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Wreck of Royal Navy Warship Torpedoed During WWI Found in ‘Remarkable’ Condition
['Clare Fitzgerald']
WAR HISTORY ONLINE
HMS Hawke, which fell victim to a German U-boat in 1914, was found by members of Lost in Waters Deep, a group dedicated to locating shipwrecks that were lost in Scottish waters. Lost in Waters Deep was able to locate the wreck of HMS Hawke through detailed research, which included an analysis of the day journal kept by U-9‘s commander, which provided a possible location for where the torpedo had been fired, and logs kept by the crews of the various Royal Navy warships serving in the North Sea. While identifying features, such as HMS Hawke‘s bell, weren’t found during the dive, Lost in Waters Deep was certain the wreck is the warship, as she’s the only one registered to have been lost in the area.