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A team of Polish divers found the wreckage of the German steamboat “Karlsruhe”, dating from the time of World War II, but the surprise was that it was almost completely intact.
Soviet aircraft bombed and sank the ship in the Baltic Sea in April 1945, resulting in the death of hundreds of civilians and military personnel.
The “Baltic” team, which includes 10 people, said the shipwreck is 88 meters below the surface of the water, tens of kilometers north of the Polish coastal town of Ustka.
The team added that within the wreck, military vehicles, cutlery and closed boxes were found in one of the ship’s holds, all in good condition.
And the group “Baltic” published on its Facebook page photos taken underwater of what looks like a military vehicle in good condition, commenting on it saying: “It seems that after months of searching, we have finally found the remains of the ship Karlsruhe “.
The divers explained that they had seen Allied forces documents and German documents detailing the ship’s fate, noting that they had spent more than a year searching for it, believing it to be one of the “most interesting stories yet to be revealed in the bottom of the Baltic Sea “.
The documents say Karlsruhe was built in 1905, at the Sepik Shipyard in Bremerhaven, according to the Associated Press.
When World War II came to an end, the ship was annexed to Operation Hannibal, which evacuated German and Nazi forces from the Konigsberg region in eastern Russia, while the Soviet Red Army advanced and took control of the city.
On April 11, the ship left the port of Pilau, now called Baltisk Harbor in Russia, with 150 members of the Hermann Goering regiment, 25 railway workers, 888 civilians including children, in addition to hundreds of tons of cargo.
The next day, at Port Hill, the ship joined a convoy heading for the German port of Schweinmünde, now known as the port of “winwijsche” in Poland.
On the morning of April 13, 1945, Soviet planes spotted the German ship and bombed it, only to sink in three minutes.
The convoy managed to rescue about 113 of its passengers, out of the 1,083 people on board, according to a German telegram intercepted by Britain, which appears in Nazi naval documents and testimonies of survivors kept in German archives.
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