Archaeologists find missing World War II submarine

8 Nov 2019

Archaeologists find missing World War II submarine

Archaeologists find missing World War II submarineHMS Urge, a British submarine* which went missing during World War II has been recently found in Malta, Europe.

HMS Urge had 40 people on board and left the Mediterranean island of Malta on 27 April 1942 to the Egyptian port, Alexandria. It had gone missing after that.

A special team of marine archaeologists from the University of Malta have found it using sonar imaging technology (technique used to detect objects underwater).
 	The reason for the ship's disappearance and its final resting place were unknown till now.
 	The submarine is now lying 400 feet beneath the sea.
 	They started searching for the submarine in 2017, when Francis Dickinson, grandson of the HMS Urge's commander contacted the University of Malta.
 	Analysing the damage to the bow, archaeologists are predicting that the ship would have sunk very fast.

The ship's exact location has not yet been disclosed.

*Submarine: A watercraft which can be operated underwater.

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