The secrets of the shipwreck of the British submarine “Floreal” and the shipwreck of the British submarine “HMS TROOPER” are revealed to the general public, this time at an open event in Thessaloniki. As part of the 2025 Naval Week, which has this year as the slogan “Greece in PLO”, the Thessaloniki Guard Club will be presented the entire study of two Greek researchers on two nights full of naval history. In the shadow of the White Tower, images, archival material and stories about Thessaloniki of World War II, and the Naval War of World War II in the Southeast Mediterranean will be presented, while attendees will be able to visit a special exhibition.
The presentation will concern one section of the PLUVIOS submarine (Q 54) class that sank at 03:25, about ten miles west of Kassandra in the early morning of 2/8/1918. Floreal, a design by the French engineer Maxime Laubeuf, was locked up on April 18, 1907 in Herbourg and entered service on June 16, 1908. It was a submarine with global innovations such as the double -hull and dual -dual -dual -duplicate. An elegant 51 -meter -long creation and a 553 -ton displacement in dive, Floreal hosted 25 crew members and had joined the French Channel’s French Squadron, with the main mission being an anti -submarine patrol. This submarine acted on the Channel almost throughout the war in anti -submarine patrols, but arrived in the Mediterranean and Thessaloniki in the spring of 1918, when Russia’s capitulation left the fate of the Black Sea fleet unclear. What happened in the early morning of the 2nd August 1918, when the Floreal submarine sailed from Thessaloniki to Patras will be presented for the first time as a whole on Friday, July 4 at 20:00 at the Thessaloniki Officers Club.
On Saturday, July 5 at 8pm in LAFTH will be followed by the presentation of the action before the loss of HMS TROOPER (N91) in the Aegean in October 1943. TROOPER was one of the seven submarines of the second submarine class ‘T’ He was in Greenock, Scotland on March 5, 1942, entered service on August 29, 1942 and was declared lost on October 20, 1943, when his traces were lost … The discovery of the HMS TROOPER wreck by the Ocean research vessel. Researchers Kostas Thoktaridis and Spyrou Vougidis and the event will present the action of the submarine on the Ionian and Adriatic, his operational activity from Malta to Algiers, the seventh submarine patrol from August 19 and 19 Evening, on the night of the 30th of September 1943. Then Trooper landed on the coast of Kalamos of Euboea by Major Diamantopoulos of the British SOE service, Lieutenant Vei and a British wireless named “Thomas” with 400 pounds: Its brave crew before it reaches sinking into Greek waters. What eventually happened to them? The answer to the question is given by the event at 8pm on Saturday night at the open event for the common event. Maritime research has been fruitful and attributed images, elements and videos to be presented for the first time enriched with the Greek public at the Thessaloniki Officers Club.
Source: Skai
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