on the sea floor about 38 miles north of the northern port city of Gdansk. Suspecting it could be the wreckage of the Graf Zeppelin, the Polish Navy sent out a hydrographic survey vessel on Tuesday, said Lt. Cmdr. Bartosz Zajda, a spokesman...
  • 'Nazi aircraft carrier' located

    07/28/2006 9:07:33 AM PDT · by managusta · 52 replies · 2,798+ views
    BBC NEWS ^ | July 28 2006 | BBC NEWS
    The Polish navy says it is almost certain that it has located the wreck of Nazi Germany's only aircraft carrier, the Graf Zeppelin. A Polish firm searching for oil first detected the wreck in the Baltic Sea, 55km (34 miles) offshore. The ship's whereabouts had been a mystery since the end of World War II. The navy investigated and said it was 99% certain that the wreck was the Graf Zeppelin. The ship, built in 1938, never saw action in the war. The navy said it was unlikely that the 250-metre (820-foot) wreck would be recovered from the seabed, as...
  • "GRAF ZEPPELIN" REDISCOVERED (Hitler's Showpiece Aircraft Carrier Found)

    07/28/2006 5:52:40 AM PDT · by wolf78 · 53 replies · 2,189+ views
    SPIEGEL Online ^ | July 27, 2006 | msm/spiegel/afp/dpa
    "GRAF ZEPPELIN" REDISCOVERED Hitler's Showpiece Aircraft Carrier Found A Polish oil firm working in the Baltic Sea has found the remains of the "Graf Zeppelin," Hitler's first -- and last -- aircraft carrier. The ship sank for good sometime after World War II, but exactly where and why is an enduring mystery of the early Cold War. Divers working for the Polish oil firm Petrobaltic on Monday discovered the rusting hulk of Nazi Germany's only aircraft carrier, the Graf Zeppelin, sunk in mysterious circumstances by the Soviets after World War II. Its exact location had been a riddle for almost...
  • Divers find Hitler's aircraft carrier

    07/26/2006 3:36:44 PM PDT · by saganite · 69 replies · 20,596+ views
    timesonline ^ | 27 July 06 | Roger Boyes
    The location of the wreck of the Graf Zeppelin had been a mystery for more than half a century POLISH divers have discovered the rusting wreckage of Nazi Germany’s only aircraft carrier, the Graf Zeppelin, solving one of the most enduring maritime riddles of the Second World War. For more than half a century the location of the huge vessel was kept secret by the Soviet authorities. Even the opening of the Moscow archives in the 1990s failed to produce a precise bearing. The once-proud ship was simply one of dozens of wrecks that littered the bed of the Baltic...