Wreckage of U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Tampa Discovered Off Cornwall, United Kingdom

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Wreckage of U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Tampa Discovered Off Cornwall, United Kingdom
04/29/2026 11:03 AM EDT

The wreckage of the Coast Guard Cutter Tampa has been located and confirmed by the British technical-diving team Gasperados. The site lies approximately 50 miles off Newquay, Cornwall, United Kingdom, at a depth exceeding 300 feet deep in the Atlantic Ocean
A historical photo of Coast Guard Cutter Tampa, which was lost in 1918 during World War I after being torpedoed by a German submarine. Tampa’s wreckage was recently located off the coast of Cornwall, United Kingdom, marking the largest single naval American combat loss of life in World War I.