{"id":98178,"date":"2019-11-05T18:23:14","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T02:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/wwii-submarine-found-77-years-after-it-disappeared-off-malta-coast"},"modified":"2019-11-05T18:23:14","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T02:23:14","slug":"wwii-submarine-found-77-years-after-it-disappeared-off-malta-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/wwii-submarine-found-77-years-after-it-disappeared-off-malta-coast","title":{"rendered":"WWII Submarine Found 77 Years After It Disappeared Off Malta Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/wwii-submarine-found-77-years-after-it-disappeared-off-malta-coast2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Marine archaeologists recently identified the wreck of HMS Urge, a Royal Navy submarine that went missing in the Mediterranean Sea during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/news\/bow-of-wwii-submarine-discovered-off-alaskan-coast-77-years-after-sub-went-missing-1798379\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">World War II<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/news\/wreckage-of-french-submarine-found-after-it-vanished-51-years-ago-1796962\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">submarine<\/a> vanished during a mission from Malta to Alexandria, Egypt, on April 27, 1942, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.royalnavy.mod.uk\/news-and-latest-activity\/news\/2019\/october\/31\/191031-ww2-submarine-urge-found-off-malta\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to the Royal Navy<\/a>. Historians believe that the submarine was sunk by German and Italian Forces that were present in the Malta vicinity from June 1940 to November 1942, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/science\/ww-ii-submarine-discovered-77-years-after-it-vanished\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox News noted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"\"><p>The wreck of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WW2?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WW2<\/a> submarine HMS Urge has been found off Malta.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marine archaeologists recently identified the wreck of HMS Urge, a Royal Navy submarine that went missing in the Mediterranean Sea during World War II. The submarine vanished during a mission from Malta to Alexandria, Egypt, on April 27, 1942, according to the Royal Navy. Historians believe that the submarine was sunk by German and Italian [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}