The U-246 sank in 1945
A group of divers is set to place a memorial plaque at the wreckage of a German U-boat.
The U-246 sank off the southwest coast of the Isle of Man in 1945 .
Adrian Corkhill, a local shipwreck researcher, told Manx Radio he was contacted by Josef Schroer whose great uncle, Johannes Huls, was on-board the ship:
Mr Schroer says it was when he and his father were researching their ancestry that they decided to find out more about their relative:
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