"The new Advantage 100 system and AE2 Advantage engine provide a whole new group of customers access to Cognex products," said Cognex vice president and business unit manager for vision software and sensors, Joerg Kuechen.
"The discovery that a distant relative of mine captained the AE2 led me to find out about the fate of the sister submarine, AE1, Captain Thomas Besant and the fact it was captained by a Liverpool man named Thomas Besant.
Four of AE2's crew died in camps in Turkey at Belemedik and Bozanti in the Taurus Mountains where they were forced to work building a rail line to link Berlin to Baghdad via Constantinople.
Stoker C Suckling, who died in 1983, aged 92, was the last of the AE2 to die; his latter years were blind caused by the beatings to his head as a prisoner of the Turks.