The team discovered that on the afternoon of 13 December 1917, HMS Stephen Furness was in the Northern Irish Sea en route to Liverpool for repairs when it was hit by a single torpedo fired from UB-64, which had been patiently stalking the Irish Sea for a while. opportunity like this for several days.

The torpedo impact caused an explosion that caused the ship to sink within three minutes.

From that day, until now, the location of the attack and the final resting place of HMS Stephen Furness remained a mystery.

The team also discovered that about a month after the sinking, four crew members who lost their lives during the attack were washed up along the coast of North Wales, almost a hundred miles to the south.

Archived weather data was used to understand how this happened and examine what could happen in other similar scenarios.

The new information from this discovery will allow researchers to explore beyond simple narratives of blockade and submarine warfare, and engage directly with the people involved, the lives they led, and the sacrifices they made.