Did Loch Ness Monster’s saltwater cousin sink German U-boat UB-85 for the British in 1918?
Engineers discovered wreck of the vessel off Scottish coast this week, reviving legend of the sea serpent's attack
A REDISCOVERED German U-boat whose captain insisted it was sunk by a sea serpent could have been attacked by Loch Ness's saltwater cousin, it has been claimed.
UB-85 was finally found off the west coast of Scotland this week nearly 100 years since it was scuttled in the final months of the First World War.
No German sailors went down with the 56-metre vessel and its captain Günther Krech reported being attacked by a large sea creature when captured by the Royal Navy.
Under questioning by British forces he went on to describe how the ship's gunners fired at the mysterious creature's arms.
But the ship was so badly damaged it could no longer dive beneath the waves - exposing it to the British fleet.
He described a horned beast that possessed glinting eyes and small deep-set eyes.
The site of the wreck lies around 200 miles south of the Loch - which is connected to the sea via the River Lochy.
The area was littered with German U-boats which were trying to cut off British supplies lines and starve the country into submission.
More than 351 vessels sunk around 5,000 Allied merchant ships during the course of the war.
The legend of the Loch Ness Monster captured the world's imagination in 1933 when a picture taken by a London doctor caught what appeared to be a long-necked animal swimming through the giant body of water.
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