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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Greg Martin & Laura Sharman

Huge WWI shipwreck buried on UK beach is revealed after super tides and storms

A German First World War shipwreck has been uncovered on a Cornwall beach more than a hundred years after it was stranded on a reef.

The SV Carl was impounded at Cardiff docks, Wales, during WWI, with rumours that the vessel was a suspected enemy minelayer.

Three years later, the Royal Navy were towing it to London to be used as scrap when it broke free during a storm.

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