The US Coastguard Cutter TAMPA was torpedoed by a German U-boat in 1918 off the Cornish coast, and all 131 lives onboard were ...
Divers searching off the Cornish coast have discovered the wreck of a long-lost U.S. Coast Guard vessel from World War I, 108 ...
The USCGC Tampa was lost with all hands off the coast of England when a German U-boat torpedoed it in September 1918.
In World War I, writes Chicoan and naval historian David Bruhn, “German U-boats sank over 5,200 vessels and came dangerously close to choking off Britain’s critical supply of food in the spring of ...