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The submarine is a popular attraction for divers because it's accessible in 130 feet of water.īut the Eagle sits 300 feet down, far beyond the reach of recreational divers. Navy destroyers sank the submarine, U-853, south of New London, Connecticut, after it attacked a cargo ship. The day before Germany signed a surrender on May 7, 1945, U.S. The sinking was ruled a boiler explosion at the time, but Lawton helped connect the dots to show it was sunk by a German submarine with the same markings. The World War I-era patrol boat was ripped by a blast, and several survivors reported seeing a submarine conning tower featuring a painted red horse on a yellow shield. Children take in the view Thursday at Fort Williams Park at Cape Elizabeth, Maine, where a plaque, foreground, remembers those killed when the USS Eagle PE-56 was sunk.
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The video shows the ship's boilers are intact, he said. The divers' research is expected to offer definitive proof that the sub was indeed destroyed by a German submarine, which itself was sunk days later off Block Island, Rhode Island, Kozak said. Underwater video clearly shows the deck gun on the bow farther away, depth charges are clearly visible on the stern, Kozak. The two hull segments, about 350 feet apart, blended with the uneven, craggy ocean floor, making it difficult to locate them with sonar, Kozak said. The underwater video, which will be aired in the fall on the Smithsonian Channel's "Hunt for Eagle 56," backs up the story of sailors who said an explosion broke the ship into two pieces, said Kozak, of Derry, New Hampshire. Only 13 of the 62 crew members survived they were plucked from the water by a nearby Navy destroyer. But it was towing a practice target for bombers from a nearby Brunswick Naval Air Station when it sank. The patrol boat was equipped with depth charges, explosives used to battle enemy submarines. "With the deck guns, there was no mistaking it for what it was," said Paul Lawton, a Massachusetts attorney whose research helped to convince the Navy how the ship was sunk. A plaque at Fort Williams Park at Cape Elizabeth, Maine, remembers those killed when the USS Eagle PE-56 was sunk. King's team, which later began working with the Smithsonian Channel, extensively explored the ship on the ocean floor, 5 miles off Cape Elizabeth, Maine. Garry Kozak, a specialist in undersea searches, announced this week that diver Ryan King, of Brentwood, New Hampshire, confirmed in June 2018 that an object Kozak previously discovered on sonar is the vessel 300 feet down. The patrol boat's precise location remained a mystery - until now.
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But the Navy determined in 2001 that it had been sunk by a German submarine. The sinking of the USS Eagle PE-56 on April 23, 1945, was originally blamed on a boiler explosion. Navy warship to be sunk by a German submarine in World War II, just a few miles off the coast of Maine. Navy via AP) This article is more than 2 years old.Ī private dive team has located the last U.S. It is similar to the USS Eagle PE-56, which exploded and sank off Cape Elizabeth, Maine, on April 23, 1945, killing most of its crew. Navy shows an Eagle class patrol boat built during World War I.