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Tuesday, 11 October 2011

Silver at sea from SS Mantola, WW1 wreck sunk by U boat.


The Odyessey Explorer is currently working souith side of the Scillies.

The Odyessey Explorer, currently engaged in surveying south of the Scillies has made her second big bullion haul of silver this year. A ship torpedoed during World War I while carrying a shipment of silver has been discovered 2,500m beneath the surface of the North Atlantic. The SS Mantola sank in 1917, after being hit by German submarine U-81.

US firm Odyssey Marine Exploration located it off the south west coast of the Republic of Ireland, about 100 miles (160km) from where it found the SS Gairsoppa shipwreck last month.