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Shipwreck Ark Royal (BBC doc) 2006

Divers filming a BBC documentary found the wreck of HMS Ark Royal, the famous wartime aircraft carrier. 
The aircraft carrier became famous when its torpedo planes hit the German battleship Bismarck during the Second World War, allowing other British warships to close in and sink her. 

HMS Ark Royal sank in the Mediterranean, but after that 1941 victory, the vessel herself was torpedoed by the German submarine U-81, 30 miles off Gibraltar. Divers found her lying in 3,500ft of water - where she had been resting for the past 61 years. When she sank she had been returning Hurricane aircraft fighter crews to Malta. One sailor died while the rest of the 1,500 crew were picked up by other ships as the famous ship went down on November 13, 1941. The ship was was commissioned on 16 November 1938 and took up a name famous in naval history. 

The programme was made by producer Mike Rossiter who filmed the raising of Donald Campbell"s Bluebird boat, in a BBC1 documentary. 

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