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The Nomad Exploration Team has located the wreck of the SS Cornwallis, a 5,458-ton Canadian steamship sunk by a German U-boat on December 3, 1944, off the coast of Maine. The vessel was found lying at nearly 400 feet below the ocean's surface, more than 80 years after it sank in less than 10 minutes while carrying sugar and molasses to St. John, New Brunswick. Only five of the 48 people on board survived the attack by U-1230, which had previously landed two Nazi spies, Erich Gimpel and William Colepaugh, on the Maine coast.
The discovery, confirmed through side scan sonar and dives, marks the end of a years-long search by the New Hampshire-based team. The SS Cornwallis, originally built in 1921 and previously damaged by a torpedo in 1942, had been a mystery until now. The Nomad Exploration Team described the wreck as an underwater time capsule from a unique chapter of World War II history along the Maine coast.
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