Some 524 people, including the ship’s captain, perished when the HMS Hawke went down in the North Sea off the eastern coast of Scotland in 1914.
, which chronicles naval losses around Scotland by the United Kingdom’s Royal Navy and other countries during the conflict. “She’s a big ship. And it’s one of the first ships lost in World War I.”A shipwreck hunter, Heath said he found a map in an old German logbook that pointed him to where the sunken vessel could be located, roughly 70 miles east of Fraserburgh.had been taking part in the Allied blockade of Germany when it was torpedoed and sunk in the early days of World War I.
Earlier this month, Heath teamed up with a group of divers called the Gasperados and set out on the dive vessel Clasina in search of theBritish warship HMSis seen circa 1910. It was used as a converted depot ship for destroyers and submarines during World War I and sunk by a German submarine in the North Sea on October 15, 1914.“We’re sitting there waiting, waiting, waiting. Excited. You know, are they going to say, ‘oh it is a rock’ or ‘it’s not the Hawke’?” he said.
Some of the wood on the deck was still intact, the divers recounted. The team quickly reported the discovery to the UK Hydrographic Office and the Royal Navy, which Heath hopes will give the site a protected status.as well as profiles of the victims for his website in the coming weeks. After the BBC published a story about the discovery, he said he received around 30 emails from family members of sailors who died on the ship, telling their stories and sharing photographs.
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