XT-Craft Midget Submarines
When it is low tide, you will be able to see the two Royal Naval XT class midget submarines hailing from the Second World War. To be accurate, you will see their corroded and wrecked skeletons on the eastern coast of Aberlady Bay, Scotland. They were part of T-Training vessels made by the Vickers’ Armstrong Ltd during the early ‘40s. The subs carried out a highly dangerous and challenging mission against the Tirpitz battleship of the Kriegsmarine in September of 1943. The crews succeeded with their task, which then led the Royal Navy and Air Force to sink the Tirpitz the following year. Two of these subs were brought to Aberlady Bay, where they were moored. The RAF kept using it for tests and practices.
XT-Craft Midget Submarines
Sazan Island
Sazan is a small island off the Albanian coast and once the home of Soviet Whiskey-class submarines. It has since been abandoned, from the obsolete vessels to the networks of tunnels running underneath it. The Soviets operated their biological and chemical weapon plants there, although Albania later seized the base after leaving the Warsaw Pact in 1968. It increased their navy by a significant amount, of course. When the ‘90s rolled in, the subs were already outdated, so they were neglected and then abandoned together with the base. All you will find there now is a barren base against a wonderful landscape. As a surprise to no one, there are plans to convert it into a tourist destination in the future.
Sazan Island
