HMS TROOPER comes to light after 81 years скачать в хорошем качестве

HMS TROOPER comes to light after 81 years

The British submarine HMS TROOPER the traces of which disappeared in October 1943 has been discovered at a depth of 253 meters (830 ft) in the Aegean Sea, after a 26 year search! It is the eighth sunken submarine discovered by Kostas Thoctarides' research team! HMS TROOPER, commanded by Lieutenant John S. Wraith, sailed from Beirut on her eighth offensive patrol on 26 September 1943 and was ordered to sail to the Aegean. On 5 October 1943, the British had information about a new German operation with Leros as a possible target. So the submarine TROOPER was ordered to patrol between Donousa and Ikaria. From there onwards the traces of TROOPER disappeared and when on 17th October, that she was due to return to Beirut, she did not turn up she was considered lost. Initially the research was focused on the minefields of Leros and then Kalymnos and Kos. Ten sea minefields were searched without finding Trooper. On October 14, 1943, an event took place which was the cause of the disorientation of all research in relation to the sinking of the TROOPER. The caique LS8, belonging to the Levant Schooner Flotilla (LSF), had an encounter with a British "T" class submarine that surfaced alongside it in Alinda Bay in Leros. The Captain of the caique Commander Adrian Seligman, described in his book "War in the islands" his encounter with the submarine, which he believed to be HMS TROOPER, as he said he recognised the loud voice of Lieutenant Wraith. This information was adopted as it coincided with the order the British Admiralty had sent to TROOPER, and post-war this version was further strengthened when the minefields in the area became known. Researchers S. Vougidis and K. Thoctarides while studying the logs and reports of British submarines found that the report of the captain of HMS TORBAY contained the incident in Leros - exactly as Seligman described it! It was not the TROOPER but TORBAY submarine that Seligman had seen! So the research was moved to the area where Trooper was patrolling between 6 and 9 October 1943, in the Aegean Sea. The wreck of HMS TROOPER was located in international territorial waters north of Donoussa, at a depth of 253 metres (830 ft), on one of the five German minefields that the mine-laying ship DRACHE had laid on 26 September 1943. The 84-metre-long TROOPER is cut into three distinct sections, bow, middle section and stern, which confirms a very violent sinking after a mine explosion.The sinking of the submarine was caused by a German EMF mine containing 350 kg of hexane. The result of the explosion was the immediate sinking of the submarine... with the submarine breaking into three pieces.First the bow sank, then the stern and lastly the middle section, which remained on the surface for a few minutes. The bow and stern lie on the seabed in close proximity, while the submarine's conning tower has been detached and lies much further away. Throughout the entire exploration, no intervention or disturbance of any kind was made to the wreck, as it is a wet grave of the 64 men of the crew of HMS TROOPER. Copyrights: ROV Services (www.rovservices.gr) Underwater footage: Kostas Thoctarides Montage: Agapi - Οceanis Thoctarides Μusic: @EpicMusicWaves Coefficients: Rena Giatropoulou, Nikos Anestis, Spyros Vougidis, Christos Vasilakopoulos, Pyros Kyrkos, Alexandros Kyrkis, Ntalaris Vasilis, Giorgos Marangoudakis, Dimitris Vogiatzis, Konstantinos Vlassis. Special thanks: Captain Richard S Wraith CBE Royal Navy, George Malcolmson Former Archivist Royal Navy Submarine Museum, Captain W. Benbow, Naval and Air Attaché of the British Embassy in Athens, The National Archives UK, RN Submarine Museum Gosport, Neil Campbell, David Renwick Grand, John Eade, Jan Erik, Divid Wilkins, Platon Alexiades, Jean Louis Roba, Brian Corijn, Vaggelis Kanakis, Fragiskos Lgkonis,Giorgos & Ilektra Mamais, Nikos Koumarianos, Brian Corijn, Anne Berta.