German WWI U-boat resurfaces off French coast

Editor | January 13, 2019 | World | No Comments

(CNN)Low tides have revealed a relic from World War I — the skeleton of a German U-boat visible again off the coast of northern France.

The metal frame of a UC 61 can be seen about 100 meters (more than 300 feet) from the sand dunes of Wissant, France just down the coast of Calais in the North Sea, according to the news agency Agence France-Presse. The submarine ran aground on July 26, 1917.

Vincent Schmitt, a tour guide in the area, told AFP that “it is visible at low tide generally…because of the erosion we are experiencing.”