British WW2 submarine that disappeared with 64 on board during secret mission in 1943 is found 81 years later 830ft down on Mediterranean sea bed off Greece

A British World War II submarine that disappeared with 64 connected committee during a concealed ngo successful 1943 has been recovered disconnected Greece.

The wreck of HMS Trooper's has been discovered 830ft beneath h2o by a backstage heavy oversea probe company, solving the 81-year-long enigma implicit its whereabouts.

The 275ft-long submarine is chopped into 3 chiseled sections, the proprietor of Planet Blue, the steadfast that recovered the vessel, told Greek media.

Costas Thoktaridis said the separation of the bow, mediate conception and stern confirms HMS Trooper suffered a precise convulsive sinking pursuing a excavation explosion.

The find of the wreck is hoped to yet bring immoderate closure to the families of the submarine's crew, which included British submariners and Australian unpaid Lt. John Stuart Ryder, 22. 

Richard Wraith CBE, a skipper successful the Royal Navy and lad of the skipper of HMS Trooper said of the news: 'I person known for galore years the painstaking effort of the hunt squad to find the wreck of the submarine and present I americium precise pleased and excited that their efforts were rewarded. 

'I anticipation that the household members of those mislaid on with my begetter volition beryllium capable to usage the Trooper's definitive presumption arsenic a notation constituent to assistance laic their loved ones' memories to rest.'

George Malcolmson, erstwhile manager of the British Royal Navy's Archive of the Royal Submarine Museum told Greek quality bureau ANA-MPA that helium was 'very moved' to perceive that Thoktaridis and his squad had solved the decades-long mystery.

HMS Trooper launched successful October 1943 for a patrol mission between Donoussa islet and Ikaria aft British quality received accusation that the Nazis could effort a caller landing successful Leros.

The sub was ordered to instrumentality to the larboard of Beirut connected October 17, but failed to aboveground and was reported missing.

It was presumed that it had been struck by a German excavation successful the Aegean, astir apt adjacent Leros. 

Efforts to find the missing sub began successful 2000, but much than 14 searches astir the Dodecanese failed. 

Searches for its remains were focussed in the known German minefields of Leros, Kalymnos and Kos.

It was yet located betwixt Ikaria and Kos, wherever it is believed to person been destroyed by a excavation laid a fewer days anterior by the German mine-sweeper 'Drache'.