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Tom Metcalfe

World War I British warship that sank in a surprise U-boat attack 110 years ago discovered in North Sea

An underwater photo of a shipwreck with sea life growing along it.

Shipwreck hunters in Scotland have located the wreck of a British warship that was sunk by a German U-boat in the North Sea nearly 110 years ago.

They said the wreckage is that of HMS Hawke, a 387-foot-long (118 meters) cruiser that quickly sank with 524 people on board after it was hit by a torpedo from the sub on Oct. 15, 1914.

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