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Originally Posted by Bilge_Rat
I have looked at this some more and I see some more holes in the theory:
1. there is no record of a midget sub being scooped up in 1944 and dumped outside of the harbour. Now it is possible that the Navy did not recognize what it was and just dumped it with the LST wrecks from the West Loch disaster, but a midget sub is 80 feet long and this one was in only 3 big pieces. It is improbable that someone would not have recognized that it is not a LST;
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Your absolutely right. What
could have happened is that they recognised that it was the last midget sub, but just dumped it anyway without telling anyone, as the West Loch Disaster wasn't publicised very much, to avoid ruining morale.
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Originally Posted by Bilge_Rat
2. the wreckage lies in a straight line, bow in front followed by midsection followed by stern section, all within 180 meters of each other, exactly as you would expect if it had been scuttled and sank to the bottom. What are the odds it would land like that if the wreckage had been scooped up in West Loch and just dumped in the open ocean?
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It's unlikely that it was scuttled outside the Harbour. For one, the midget sub only carried one scuttling charge, and the dumping theory best explains the ropes attached to the submarine.