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Wreck of SS Cornwallis found off Maine coast

Summarised by Spiced Kopi · 29 October 2026, 10:39 UTC ·9 sec listen

The 400-foot steamship SS Cornwallis, sunk off Maine in 1944 by a German submarine linked to a Nazi spy landing, has been found. The U-boat had put two spies ashore on the Maine coast four days earlier.

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