World War 2 mystery blown open as divers say they’ve found wreck of Royal Navy submarine

Hopes of closure were teased back in 2003, when a wreck located off of the coast of Barletta — some 70 miles north of Monopoli — was initially identified as the Regent. Further analysis, however, revealed that the vessel was actually the Giovanni Bausan, an Italian submarine that was converted into an oil depot before finally being used for target practice.”

Dick Trice said that the notion that the Regent sank off Barletta never rang true, given where the four bodies of her crew were washed up. He added: “If you put it off Monopoli, everything lines up perfectly. If you put it off the other town, it doesn’t work.

“They gave the ultimate sacrifice and I think it’s important for the families to get closure, and I think it’s important from a historical viewpoint. As a family, we are really grateful to Fabio for his efforts to go and find this wreck so we finally know what happened.

“It doesn’t bring the person back, you’re not going to change that fact. But we would at least like to know what really happened.”

Additional reporting by Michael Havis.

Article source: https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1698784/hms-regent-ww2-british-submarine-mystery-vanish-solved-italy-history