DATELINE: 21 August 2002

WRECK OF BRITISH SUBMARINE E10 FOUND AFTER 87 YEARS
A team of German divers has found and identified the wreck of WW1 submarine E10 in Helgoland, North Sea. The E10 went missing on 18 Jan 1915, and it was assumed that she had hit a mine.
The Explorer Diving team led by Andreas Peters carried out a series of dives to investigate the wreck, which lies at 42m and is close to the position of British submarine E16 which was discovered by the same team last year. The wreck is described as largely intact and leaning slightly to starboard. Damage to the starboard ballast tanks is consistent with collision with a mine, and the divers found the torpedo tubes empty and the conning tower broken.
The submarine was identified after the team scraped away the marine growth and fishing nets to uncover the number 431 engraved into her starboard propellor.
Oliver Meise from Taucher.net discovered the meaning of this number by researching informatiom stamped into the propellors of E class submarines by Vickers of Barrow, the shipyard which built the submarine. 87 years after she mysteriously disappeared, E10 had been positively identified.
The team have informed the Royal Navy and the Receiver of Wreck about the find. Their website, featuring photos of the submarine is at www.explorerdiving.com

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