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Divers find missing wreck of the biggest US Navy loss of World War I

The Independent·Owen Scott·about 1 month ago
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The wreckage of the biggest U.S. Naval loss of World War I has been discovered by a team of British divers after 107 years. The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Tampa was discovered around 50 miles off the coast of Newquay , a seaside town in south west England, after being lost in 1918. ​ All 131 people aboard the vessel were killed as it sank, with the tragedy representing the largest single American naval combat loss of life in WW1 . ​“When the Tampa was lost with all hands in 1918, it left an enduring grief in our service,” Admiral Kevin Lunday, commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard, said in a press release . “Locating the wreck connects us to their sacrifice and reminds us that devotion to duty endures.”​ A team of British divers have located the wreckage of the biggest US naval loss from World War One (US Coast Guard/Gasperados) The discovery of the Tampa is the culmination of three years of collaboration between the Coast Guard Historian’s Office and a group of British divers named the Gasperados Dive Team.…

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