German Submarines discovered off Yorkshire Coast

[Alan Seymour]

You may find the following item that appeared on tonight’s BBC1 ‘Inside Out’ programme of interest.

For the last ten years, teams of divers have scoured waters off the Yorkshire Coast looking for the last few missing German U-boats from World War I.

Eight of the German submarines were sunk off Yorkshire between 1917 and 1918 and until last summer two remained lost.

Divers have now discovered the wartime graves of 58 German submariners on two wrecked submarines off the Yorkshire coast. The two submarines were the UB41 & UB75.

UB41 was found first. Her last sighting was by the SS Melbourne on October 5, 1917 off Scarborough. UB75 was found later, upright and intact with very little evidence of damage.

Further information can be found at: - http://www.bbc.co.uk/insideout/extra/series-1/uboats.shtml