Divers find HMS Nottingham 109 years after it was sunk

Divers have found the wreckage of a Royal Navy warship in the North Sea – more than 100 years after it was sunk during World War One.

HMS Nottingham was identified 60 miles off the coast of Scotland by a team of ten divers led by ProjectXplore, an international project that aims to locate historically-significant shipwrecks around the UK.

Thirty-eight crew members were killed when the 457ft ship was torpedoed by a German submarine on 19 August 1916.

Its resting place, at a depth of 82 metres, remained a mystery until ProjectXplore documented the site this month.

The team said it had “no doubt” about the ship’s identity due to its name stamp, dimensions, equipment and condition, which matched reports about the circumstances of the attack.