US Coast Guard Ship Wreckage from WWI Discovered Off England's Coast
The wreckage of the USCGC Tampa, a U.S. Coast Guard ship lost during World War I, has been discovered off the coast of England. The ship was found approximately 50 miles off Newquay, Cornwall, at a depth of over 300 feet in the Atlantic Ocean. The discovery was made by the British technical-diving team Gasperados, who confirmed the wreckage. The Tampa was torpedoed by a German submarine in the Bristol Channel in 1918, sinking in less than three minutes and resulting in the death of all 131 people aboard, including 111 Coast Guardsmen, four U.S. Navy personnel, and 16 British Navy personnel and civilians. This event marked the largest single American naval combat loss of life in World War I. The Gasperados Dive Team conducted extensive research and exploration over three years to locate the wreckage, with assistance from the Coast Guard Historian’s Office. 
