Submarine Surfaces in the Middle of a City – Then Maintenance Workers Peek Inside

The contents of the crate

After three weeks, a Freedom of Information application, a parliamentary question from an MP who had read the newspaper piece, and the threatened publication of a second story, the Ministry of Defence gave a statement. The statement was barely three sentences, in a press release issued on a Friday afternoon. They said that the crate recovered from the submarine had contained technical documentation and prototype components related to a classified wartime acoustic science research.