The Second World War British destroyer HMS Keith has been located for the first time in 80 years and is aground near Dunkirk. In 1940 the ship was sunk by German Stukas. Researchers have now published a 3D image of the wreckage.
The ship, about 100 meters long, was one of about 1,000 military, commercial, fishing boats and civilian ships that helped rescue 338,226 Allied soldiers from Dunkirk.
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill described the mission as a “miracle of liberation”.
Sunk by Stukas after soldiers were rescued
When she returned to the French coast on 1 June 1940 – after rescuing almost a thousand soldiers and dropping them off at Dover – she was attacked by German Stukas and sank to the bottom of the English Channel.
As part of a new initiative, the destroyer has now been identified by researchers for the first time. The goal is to find more sunken ships. 27 other wrecks have already been located.
According to the Daily Mail, experts believe they may have also discovered three other previously unknown ships linked to the Dunkirk evacuation.
Source: Krone
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