The Germans lost a lot of their submarines as well during this time so there are lots of wrecks. He told CornwallLive: "During the first and second world war, there were a number of ships sunken - more during World War One. But that was later questioned as the U 93 was assigned to operate off Brittany and subsequently sank two ships.ĭiver and photographer Dominic Robinson took part in the dives last June to identify the mysterious boat. The Royal Navy believed that it was U 93 submarine and that it had been rammed and sunk by merchant ship SS Braeneil on January 7, 1918. There had been considerable debate about the identity of this German submarine. Read more: The little known search for the lost city of Atlantis off the coast of Cornwall Working with US-based resting historian Michael Lowrey, the team of British divers organised by Steve Mortimer investigated the wreck and confirmed it was the U 95 submarine, one of four U-boats which disappeared in 1918. In June last year, a group of divers braved the high-risk waters off the peninsula to confirm the identity of the submarine. Reports from 1918 tell how the crew perished in the bitterly cold January sea and that their "foreign voices" could be heard in the darkness. One haunting episode off the Lizard peninsula left a German U-boat lying on the seabed about 75 metres deep, where it came to rest after being sunk during the First World War. The treacherous sea off the coast of Cornwall has claimed many victims over the centuries.
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