SYDNEY: Australia’s most enduring military mystery has been solved after the wreckage of the country’s first submarine was found more than a century after vanishing off Papua New Guinea’s coast, officials said Thursday. The vessel was the first Allied submarine loss in World War I and its disappearance marked Australia’s oldest naval mystery. “After 103 years, Australia’s oldest naval mystery has been solved,” Defence Minister Marise Payne told reporters in Sydney. The loss of AE1 in 1914 was a tragedy for our then fledgling nation.”Payne said she hoped the discovery would help investigators uncover what caused the submarine to sink. The search was jointly funded by the Australia government, the Australian National Maritime Museum, and two maritime history organisations.

Source: New Strait Times December 21, 2017 05:03 UTC