The Bow of HMS Volage
Built - Cowes, Great Britain, 1943-1944
Operated - 1944-1972
Damaged with loss of bow - 1946
Location - Bay of Saranda, Albania
Depth - Classified
Studied - 2009
Principal Investigators - James P. Delgado, Adrian Anastasi, George Robb and Jeffrey Royal
“In a split second forty feet of the destroyer, from the fore peak to just in front of ‘A’ gun turret, had vanished. Mess decks, store rooms, the paint shop, the cable locker containing tons of anchor cable, the anchors themselves, literally dissolved in the air”
- Eric Leggett, 1976
Author: Eric Gaba
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An international team of archaeologists has discovered the remains of the bow of HMS Volage, a British destroyer that struck a mine off the Albanian port of Sarande on October 22, 1946. The incident brought Communist Albania and Great Britain into diplomatic conflict. READ October 2009 Press Release
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