HMS Urge was based with other submarines in Malta and had carried out several deadly missions by the time a German siege of the Mediterranean island forced the British navy to order it - and the rest of the flotilla - to redeploy to Egypt. It is sitting upright on the seabed, very proud, in the direction that it was ordered to take on its way to Alexandria,” he told Television Malta. “Besides the damage on the bow, the wreck is in absolutely fantastic condition. “Damage to the bow shows a very violent explosion … indicating that the ship would have sunk very fast giving no chance to anybody to survive from this tragedy,” said professor Timmy Gambin, who led the university mission. HMS Urge never reached its destination, Alexandria, Egpyt, in 1942, and the exact fate of its 44 souls has been a mystery for the last 77 years.Ī specialist university team of marine archaeologists finally found it lying at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea off Malta, thanks to the use of sonar imaging technology, they revealed Thursday. Sub-stantial: Bidens preside over commissioning of USS DelawareĪ British submarine that mysteriously vanished during World War II has been found at the bottom of the sea in “fantastic condition,” marine archaeologists revealed Thursday.
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