After years of painstaking research, diving company partner Kevin Heath has discovered the wrong German submarine has been blamed for the sinking of the SS Ruby in World War I, reports PressandJournal.
What Happened ?At around 10am on March 29 1917, the small cargo ship was making a routine trip back to Kirkwall from Leith when she hit a mine laid by a German U-boat.
She sank, killing six of the seven men on board. All that is known of the lucky survivor to this day is that he was from Wick.
Now –...
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