![]() ![]() ![]() 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. King's team, which later began working with the Smithsonian Channel, extensively explored the ship on the ocean floor, 5 miles (8 kilometers) 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 (90 meters) down. The patrol boat's precise location remained a mystery - until now. 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 warships to be sunk by a German submarine in World War II, just a few miles (kilometers) off the coast of Maine. Navy warship sunk by German sub in WWII finally locatedĪ dive team has located a sunken Navy warship off the coast of MaineĬAPE ELIZABETH, Maine (AP) - A private dive team has located one of the last U.S. Davis, not the USS Eagle PE-56.Ī corrected version of the story is below: warship to be sunk by a German submarine in World War II. ![]() Navy ship off Maine coast, The Associated Press, relying on information provided by the Navy, erroneously reported the last U.S. CAPE ELIZABETH, Maine (AP) - In a story July 18 about divers finding a sunken U.S. ![]()
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