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fromSmithsonian Magazine
9 hours agoDivers Discover the Shipwreck of a World War I-Era Coast Guard Cutter, Which Vanished With 131 Sailors on Board in 1918
The wreckage of the USS Tampa, a U.S. Coast Guard cutter torpedoed by a German submarine in 1918, was discovered 50 miles off Cornwall, England, representing the largest single American naval combat loss of life during World War I.