"The loss of the Imperial German 10th Torpedo Boat Flotilla" Topic

"Sometimes big and important events in maritime history are forgotten. The local communities that these events concerned may remember across generations, whereas the general public might be totally unaware that these events ever took place. In the Gulf of Finland, virtually unknown has been the catastrophic loss of seven out of eleven German destroyers (S57, V75, G90, S58, S59, V72 and V74) to mines in November 1916 during World War I. These 80 metre long ships were actually called torpedo boats, but were in many ways equivalent of contemporary destroyers of other navies, hence the name "destroyer". While being the most advanced torpedo boats they were also the pride of the German Navy.

The 10th torpedo boat flotilla of the Imperial German Navy (German: Kaiserliche Marine) was detailed to conduct a bombardment raid of Baltic Port (present-day Paldiski, Estonia) during November 10-11th 1916. The operation is one of the best examples to illustrate the effectiveness of mines and one of the most catastrophic maritime operations that ever took place in the Gulf of Finland. For almost one hundred years these shipwrecks had been forgotten and missing. This summer Badewanne was able to identify first two of the lost destroyers – G90 and S59. Estonian Maritime Administration had located unknown wrecks during their hydrographic surveys from an area that was promising. We were able to combine our archive and literature research with these findings and concluded, that the anomalies at these locations could quite possibly belong to the lost 10th torpedo boat flotilla. And in fact, they were…"
From here
badewanne.fi/?page_id=634

Amicalement
Armand

From Badewanne: "a non-profit organization representing a group of voluntary divers that have been documenting shipwrecks in the Gulf of Finland (known during WW II as „Badewanne") for more than 20 years."