The HMS Triumph vanished during a mission against the Axis Powers in January 1942.
After more than 25 years of searching, a veteran diver specializing in finding sunken ships has uncovered the location of the HMS Triumph, a World War II British submarine that disappeared in 1942.
The haunting images show sea life growing on every inch of the sunken craft’s exterior after 81 years underwater. “This fact leads us to believe that the Triumph fired more than one torpedo,” during its last mission,The HMS Triumph made its maiden voyage in 1938, just a year before World War II commenced, and carried out 20 missions before vanishing.
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