A submarine has been found that never returned from a routine patrol in the Baltic sea in 1916 which was sent out by Winston Churchill.HMS E18 was found last week near the Estonian island of Hiiumaa, some 90 miles (140km) , The supplied picture is not of HMS E18 but is a stock picture of an HMS E class.
A swedish marine survey company are the ones to have found it , who are called Marin Matteknik (MMT)
MMT said
"This is a very emotional discovery for me and the search team," he said. "We will now complete our mission to document this wreck and inform the relevant authorities. We want to investigate the exact cause of the sinking - and to honour the fallen by telling their story."
The lives of some 33 men were lost including 3 Russians who were there in the capacity of liasion.
Naval historian Eric Grove said the Baltic campaign was the Royal Navy's most successful submarine campaign of the war. (This intresting article was found on aol news)
Eric Grove has quite alot of history and there is a link below about him courtsey of Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Grove
Lets hope that when they have done recording the damage and whats onboard if thats what they intend that they leave the submarine and those who served in peace and to continue thier rest.
Whilst Looking for the links and the pictures I found what appeared to be a very intresting article for people to look at connected with the E class submarines of that era
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