The wreck of the Empire Wold, a Royal Navy tug, was discovered by coastguards off the coast of Iceland. Two nearby US Navy ships towed the destroyer back to port.Īlso last year, a decades-long mystery about the fate of a ship that disappeared during a World War II rescue mission was finally solved. Sailors worked quickly to shore up the damage and kept the main part of the Abner Read’s hull watertight. Seventy-one lives were lost following the incident on August 18, 1943, although the crew’s heroics kept the Abner Read afloat.
Last summer a team of scientists from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego and the University of Delaware located the missing stern of the destroyer USS Abner Read, which was torn off by a Japanese mine in the remote Aleutian Islands.
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