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Mystery as Unmanned £300,000 Spy Ship Washes Up Off UK - and No Country is Claiming It

The Wave Glider stealth vessel is made in the US and is only used by the Americans and the Royal Navy - but the Ministry of Defence says it doesn't belong to Britain

BBC News, 13 OCT. 2020

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The Coastguard was called to an object in the water on September 28 (Image: facebook.com/MCA)

Mystery surrounds the discovery of an unmanned £300,000 spy ship which has been washed up off the British coastline on a remote Scottish island.

A US-made Wave Glider stealth vessel was discovered on the coast of Tiree, a small island located on the far west of the inner Hebrides two weeks ago.

Although the boat is only used by the US and the Royal Navy, no country has come forward to claim the vessel and the Ministry of Defence has said that it does not belong to them.

Now naval sources believe the spy boat could have been deployed by the Russians to spy on the movement of British nuclear subs.

The robot boat looks like a 10ft surf board covered in solar panels and antennae.

The Wave Glider is coloured dark grey and does not have any navigation lights which is a legal requirement for all ships at sea which suggest it was on an intelligence gathering mission.....:hmm:

The £300,000 vessel is made by a sister company of the US defence giant Boeing and is only known to be used by the British and US military.

It was first developed around 10-years ago but a more updated and technically sophisticated version was launched in 2017.

But it has also emerged that the Russian Navy developed a near-clone of the Wave Glider called Fugu in 2016 – if this one is Russian, it might explain why it has not been claimed.

The stealth ship was designed to covertly enter enemy or hostile territory and monitor the movement of submarines or coastlines regarded as too dangerous for manned vessels.

Because of the vessel’s very low profile it can sit just outside military naval bases and monitor the movement of ships and subs.

It can deploy on intelligence gathering missions for months on end and is understood to have completed a 10,000 mile voyage from San Francisco in the United States to Australia.

The vessel can only travel at very slow speeds, between two and three knots, which is one of its major limitations, and can struggle in strong tidal currents.

Wave Gliders have satellite communication and usually maintain regular contact with a shore-based operator.

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The mysterious vessel has washed up on the Isle of Tiree (Image: facebook.com/MCA)

Given the slow speed, the operators should be able to track the vessel closely which adds to the mystery as to why this one has not been claimed.

Tiree is located around 100 miles north west of Her Majesty’s Naval Base (HMNB) Clyde at Faslane, Helensburgh- the operating base for the UK’s fleet of nuclear submarines.

This includes the Vanguard class which carries the U.K.’s Trident nuclear deterrent as well as the nuclear-powered Astute and Trafalgar hunter-killer classes.

The Wave Glider may have been involved in an exercise to see whether these subs could be detected leaving the base.

One Royal Navy source last night said: “This is all a bit fishy. It’s not every day that an unmanned spy ship is found washed up on the shore of a small island. In all likelihood it belongs to the US but that begs the question why it has not been claimed. There is a possibility that it belongs to Russia but even if it does they will never admit it. They do have various stealth vessels similar to the Wave Glider so it’s not beyond the bounds of possibility that it’s Russian.”

The vessel was discovered on September 28th by Tiree Coastguard who posted the following message when the vessel was found: “The team were called today to reports of an object in the water, once on scene we secured the item. We are currently trying to find out some more information as to the object’s origin and owner. If anyone has any information please get in touch.”

The Receiver of Wreck, the UK official who deals with salvage cases and establishes ownership, is also now involved in the case.