MIAMI — The wreckage of a U.S. Coast Guard ship lost in a deadly attack more than a century ago, during World War I, has been discovered off the coast of England.
The Coast Guard announced Wednesday that the USCGC Tampa was found about 50 miles (80 kilometers) off Newquay, Cornwall, United Kingdom, at a depth exceeding 300 feet (90 meters) deep in the Atlantic Ocean. The cutter’s wreckage was located and confirmed by the British technical-diving team Gasperados.
Adm. Kevin Lunday, commandant of the Coast Guard, said in a statement that the courage and sacrifice of the Tampa’s crew reflected the legacy of the Coast Guard, which has defended the U.S. during every armed conflict since its 1790 founding.
“When the Tampa was lost with all hands in 1918, it left an enduring grief in our service,” Lunday said. “Locating the wreck connects us to their sacrifice and reminds us that devotion to duty endures.”
The Tampa was lost after being torpedoed by a German submarine in the Bristol Channel, officials said. The vessel sank in less than three minutes, resulting in the death of all 131 people aboard. That included 111 Coast Guardsmen, four U.S. Navy personnel and 16 British Navy personnel and civilians. It was largest single American naval combat loss of life in World War I.
Gasperados Dive Team conducted 10 trips to possible dive locations.
“This discovery is the result of three years of research and exploration,” team leader Steve Mortimer said in a Facebook post. “TAMPA is of huge importance to the United States and the relatives of everyone who died that day. Their final resting place is known at last.”
The all-volunteer team first contacted the Coast Guard Historian’s Office in 2023 regarding the Tampa.
“We provided the dive team with historical records and technical data to assist in confirming the wreck site,” Coast Guard Atlantic Area Historian William Thiesen said in a statement. “This included the archival images of the deck fittings, ship’s wheel, bell, weaponry, and archival images of the Tampa.”
The Coast Guard is now developing plans for underwater research and exploration.
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For the past decade, the AL West has been run by a single team: the Houston Astros.
After stockpiling picks in the MLB draft and enduring 100-loss seasons to create a juggernaut, Houston ruled the division with an iron fist while winning two World Series championships and multiple pennants.
Alas, those days might be over in Houston, as they sit at the bottom of the standings heading into May.
Here’s the best and worst from April in the AL West.
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The Astros can hit well and have arguably the best bopper currently in baseball with Yordan Alvarez, but what does that matter if every six or seven runs you can put up, the other team can score 12 runs off your arms?
Houston was already going to have issues with its pitching in 2026, and it’s only gotten worse with ace Hunter Brown’s extended injury absence. To make matters worse, their big offseason signing, Tatsuya Imai, has been a complete mess since coming over from Japan, seemingly losing all confidence on the mound due to issues acclimating to a new culture and travel schedule.
The AL Central MVP: Yordan Alvarez (Houston Astros)
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The Mariners didn’t have a good first month of the season, but with the Astros lacking pitching, they should win the war of attrition and be the best team in the American League West.
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Analysts warn global famine fears are rising as food prices climb and fragile supply chains are strained during the Strait of Hormuz crisis, raising the risk of a prolonged, Suez-scale, eight-year disruption.
As the conflict entered Day 62, the U.S. maintained its naval blockade of traffic entering and exiting Iranian ports, while Iran continued to effectively close the Strait.
“Best case, there is an agreement between the U.S. and Iran within the next few weeks, and the Strait reopens,” Lars Jensen, CEO and partner at Vespucci Maritime, told Fox News Digital.
“And it has to be a deal where there is trust that Iran is sufficiently satisfied with the deal such that they do not suddenly close the strait again.
A cargo ship sails in the Persian Gulf toward the Strait of Hormuz April 22, 2026.(AP Photo)
“Even in that case, it will still take months for the supply chains to revert back to normality.”
President Donald Trump announced April 21 he would delay renewed strikes on Iran until it presents a proposal for long-term peace, effectively extending a 14-day ceasefire indefinitely.
Trump said Washington’s blockade of Iranian ports has been effective, urging Tehran to “just give up” as tensions escalate over the waterway.
“Worst case, we can look at the eight-year closure of the Suez Canal from 1967 to 1975,” Jensen said.
The SKS Doyles crude oil tanker moves along the Suez Canal towards Ismailia in Suez, Egypt, on Dec. 21, 2023, amid a sharp decline in tanker traffic through the Red Sea due to attacks disrupting global trade routes.(Stringer/Bloomberg)
The Suez Canal, shut from 1967 to 1975 after the Arab-Israeli conflict, has faced recurring disruption, including Red Sea attacks since 2023, driving up insurance costs, creating a “shadow blockade” and curbing traffic.
For Hormuz, Jensen says fertilizer, which is central to agricultural production, is the most critical factor, and any sustained disruption could quickly ripple through global food systems.
“Fertilizer is the most important element. Thirty percent of the world’s seaborne fertilizer comes from the Persian Gulf,” Jensen said. “Fertilizer prices are already rising fast,” he warned.
A ship is seen passing through the Strait of Hormuz during a two-week temporary ceasefire between the United States and Iran on April 8, 2026.(Shady Alassar/Anadolu/Getty Images)
“In wealthy countries, it means more expensive food come harvest season, and, in poor countries, it means that farmers right now cannot afford fertilizer,” Jensen added.
