Illustrative photo of the German warship Karlsruhe -
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After 80 years under the sea, a German warship named Karlsruhe was discovered off the coast of Norway during an operation carried out by teams from Statnett, the operator of the public electricity grid, reports CNN.
The light cruiser had been sunk by a torpedo during the attack on the town of Kristiansand in 1940.
The wreckage of a Nazi warship, the cruiser Karlsruhe, has been discovered off the coast of #Norway.
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- Courrier inter (@courrierinter) September 8, 2020
It was found at a depth of about 488 meters below sea level. 571 feet long - about 175 meters - this ship "still bears the swastika".
It was sunk during the invasion of the Nordic country by Nazi Germany in 1940.
" Nobody knew "
It all started three years ago, when sonar detected traces of this boat during inspection work on an underwater electric cable installed between Norway and Denmark.
During that summer, an engineer from Statnett decided to continue the research using a robot.
“When the results showed us a ship that had been torpedoed, we understood it was from the war,” said Ole Petter Hobberstad, the engineer behind the new research.
“When the guns appeared on the screen, we understood that it was a huge warship,” he said.
“You can learn the history of Karlsruhe from history books, but no one knew exactly where it sank,” said Frode Kvalø, archaeologist and researcher at the Norwegian Maritime Museum.
"It is the only large German warship that was lost in the attack on Norway whose position was unknown," he added.
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