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| Torpedoed US warship found, solving 75-year-old cold case |
| 2019-07-20 |
| [BBC] A private dive team has found the last American warship sunk off the US east coast in WWII - solving a 75-year-old naval cold case. The sinking of the USS Eagle PE-56 was first deemed an accident until new evidence established it had been hit by a German submarine. Its location remained a mystery until June 2018, when the ship was found five miles (8km) off the coast of Maine. The Eagle lay 300ft (91m) below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean. "This particular wreck was one of those conversations: 'wouldn't it be great if we could?'" said Ryan King, a member of the eight-person dive team. But as Mr King began looking into the mystery-shrouded ship, finding the Eagle soon became something he "had" to do. "It's one of those wrecks that just gets under your skin," said Mr King. "If it's not you, who else is looking?" He and seven other divers combed the seabed for the ship for four years before it was found - 69 years after it sank to the bottom of the Atlantic, killing 49 of the 62 crew members on board. |
| Posted by:Frank G |
| #3 Mike's Eagle link |
| Posted by: SteveS 2019-07-20 11:06 |
| #2 ...The Eagle 56 was one of 60 Eagle boats built by Henry Ford as his contribution to the US effort in WW I - a production line for anti-sub ships that was a great idea in theory, didn't work out quite so well in practice. The boats had problems, and apparently seakeeping was not good. Eight of them held on into WW II, and the 56 boat was the only one ever lost to enemy action. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2019-07-20 10:55 |
| #1 Score another one for the private sector. |
| Posted by: DooDahMan 2019-07-20 10:16 |