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