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More than 700 letters from soldiers writing home to loved ones were hauled from the depths of a shipwreck, revealing life during the Second World War. The Gairsoppa was steaming home from India to Liverpool to deliver vital silver to fund the war efforts when she was hit by a Nazi U-boat on February 14, 1941. She sank in icy seas more than three miles deep near the coast of Ireland. Only one of her 84 crew survived. The ship, carrying lots of letters home, never reached its destination.
In 2011, The American deep-sea exploration pioneers Odyssey Marine Exploration discovered the long-lost wreck of the Gairsoppa 4,700 metres under the Atlantic Ocean. Remote control submarines searched for four hours to reach the wreck where teacups, sheets of silk and even bottles of tomato ketchup and HP sauce were found. Along with £150 million worth of silver and enough tea to fuel two thirds of the British population, twelve boxes of mail were preserved in an air pocket in the ship’s wreckage.
A total of 717 letters, the largest collection ever found at sea, were hauled from the depths of the ocean in the ship offering a unique insight into the extraordinary circumstances of British people stationed in India. Most of the soldiers whose letters sank with the ship were stationed on the remote edge of British India’s North-West Frontier province.
Some letters are being displayed in an exhibition called Voice from the Deep at the Postal Museum in London. Barbara Bhorgese, a conservator at the Postal Museum said “A lot of the letters came to me in little pieces. They were in the bottom of the ocean where the pressure is very heavy. The reason why you can still see writing is because the pressure at the bottom of the sea. They were so squeezed together that what was in middle got preserved remarkably well considering 70 years in salty water.”

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