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Underwater Survey sheds light on shipwrecks from Dunkirk

New research has been charting the wrecks of ships lost during Operation Dynamo, the Allied evacuation from Dunkirk in the summer of 1940. Historic England and its French counterpart, Drassm, carried out a survey of 30 wrecks in the waters…

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World’s ‘deepest-known shipwreck’ surveyed in the Pacific Ocean

Heavily outnumbered and outgunned, she nonetheless fought valiantly against her larger opponents, allowing time for the escort carriers she was protecting to escape. Of the ship’s 327-man crew, only 141 survived the battle.

The Past

World’s ‘deepest-known shipwreck’ surveyed in the Pacific Ocean

The 115m long Fletcher-class destroyer sank in the Pacific Ocean during the Battle Off Samar on 25 October 1944.