“Knowing their final resting place brings closure, in some part, to their families and shipmates as well as enables our team to better understand the circumstances in which the boat was lost. “Each discovery of a sunken craft is an opportunity to remember and honor the service of our Sailors,” Neyland said in a statement. “I believe it will allow healing as relatives of crew members come together to share their stories.” “The discovery brings closure to the questions that surrounded the Grayback as far as its sinking and location,” Hurney said in a statement to CNN. Eventually, though, those feelings turned into relief, comfort and peace. So when she first learned of the discovery, she felt a mixture of shock, disbelief, sadness and grief. Gloria Hurney, whose uncle Raymond Parks died on the Grayback, said that she wasn’t sure that the Grayback would ever be recovered. It was a discovery that was never meant to be. The Lost 52 Project discovered the USS R-12, a submarine that went down with. submarines that disappeared during World War II. The ARA San Juan submarine disappeared on Nov. The wreckage of an Indonesian Navy submarine missing since Wednesday has been found on the sea floor and all its 53 crew are confirmed dead, Indonesia military commander Air Chief Marshal Hadi. And on March 30, 1944, the Grayback, one of the most successful submarines of World War II, was reported lost. U-111, a WWI Submarine That Was Thought Lost Forever, Has Been Found. They launched the Lost 52 Project dedicated to locating the 52 U.S. A submarine that went missing over a year ago together with 44 crewmen aboard has been found, the Argentinian navy said early Saturday. Though the Grayback was scheduled to arrive in Midway on March 7, more than three weeks passed without sight of the submarine. But the attack left the Grayback with only two torpedoes, and it was ordered home from patrol. On January 28, 1944, the Grayback set sail from Pearl Harbor for the East China Sea for its 10th combat patrol.Ībout a month later, the submarine reported sinking two Japanese cargo ships on February 19. Neyland, the head of the Naval History and Heritage Command’s Underwater Archaeology Branch, said in a news release. The discovery was officially confirmed by the Navy, Robert S. With the help of autonomous underwater vehicles, remotely operated vehicles and advanced imaging technology, the team discovered the Grayback about 100 miles from the area where it was originally thought to have gone down.

The bow of a World War II submarine was discovered off the coast of the Aleutian IslandsĪrmed with that information, as well as newly discovered and translated Japanese mission logs, Taylor told CNN that his team set out on an expedition to search for the Grayback, this time searching in the area southwest of Okinawa.

The submarine, which had sailed from the island of Leros when it was sunk, was located by the ROV Super Achilles, a remotely operated underwater vehicle that completed a detailed visual inspection of the wreckage.The USS Grunion was reported lost on Augafter reporting firing on an enemy destroyer, sinking three destroyer-type vessels and attacking enemy ships during its first war patrol, according to the US Navy. A German submarine from World War II, rumored to have transported Nazi leadership and treasurers to South America following the collapse of Berlin, has been found nearly 73 years after being lost.

Thoctarides said his team of divers found the shipwreck south of the island of Mykonos at a depth of more than 300 feet. The wreckage of the Italian submarine Jantina that was sunk during World War II by the British submarine HMS Torbay, lays south of the island of Mykonos, in the Aegean Sea, Greece, November 3, 2021.

'The wreck and the surrounding area was treated with respect as a wet grave,' Thoctarides wrote on Facebook. Images posted by the diving team appear to show the submarine's deck gun. Records from Italy's Naval History Office confirmed the wreckage was the Jantina. The view of the deck gun of the Italian submarine Jantina that was sunk during World War II by the British submarine HMS Torbay, south of the island of Mykonos, in the Aegean Sea, Greece, November 3, 2021. Only six sailors managed to swim to safety to the island of Dilo, he said. The ship sank on July 5, 1941, with 48 crewmembers aboard after being hit by torpedoes fired by the British sub HMS Torbay in the Aegean Sea, Thoctarides said.

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