“This will lead to the harvest being lower later in the season, leading to rapid increases in food prices in very poor countries. And such a situation increases the risk of famine and conflict.”
Diplomatic efforts remained fragile between the U.S. and Iran as of Thursday, with limited signs of progress.
According to reports, a giant banner hangs on a building in Tehran’s central Enqelab Square declaring, “The Strait of Hormuz will remain closed; the entire Persian Gulf is our hunting ground.”
“Cargo vessels are not going through for the simple reason that commercial companies do not want to see their seafarers potentially killed,” Jensen added.
Emma Bussey is a breaking news writer for Fox News Digital. Before joining Fox, she worked at The Telegraph with the U.S. overnight team, across desks including foreign, politics, news, sport and culture.
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A suicide note purportedly written by the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is locked inside the case file of his former cellmate, convicted quadruple murderer Nicholas Tartaglione, who told The New York Times it was written on paper from a yellow legal pad and tucked inside a book.
According to the Times, Tartaglione found the note in July 2019, after Epstein unsuccessfully tried to kill himself — about two weeks before Epstein died by suicide in his lower Manhattan jail cell.
Epstein was found in his cell on July 23, 2019, “with a homemade noose fashioned around his neck,” according to a Bureau of Prisons incident report.
Epstein was “lying in the fetal position on the floor of his cell wearing a t-shirt and boxers. He was breathing heavily and was snoring. … His neck was red with no abrasions,” the report said. Epstein was “determined to have sustained a circular line of erythema at the base of the neck and friction marks on the front of neck.”
According to the report, At first Epstein alleged that his cellmate, Tartaglione, had tried to kill him, an allegation he did not repeat. He later said he could not recall what happened. Tartaglione has denied attempting to harm Epstein.
Tartaglione first mentioned the existence of the purported suicide note in a podcast last year.
“It said something like ‘FBI, you know, looked into me for months and found nothing.’ Then he wrote, ‘What do you want me to do? Cry about it?’ And he was weird because he wrote a smiley face, and then he wrote ‘time to say goodbye,'” Tartaglione said on the podcast.
This photo provided by the New York State Sex Offender Registry shows Jeffrey Epstein, March 28, 2017.
New York State Sex Offender Registry
The note is now part of a sealed file in Tartaglione’s criminal case. The New York Times on Thursday filed a petition with a federal judge to have the alleged note unsealed, arguing that Tartaglione has publicly discussed it and that a two-page chronology document about the alleged note was included in the Justice Department’s recent disclosures of Epstein files.
U.S. District Judge Kenneth Karas ordered the parties to the case to respond to the Times unsealing request by May 4.
Federal prosecutors from the Southern District of New York did not know of any suicide note written by Epstein, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News, but a two-page chart contained in the Justice Department’s Epstein files referenced it.
“Sometime between 7/23 and 7/27, NT found the note,” the chart said, referencing Nicholas Tartaglione by his initials.
The chart said Tartaglione’s lawyer, Bruce Barket, authenticated the note in January 2020 but did not say how.
Reached by ABC News on Thursday, Barket declined to comment because the matter is sealed.
“The entire Epstein affair, as it relates to Nick, is under seal, not just the supposed note, if there is one,” Barket said.
After the first possible suicide attempt, Epstein himself denied he was suicidal during a “suicide risk assessment” he underwent while in jail.
“Inmate Epstein denied any past or present suicidal ideation, intention or plan. He denied ever engaging in any suicide attempts or self-injurious behavior in the past,” the evaluation said. “He stated he lives to have fun, to enjoy life, and to learn. He said his future plans include fighting his case and going back to his normal life.”
Epstein was taken off suicide watch the following day, July 24, 2019, but was kept under psychological evaluation.
“Mr. Epstein stated, ‘I have no interest in killing myself,’ a staff psychologist at the Metropolitan Correctional Center wrote in a report. “He explained although his situation is ‘not perfect’ due to his being incarcerated, he noted he has ‘lots to do for [his] legal case.’ He described having a ‘wonderful life,’ to include interactions with ‘interesting people and projects.’ He said ‘it would be crazy’ to take his life. He furthered, ‘I would not do that to myself.'”
Epstein, a wealthy financier who owned two private islands in the Virgin Islands, came under investigation for allegedly luring minor girls to his seaside home in Palm Beach, Florida, for massages that turned sexual. He served 13 months of an 18-month sentence for sex crimes charges after reaching a controversial non-prosecution agreement in 2007 with the U.S. attorney’s office in Miami.
In 2019, Epstein was indicted on charges that he “sexually exploited and abused dozens of minor girls at his homes in Manhattan, New York, and Palm Beach, Florida, among other locations,” and used cash payments to recruit a “vast network of underage victims,” some of whom were as young as 14 years old.
Epstein died in jail while awaiting trial on August 10, 2019. His death was ruled a suicide by hanging by the New York Medical Examiner’s Office, and the Justice Department concurred with that finding.
Tartaglione was convicted in 2023 and sentenced in 2024 to four consecutive terms of life imprisonment. His appeal is currently pending before the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
