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- British volunteer dive team identified the long-lost USCGC Tampa after three years of research.
- The U.S. Coast Guard confirmed the wreck lies about 50 miles off Newquay, Cornwall.
- Admiral Kevin Lunday said locating the ship connects the service to the crew’s World I sacrifice, verified by historian William Thiesen’s archival images.
- The cutter was torpedoed in the Bristol Channel in 1918, sank in under three minutes, and killed all 131 aboard.
