On April 10 , 1940 , a Nazi ship sunk the British submarine HMS Tarpon along with the 50 piece onboard . The floor of this issue has been lose to the ocean for some 76 year , but now marine archaeologists have used sonograms to finally discover the location of the wreck and the story of its final day .
It was come across 80 klick ( 50 miles ) off the seashore of Denmark in March by Gert Normann Andersen , proprietor of a Danish war museum , and UK marine archeologist , Dr Innes McCartney . Just recently , Danish television channel DR3showed the worldthe torpedo for the first time in a live programme .
Images obtained through a sonogram show that the 84 - meter ( 275 feet ) hoagy was lying on the seabed at a depth of 40 meters ( 130 feet).The range of a function of the T - socio-economic class poor boy , a eccentric of diesel - electric submarine used during the Second World War , make the watercraft look in unco near condition . However , a snoop around by some divers enjoin a unlike tarradiddle .
The Guardianreports the diver discovered the submarine was in tatters , with its torpedo tubes empty and many of its hatch leave open . Although this suggests there was a last - ditch attempt to escape the plump submarine , it ’s conceive all 50 British crewman were killed . They also feel the ocean floor around the wreck was marred with craters from depth charges ( anti - submarine weapons ) .
German records seem to pair well with this evidence . They show that a submarine send away two torpedoes at an armed German merchant ship supplying weapons to Nazi - occupied Norway . Unfortunately for the British submarine , their shot missed and the ship was able to drop deepness thrill , which succeeded in sinking the submarine within hours .
“ It look very bad . They had depth rouse it on several occasions . The price was so severe behind the conning towboat it would have flood in seconds , ” Dr McCartney toldthe Guardian .
McCartney sum that the British Ministry of Defence should help protect the sites of sunken submarines from fishing trawler or industrial projects . “ After all , ” he say , “ they are the tombs of British sailor . ”
