A Love Letter Found 77 Years After a Ship Sank in WWII Reveals an Incredible Survival Story

Lost in the Wreckage

The letters recovered from the deep are now part of a tear-jerking exhibition called “Voices from the Deep” at London’s Postal Museum. The ship sank almost about 15,400ft to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.

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Source: Wessex News Agency

It killed 83 of the 84 crew members, about 300 miles off the coast of Galway, Ireland. The large collection of letters were all from India, most of them were directed to sweethearts back home. Incredibly, the condition they were found in was almost perfect.

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