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Surveyors Find Sunken WWI Battleship

Danton in top condition deep under Mediterranean

By Matt Cantor,  Newser Staff

Posted Feb 19, 2009 11:02 AM CST

(Newser) – A French battleship famously sunk by Germans in World War I has been found in “extraordinary” condition on the Mediterranean Sea floor, the BBC reports. A geosciences firm came upon the Danton while surveying the waters between Italy and Algeria for a planned gas...   Read full story »

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