Divers Find Wreck of Iconic U.S. Ship Torpedoed in WWI, Killing 131 on Board: "Their Final Resting Place Is Known at Last"

April 30, 2026

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The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Tampa, sunk in World War I, has been discovered off the coast of Britain by the Gasperados Dive Team.
The Tampa was torpedoed by a German submarine on September 26, 1918, resulting in the deaths of 131 people aboard, the largest single American combat loss of life in WWI.
The wreck was found approximately 50 miles off Cornwall, more than 300 feet deep in the Atlantic Ocean, after a three-year search by the dive team.
The ship had been on convoy duty and was the only one of six U.S. Coast Guard cutters sent overseas that never returned.
The Coast Guard plans further underwater research and exploration of the wreck site.
Other WWI shipwrecks have also been discovered in recent years off the coasts of Morocco, Scotland, and Chile.

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