AMERICANALMANAC (Jack Newsome) - Divers find HMS Tiger off the Isle of Wight, solving a 118-year-old Royal Navy mystery
A British dive team spent five years combing archives to locate the wreck of HMS Tiger, a Royal Navy warship that sank in 1908 and killed more than half its crew, and the discovery is now driving new legislation to protect military shipwrecks. ProjectXplore, a volunteer dive group led by organizers Leo Fielding and Dan […] The post Divers find HMS Tiger off the Isle of Wight, solving a 118-year-old Royal Navy mystery appeared first on American Almanac .
A British dive team spent five years combing archives to locate the wreck of HMS Tiger, a Royal Navy warship that sank in 1908 and killed more than half its crew, and the discovery is now driving new legislation to protect military shipwrecks. ProjectXplore, a volunteer dive group led by organizers Leo Fielding and Dan McMullen, announced on August 10 that it had found the remains of HMS Tiger on the seabed off the Isle of Wight, the same stretch of English Channel where the warship went down after colliding with the 10,000-ton HMS Berwick 118 years ago. More than half of the ship's 57 crew members died in the 1908 sinking. The team laid a wreath on the wreck site, a gesture of respect for the sailors still resting there. Fielding and…Open