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UK team to survey wreck of RFA tanker sunk by WWII German U-boat in St Helena

Saturday, April 14th 2012 - 06:38 UTC
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UK Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S) team is heading to the South Atlantic island of St Helena to survey the wreck of a tanker sunk by a German U-boat in World War Two. Read full article

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  • GreekYoghurt

    Don't the Argies claim St. Helena as it's in the Argentinian Ocean (South Atlantic)?

    Surely they'll be kicking up a stink about oil reserves being found on their land.

    Apr 14th, 2012 - 06:48 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • TipsyThink

    RFA Darkdale

    Lenght : 141 metres
    Beam : 18.7 metres
    Tonnage : 8.145 gr.

    waiting commentators here who sunk in 2008

    Length : 3120 mm
    Width : 1604 mm
    Height : 1548 mm

    Turning Radius : 4.5 m ( not turnip)
    Net weight : 1397 kg.
    Load capacity : 284 kg.

    Apr 14th, 2012 - 08:03 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Joe Bloggs

    1 Greek Yoghurt

    They won't claim St Helena until the airport gets built. It should be completed around 2016.

    Apr 14th, 2012 - 08:11 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • briton

    You will have to watch out for argie secret forces, and the nuke subs,
    Oh and the new navy they have, very powerful they be, [according to the pirate hunter] ha ha
    .

    Apr 14th, 2012 - 08:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • lsolde

    Can the oil be recovered?
    lt would help the enviroment to remove it from the equation.
    Don't quite get, “she refuelled some big ships & was then refuelled by a Norwegian ship”?
    Different type of fuel, maybe?
    Maybe we could raise her & sell her to Argentina to match the rest of the junk that they've got! lol

    Apr 14th, 2012 - 10:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0

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