This site was originally suggested to Captain Nagle by a local fishing boat captain who was curious about the site he had been fishing for years. On Septemthe late Captain Bill Nagle and John Chatterton led a team of experienced amateur shipwreck divers on an expedition to explore an unknown wreck at a site approximately 60 miles east of Point Pleasant, New Jersey.

The reported sinking of the U-869 at this location off Gibraltar is incorrect. Prior to this date, it has been universally agreed that the U-869 was sunk in action at 34º 30’ North Latitude, 8º 30’ West Longitude, by the US Destroyer Escort Fowler and the French Submarine Chaser L’Indiscret on February 28, 1945. The U-869 was built at the Deschimag shipyard in Bremen and commissioned into the German Navy on January 26, 1944. This information positively identifies the wreck of a submarine located approximately sixty miles off the New Jersey coast at 39º 34’ North Latitude, 73º 02’ West Longitude, as the World War II German Submarine U-869. The information contained in this report was developed by the authors over a six year period with the assistance of numerous other divers, historians, and war veterans. Final Report on the Location and Identification of the World War II German Submarine U-869īy John Chatterton, Richard Kohler, and John Yurga INTRODUCTION

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