Salvage crew lifts anchor from gun-runner wreck

An anchor has been recovered from the wreck of the 1916 German gun-running ship scuttled off the south coast of Ireland.

Salvage crew lifts anchor from gun-runner wreck

An anchor has been recovered from the wreck of the 1916 German gun-running ship scuttled off the south coast of Ireland.

The Aud, a former English merchant vessel captured by the Germans, was sunk after a failed attempt to deliver a shipment of arms to Irish Republicans during the Easter Rising.

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