The largest loss of life was 131 sailors from this Coast Guard Cutter, recently found off the coast of Cornwall.
(CNN) — The German submarine captain saw his target’s silhouette against the evening sky off the coast of southern England and gave the command to fire a single torpedo.
It was the last anyone would see of the US Coast Guard Cutter Tampa and its 131 crew members for more than 107 years.
Three minutes after that German torpedo struck the vessel amidships, the Tampa was on the bottom of the Atlantic with all crew lost, the largest naval loss for US forces during World War I.
On Wednesday, the Coast Guard announced a team of British divers had located the wreck of the Tampa last weekend at a depth of 300 feet (91 meters) some 50 miles (80 kilometers) off the Cornwall coast.
The wreckage was found by the British Gasperados Dive Team, a volunteer technical-diving team that worked with historians and researchers to find wrecks around the UK, according to its Facebook page.
The team had been looking for the Tampa since 2023.
www.tampabay28.com
(CNN) — The German submarine captain saw his target’s silhouette against the evening sky off the coast of southern England and gave the command to fire a single torpedo.
It was the last anyone would see of the US Coast Guard Cutter Tampa and its 131 crew members for more than 107 years.
Three minutes after that German torpedo struck the vessel amidships, the Tampa was on the bottom of the Atlantic with all crew lost, the largest naval loss for US forces during World War I.
On Wednesday, the Coast Guard announced a team of British divers had located the wreck of the Tampa last weekend at a depth of 300 feet (91 meters) some 50 miles (80 kilometers) off the Cornwall coast.
The wreckage was found by the British Gasperados Dive Team, a volunteer technical-diving team that worked with historians and researchers to find wrecks around the UK, according to its Facebook page.
The team had been looking for the Tampa since 2023.
Divers find wreck of US’s largest naval loss of World War I
The German submarine captain saw his target’s silhouette against the evening sky off the coast of southern England and gave the command to fire a single torpedo.
www.tampabay28.com
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