Iberdrola Engineers Find WW1 German U-Boat off Scottish Coast
- Engineers working on subsea power cable find 100-year old boat
- Submarine is one of two known to have been sunk in the area
A sonar image of the wreck of a German submarine from world war one.
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Marine engineers working on a 1 billion-pound ($1.2 billion) subsea power cable off the west coast of Scotland have found the wreck of a German submarine from World War One.
Experts have identified the 100-year-old vessel as UB-85 using sonar images, Scottish Power, the U.K. unit of Iberdrola SA, said in a statement. Scottish Power, with National Grid Plc, are building the 2,200-megawatt cable to carry electricity from wind farms in Scotland to England.