Antonis Grafas is a professional diver, teaming with various diving crews, organizations and the Hellenic Navy in search of shipwrecks. In 2003, he located the Italian Monrosa shipwreck, a cargo steam ship shot by the English submarine HMS Triumph in 1941 in the Saronic Gulf. A year later, again in the same area, Grafas spotted the Trabzon shipwreck. On 14th April 1941, the Turkish ship was bombed while sailing from Istanbul to Piraeus.

Recently, Grafas has added another World War II shipwreck to his list, this time, unfolding an interesting story behind a small craft which was sunk twice during the war. The British TLC (Tank Landing Craft) Mark 1 was used during the World War II in the Mediterranean Sea, as a vessel that helped the vehicles disembark directly on the shore.

In 1941, the British tried to pull out from Greece, in light of the Greek army's surrender to the Axis. During the operation "Demon," a plan to evacuate Crete, the German Airforce bombed the TLC Mark 1 and sank it. Immediately after, the German Navy had many of the sunken vessels towed, fixed and integrated to the German Navy, because it was short of vessels. In 1944, during another evacuation operation, this time by the Germans, the vessel was bombed again by its previous owners, the British.

Watch the videos: Trebzon shipwreck & Monrosa shipwreck & LOKFÄHRE, former British TLC Mark1