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Discovering the first ship sunk in World War Two
The SS Athenia was a passenger liner sunk just seven hours after World War Two was declared. Shipwreck hunter David Means tells the story of how the ship was torpedoed by a German U Boat in September 1939 and reveals that he may have found the wreck.
(Image: SS Athenia in Montreal Harbour, Credit: National Archives of Canada.)
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