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Shipwreck confirmed to be U.K. cruiser sunk by torpedo during World War I, killing over 500 sailors

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The wreck of the HMS Hawke was found by a volunteer team of divers this summer .

Divers found it about six miles from where officials estimated it would be in the 1970s .

The cruiser was doomed when on October 15, 1914 , she was spotted by U-9 about 80 miles east of Fraserburgh , Scotland .

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