WW2 warship mystery SOLVED as navy vessel torpedoed by Nazis killing 100 is found after wreck snags on fishermen’s net A WORLD War Two warship mystery has finally been solved after the wreck snagged on a fisherman's net.
The Vital de Oliveira had been lost to history for 81 years until a fisherman's net became tangled in one of the ship's guns.
The Vital de Oliveira had disappeared for 81 years after it was torpedoed by the Nazis killing 100 people.
This war boat had been the only Brazilian Navy vessel lost to the enemy in World War Two when it sank in 1944.
This incredible shipwreck was found some 40 miles off shore from the municipality of Macaé, Brazil - around 100 miles north of Rio de Janeiro.
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