Welcome to the Project Tiger blog. This project has been running since 2010, and we though that it was about time we entered the modern world and made a blog for it.
The project aims to document and record the shipwrecks from a World War 2 exercise which was practicing for the D-Day landings. 9 LST's (Landing Ships for Tanks) were in convoy in Lyme Bay, Dorset on the night of 27th April, 1944 when they were attacked by 9 German Schnellboots from Cherbourg.
Two LST's, LST507 and LST 531 were sunk, and over 700 men lost their lives. It was a huge tragedy, of course, but the lessons learned ultimately helped make the real D-Day landings on the Normandy beaches a success.
We will post more of the history, our dives on these wrecks along with photos and video records of what we find as the project progresses.
To follow us on facebook, catch up with us on our Project Tiger page...
http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/ProjectTiger1944
On Wednesday 27th June at 19.30 Richard Bass, author of Exercise Tiger and narrator in the TV documentary about the disaster http://www.channel5.com/shows/revealed/episodes/the-secret-d-day-scandal-revealed will be talking at the Breakwater Hotel. everyone welcome - finger buffet and bar available.
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