Just months after the sightings of Russian submarines turned out to be false, Sweden seems to be at it again. On Monday, a Swedish team of underwater explorers claimed to have discovered the wreck of a WWI Russian submersible that sank as far back as 1916.
"They finally found a Russian submarine in Sweden's waters. The suspicions of [Swedish] authorities have been confirmed – it sank there back in 1916. The search took a long time," the State Duma's head of the foreign affairs committee Alexei Pushkov joked on Twitter.
The Som-class submarines were designed by the Electric Boat Company, a subsidiary of the major US submarine manufacturer General Dynamics Corporation. The first Som watercraft, earlier known as Fulton, was transported to Russia and delivered to Vladivostok in 1904. A total of seven Som-class subs were built for the Imperial Russian Navy in 1904-1907.
Anyway, "ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find."
