The last missing ship from the Battle of Jutland has been found in the North Sea 100 years after it was sunk in combat with Germany.

HMS Warrior was recently discovered 90 yards under the sea a century after it was abandoned due to the heavy damage it took from enemy shelling.

The Battle of Jutland is regarded as the only major naval battle of the First World War and involved 100,000 men and 250 ships, with almost 9,000 sailors killed on both sides during the 36-hour conflict.

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The wreck of HMS Warrior, pictured, has been discovered 100 years after it sank after being heavily damaged at the Battle of Jutland in 1916

Underwater cameras captured the vessel on the sea floor, with the rusted propellers visible, pictured

The remains of Warrior were found in the sea halfway between Scotland and Norway

It claimed the lives of more than 6,000 British sailors and 2,500 Germans, with the Royal Navy losing 14 ships and the then-German Empire losing 11.

Warrior was heavily damaged during the battle in which 71 crew members lost their lives.

According to a letter written by its captain Vincent Barkly Molteno, the ship came under fire from nine German ships for 17-and-a-half minutes before it retired from battle.

The surviving crew of 743 were transferred to HMS Engadine, who also tried to tow HMS Warrior back to Britain.

Because of the extensive damage and bad weather HMS Warrior had to be abandoned.

It sank in an unknown position on June 1, 1916.

Although it has been underwater for 100 years, museum experts said it remained in good condition and was an 'untouched time capsule'

What was once a home for more than 700 sailors is now inhabited by fish and sea creatures

The wreck was discovered between Scotland and Norway on August 24 by survey vessel M/S Vina on behalf of the Sea War Museum Jutland in Denmark.

Footage showed it has become a home for fish and other sea creatures after lying untouched on the seabed for decades.

Its propellers, gun turrets and part of the mast are visible in the video and experts believe the boat hit the sea floor mast-first after sinking.

HMS WARRIOR AT A GLANCE Length: 505ft Beam (width): 73ft Draught (depth): 27ft Weight: 13,550 tonnes Propulsion: Four steam engines Top speed: 23 knots (26mph) Weapons: Six 234mm naval guns, four 191mm naval guns, 26 47mm artillery guns, three 450mm torpedo tubes Advertisement

A spokesman for the museum said: 'Unlike the other wrecks from the Battle of Jutland, which show varying degrees of environmental damage and commercial salvage, HMS Warrior remains as an untouched time capsule with all of its contents still present, entombed in the upturned hull.

'The old armoured ship is for now, at least retaining its itegrity and is the last Jutland wreck in an untouched condition.'

The spokesman added: 'The find was made on an expedition with M/S Vina from JD-Contractor for Sea War Museum in Thyborøn in collaboration with Dr Innes McCartney of Bournemouth University.

'One of the tasks of the expedition was to find HMS Warrior. Hence, the search was based on the towed route and the official positions of the abandonment.

'In total 30 wrecks on the route were found and investigated, and HMS Warrior was the 27th wreck investigated.

'A multibeam survey of the wreck was conducted and video recordings were made with a Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) circumventing the wreck.

More than 700 sailors were rescued as the armoured cruiser was abandoned but 71 were killed during the German bombardment

Sea War Museum Jutland has since created a 3D image of the wreck, which hit the sea floor mast-first

'YOUR COURAGE WAS MAGNIFICENT' SAID WARRIOR CAPTAIN The captain of HMS Warrior - Vincent Barkly Molteno - wrote to his surviving sailors the day after it sank to commend them on their bravery. Captain Vincent Barkly Molteno, pictured, said he was proud of his men's courage during the battle A letter, kept by former Royal Navy head Lord Boyce, himself the grandson of Warrior petty officer Alfred Boyce, revealed the captain's pride in those under his command, according to the Guardian. In it, he wrote that his men 'behaved magnificently' and their 'courage had been magnificent' during the battle and that he had written to the Admiralty asking to keep his 700-plus crew together so he could captain them again. He also asked for 10 days leave for each of those who served on the sunken ship so they could go ashore, see friend and family and be 'cock-a-chest'. Captain Molteno manoeuvred the vessel out of harms way after the heavy attack from nine Germany ships, saving the lives of the majority of his crew. After the battle he was awarded the Order of St Anna by the Russians, recognising his bravery. Advertisement

'Along the side of the ship in several places it is possible to see the deck, where the base of several of the big gun turrets are visible.

'One of the ship’s masts is lying on the seabed on the ships’ port side. The mast was broken during the collision with the seabed, and the top part of the mast is folded under the wreckage.

'Thus, it was quite evident that the ship had hit the seabed upside down, and that the ship had sunk down onto the mast.'

Lord Boyce, pictured, former head of the Royal Navy, has hit out at 'vandals' scavenging metals from sunken war wrecks and compared it to desecrating military cemeteries

The discovery comes as former head of the Navy Lord Boyce has called for a crackdown on illegal scavenging of metal from wrecks on the seabed, comparing such action to stealing headstones from military cemeteries.

Lord Boyce, whose grandfather Albert Boyce was a petty officer aboard HMS Warrior, told the Guardian: 'I absolutely believe that criminals should be pursued to discourage others as much as anything else.

'When an underwater grave is found, eg HMS Warrior, and it is given respect, it is good for the people in the navy today to know that one day they will be recognised if your boat is found and is being respected as a grave.'

It is understood several wrecks from the Battle of Jutland have been raided for their bronze propellers and other precious metals, which can be worth up to £65,000 when melted down.

The sunken ships that remain in the North Sea after the battle are supposed to be protected from British salvage crews under the Protection of Military Remains Act 1986, which made it illegal for them to be disturbed.

The Ministry of Defence said it 'strongly condemned' the disturbance of any maritime remains and urged anyone who witnesses or knows of such action to report it.