{"id":276330,"date":"2026-05-19T09:31:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T09:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/276330\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T09:31:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T09:31:11","slug":"shipwreck-off-cornwall-believed-to-be-torpedoed-us-warship-tampa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/276330\/","title":{"rendered":"Shipwreck off Cornwall believed to be torpedoed US warship Tampa"},"content":{"rendered":"

Using a 200-page specification document from the US Coast Guard Historian’s Office, the team was able to tick off certain things spotted on the wreck.<\/p>\n

“[The] Weight of evidence says that has to be Tampa,” Steven Mortimer said.<\/p>\n

However, one feature missing was a nameplate on its stern.<\/p>\n

“We think that, as she sank, depth charges went off and just blew the back off the ship,” said Mortimer.<\/p>\n

“We want to just ensure this is the one,” said Dr William Theisen.<\/p>\n

“We may be able to bring some automated technology to bear on the wreck site now that they found it.<\/p>\n

“We’re more than likely going to send down some more assets to ‘mow the lawn’… A ROV (remotely operated vehicle) would go back and forth, they could stay down for 24 hours.”<\/p>\n

Mortimer said he had already received “lovely messages” from descendants of Tampa’s lost sailors.<\/p>\n

“They’re really very moving actually. They’re really pleased that she’s finally been found,” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Using a 200-page specification document from the US Coast Guard Historian’s Office, the team was able to tick…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-276330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}