SS Storaa gets a War grave status

There are many stories related to the World War II. Some of them are being unearthed now after so many years and some of them are being fought for the rights by some people who want justice after their beloved have already laid their lives for the respective countries.

Due to the lack of information there have been instances till date where proper information about the happenings during the World War II have not been correctly reported. In one such similar cases two daughters of a petty officer aboard a ship SS Storaa had appealed in the court that the sunk ship should be called as a war grave. The reason for this being the ship was on a military duty at the time it was sunk during the war.

Due to the lack of any such status for the ship, till date divers and other people were allowed to enter the ship. Now since the two sisters have won the case and have been able to name the ship as a war grave no one will be allowed to enter the ship or get closer to its vicinity. It will now receive a full military protection. The ship was torpedoed in the year 1943 near Hastings coast.

The ship had been on a duty of transporting steel to a weapons factory in Cardiff, when it was torpedoed by German E-boats. The reason why there was no action from the MoD earlier was that they were not very sure about the ownership of the ship. The MoD consulted the lawyers before conferring such a status on the ship.

However, the sisters argued that since the ship was on war duties at the time it was destructed gave it a full reason that it should be treated as war grave other than anything else. Now after the ship is placed under military protection the ship will allow divers to see inside, but the divers will not be allowed to touch anything or to change anything inside the ship.

Any change or alteration inside the ship will be done by the MoD only and not anyone else. People will be allowed to enter the ship only on do no touch basis. After the court ruling, the sisters were happy since now they can be sure that there will be proper records maintained regarding the ship and it will not written off as just another wreck. The ship will also get proper recognition of that having participated in the World War II. Due to this reason the SS Storaa has been given the status of a war grave after some long years after the World War II was finished.

This ruling will help gather more facts about the World War II and people involved will get their correct place in the books of history. The sisters are daughters of Petty Officer James Varndell. The names of both the sisters are Rosemary Fogg and Valerie Ledgard who happen to have fought for justice for their father after so many years of the end of World War II.

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