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Prinz Adalbert Wreck Diving

Repairs were finally completed by October 1915. Prinz Adalbert was steaming some 20 miles west of Libau in company with a pair of destroyers on 23 October when she was intercepted by the submarine . E8 fired a spread of torpedoes at a range of approximately 1200 m (1300 yd), which detonated the ship’s ammunition magazine. The massive explosion destroyed the ship, which sank immediately with the loss of 672 crew. There were only three survivors. The sinking was the greatest single loss of life for the German Baltic forces for the duration of the war.

  1. TecDiver05
    October 14th, 2011 at 03:03 | #1

    what’s the depth on this?

  2. datuvelv
    November 24th, 2011 at 12:23 | #2

    80mrs
    

  3. boleynali
    February 16th, 2012 at 15:09 | #3

    it was an obsolete armoured cruiser that was too weak to be used in the north sea against the superior british fleet so used to support the german troops in the baltic,only 3 or 4 sailors survived so it s definitely a war grave.

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