Nazi wraps the mystery to the torpedo

The sheet of series, vital to identify the origin of the appliance found in waters of Udra, continues missing person and the Navy gives for fact of which it will not be.

The unknowns concerning the origin of the torpedo discovered by the divers of the club of Bueu last week will continue in foot. At least nothing seems to indicate that they should be going to clear up to shortly, not half a term. Perhaps never do it. The spokesman of the Naval School, José Luis Guitart, stressed yesterday that the Spanish Navy has no information on the origin of this bullet of training.

The remains of the appliance are too damaged. The military divers of Ferrol that recovered it of the rocky fund in which it was, to 19 meters deep along with the Mourisca lighthouse, checked quite the area in the operative one without finding a fundamental piece. It is a question of a small badge with the numeration of his mass production.

The specialists only have clear the identification of the torpedo as a G-7 alpha. His manufacture is German and it proceeds of a previous epoch when the Nazi were already domineering Germany or of the Second proper World war. For major calmness of insiders and outsiders, the Navy confirmed that the appliance buenense never had explosive charge and that it was used only for training works.

Here it is where the mystery remains. The badge would serve to be able to date it, check the Spanish files and to be able to have the certainty if the Naval School used it for practices with the pupils or if it comes from some maneuver of other navies in exterior waters to the Spaniards. Guitart highlighted that if the torpedo comes from the trainings of the Naval School it cannot be later to 1948, which was the year in which the last one of these tests was realized.

To favor of the current

For the characteristics of the model of the appliance, any specialists do not believe either that it could come from the maneuvers of the Antequera in exterior waters.

The presence of this torpedo in laughs he can explain himself with two reasons. It had to trump the reflotamiento device so that the military ship that threw it was not recovering it. The appliance could be shot inside laugh and to finish in the fund when the fuel finished him in the decade of 1930 or 1940. Also it could be thrown from some military ship out and stay between waters. The strong currents of the Atlantic Ocean could drag it up to the interior of laugh and to deposit it in Udra, when the waters calmed down.

The Navy still has not decided that it will do with the torpedo. In the beginning it thought of being exhibited in a museum, but it is too damaged, party in three parts. The helix and his bow are completely ruined.

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