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Hi all,

My dear friend Kostas Thoctarides has discovered the wreck of HMS Trooper in the Aegean. She failed to return from patrol in October 1943 cause unknown but was often believed to have been mined off Leros but this appeared now to not have been the case.

See the website below for more info;


https://en.protothema.gr/2024/10/06/british-submarine-of-world-war-ii-found-in-great-depth-in-the-icarian-sea-see-photos/


For video footage see;

https://youtu.be/x-5YhbEcoUE


Kind regards,
Brian Corijn

Hello Brian,

thank you for this detailed report on a fascinating research.

ZitatThe team proceeded to investigate all the German minefields that the Germans had set up in the Aegean and found that the DRACHE minesweeper [MG: minelayer] on 26 September 1943 laid five anti-submarine minefields with 287 mines north of Donousa, on the day the submarine TROOPER set off from Vyritto on her last mission. It was the area in which the submarine's commander was ordered to patrol between 6 and 9 October 1943, before his ordered move to Leros.

Regards

Darius

Hi Darius,

The report is not mine, I think Kostas sent this to this Greek news medium.

I will try to update the page of HMS Trooper on uboat.net soon, but I am a bit short on time. Quite busy with my preparations for an upcoming trip to the National Archives at Kew (London) from 14 to 27 October.

Kind regards,
Brian Corijn

New film footage;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y73oRkyKXv0