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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Wreckage of a US Coast Guard ship lost during WWI has been found off the coast of England

Coast Guard Wreck - (Copyright 2019 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

The wreckage of a U.S. Coast Guard ship lost in a deadly attack more than a century ago, during World War I, was been discovered off the coast of England.

The Coast Guard announced Wednesday that the USCGC Tampa was found about 50 miles (80 kilometers) off Newquay, Cornwall, United Kingdom, at a depth exceeding 300 feet (90 meters) deep in the Atlantic Ocean. The cutter's wreckage was located and confirmed by the British technical-diving team Gasperados.

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