Hundred-year discovery: Tampa, U.S. WWI cutter found off Cornwall
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Divers have located the wreck of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Tampa, sunk in 1918 after a German torpedo off the Wales coast, marking the United States’ largest naval loss in World War I. Found by the Gasperados Dive Team at about 300 feet off Cornwall, the site holds 131 crew (111 Coast Guardsmen, 4 U.S. Navy sailors, 16 Britons; 11 of the deceased were Black). The Coast Guard confirmed the find and said it will mount further autonomous exploration to honor those who died.
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