D-Day ship founders off English Coast
02/03/2011
Of the approximately 5,000 Allied ships that participated in the Normandy landings that opened the D-Day invasion of Nazi-occupied France in June 1944, just seven ships remained at the start of 2011.
That number has been reduced by one, as the Yarmouth Navigator, a former British Navy minesweeper and patrol boat, sank en route to restoration earlier this week.
The ship was being moved to a new mooring after a years-long campaign to save it, according to The Telegraph.
One crewman was lost in the sinking while three others were rescued from the waters off Plymouth Sound, in the south of England.
