Commissioned in 1941, the Tambor-class sub had spent the war patrolling the South Pacific and South China Sea, torpedoing numerous enemy vessels and rescuing downed American aviators.
28, 1944, according to the Navy’s official history, when it left Pearl Harbor on its 10th combat tour. The Grayback’s final mission started on Jan. “There’s a book I read, and it said these ships are known only to God,” Gloria Hurney, whose uncle, Raymond Parks, died on the Grayback, told ABC News. The news brought closure to relatives of the sailors lost that day. Navy confirmed Sunday that Taylor’s team, part of a group dedicated to finding the 52 American submarines lost in action during World War II, found Grayback’s final resting place in the ocean off Okinawa, Japan. The university said British authorities have confirmed the wreck is the Urge.Ī ceremony is planned for next year to declare the site an official war grave.Taylor’s discovery on June 5 solved an enduring 75-year-old mystery about the fate of the USS Grayback, one of World War II’s most effective submarines. At the request of the grandson of Urge’s commander, they combed an area this summer that had once been heavily mined by Nazi forces.Ī sonar image finally revealed a submarine-like shape 425 feet below the waves and two miles off the coast. The team from the University of Malta has spent two decades surveying local waters for the sunken sub. However, it failed to reach Alexandria on the agreed rendezvous date of May 6. The Urge set sail on April 27, 1942, carrying a 32-strong crew, 11 other naval personnel and a journalist. The wreck of a submarine, which University of Malta says is Britain’s HMS Urge that vanished during World War Two, is seen lying at the bottom of the sea off Malta. 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. Master of gaffes: President calls wife Jill Biden Obama's VP in latest blunderĪ 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. North Korea fires ballistic missile from submarine: South Korea
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