WWI Australia submarine wreck found off PNG

A handout photo received on December 21, 2017, from the Royal Australian Navy shows the wreckage of Australian submarine HMAS AE1 located in waters off the Duke of York Island group in Papua New Guinea. -AFP / Royal Australian Navy

SYDNEY: Australia’s most enduring military mystery has been solved after the wreckage of the country’s first submarine was found more than a century after vanishing off Papua New Guinea’s coast, officials said Thursday.

HMAS AE1, the first of two E Class submarines built for the Royal Australian Navy, vanished on 14 September, 1914 near the Duke of York Islands with 35 crew members from Australia, Britain and New Zealand on board.