US naval ship sunk during World War I found off UK coast

• The wreckage of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Tampa, lost for 107 years, has been discovered by a team of British divers approximately 50 miles off the coast of Newquay, England.
• The vessel's sinking in 1918 resulted in the loss of all 131 people on board, marking it as the largest single American naval combat loss of life during World War I.
• The discovery is the culmination of a three-year collaborative effort between the U.S. Coast Guard Historian’s Office and the British Gasperados Dive Team.
• The Tampa was struck by a torpedo from a German UB-41 submarine in the Bristol Channel, leading to a secondary explosion and its rapid sinking within just three minutes.
• Among the casualties were 11 Black crewmembers, who were the first minority Coast Guardsmen to be killed in combat.

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Divers find missing wreck of the biggest US Navy loss of World War One more than a century later