The wreck of a
British submarine, which vanished at the height of World War Two, has been discovered lying at the bottom of the sea off Malta, university marine archaeologists said on Thursday.
HMS Urge had been based with other submarines in Malta and had carried out several deadly missions when the British navy ordered it and rest of the flotilla to redeploy to
Egypt because of a relentless German siege of the Mediterranean island.
A team from the University of Malta, which has spent two decades surveying the local seas, said that at the request of the grandson of Urge's commander, they combed an area this summer that had once been heavily mined by Nazi forces.