這艘軍艦居然糊里糊塗地自投羅網!日德蘭海戰中黑太子號竟然這樣覆滅?
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British woes were not over
During the night, HMS Black Prince became separated from the British fleet
Sometime after midnight, her crew spotted what they thought were Jellicoe's ships
and fell into line
By the time they realized their mistake, it was too late
They had stumbled into the heart of the German fleet
And almost at the same instant came the word
British, salvo, fire
An immense column of fire blazed up
And a devastating fire now opened up on the whole of the enemy ship
She failed to put up any effective defense
So quickly was she overwhelmed
And then the vessel sank, almost in silence
857 men went down on Black Prince
There were no survivors
Innes is now hoping the new multi-beam technology
Might be able to solve a 100-year-old riddle
It's always been a bit of a mysterious case
Because it went down in the middle of the night
There's practically no information on the British side about what happened to it
And where it is, is in an area where the underwater visibility isn't particularly good
He wants to establish whether the severed piece of wreckage
Is the front or the rear of the ship
If he can figure out which way she was sailing when she was hit
He might be able to shed new light on the last moments of the men on board
This time, the multi-beam doesn't provide any answers
The team decide to use the Remotely Operated Vehicle, or ROV, with its onboard camera
We have the multi-beam and we can target the ROV right to a specific point
We'll see if we can work out which end of this wreck is which
And then finally close the book on what the Black Prince was doing
At the moment that it was sunk
This site has been dived, but I bet you this piece never has
You're probably the first people ever to see this
That's brilliant, Gert. That's fantastic
Coupled with the multi-beam scan
The ROV images enable Innes to answer for the first time
What happened during Black Prince's last moments
The question has always been
To what extent did the ship manage to extricate itself from this absolute nightmare
The images reveal that the crew realised their mistake
In a desperate bid to escape, they managed to turn the ship around
Too late
