Photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Jaiden Hartley | U.S. Coast Guard Atlantic Area | 04.02.2025
Coast Guard Cutter Calhoun (WMSL 759) crew members lay wreathes at sea to honor the memory of Coast Guard Cutter Tampa while underway near its presumed sinking location in Bristol Channel, Britain, April 2, 2025. Just weeks before the official end of WWI, Tampa was torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat on Sept. 26, 1918, killing 111 Coast Guardsmen, four U.S. Navy sailors, and 15 British royal......
Photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Jaiden Hartley | U.S. Coast Guard Atlantic Area | 04.02.2025
Coast Guard Cutter Calhoun (WMSL 759) crew members hold a wreath-laying ceremony at sea to honor the memory of Coast Guard Cutter Tampa while underway near its presumed sinking location in Bristol Channel, Britain, April 2, 2025. Just weeks before the official end of WWI, Tampa was torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat on Sept. 26, 1918, killing 111 Coast Guardsmen, four U.S. Navy sailors, and......
Photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Jaiden Hartley | U.S. Coast Guard Atlantic Area | 04.02.2025
Coast Guard Cutter Calhoun (WMSL 759) crew members prepare to lay wreathes at sea to honor the memory of Coast Guard Cutter Tampa while underway near its presumed sinking location in Bristol Channel, Britain, April 2, 2025. Just weeks before the official end of WWI, Tampa was torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat on Sept. 26, 1918, killing 111 Coast Guardsmen, four U.S. Navy sailors, and 15......
Photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Jaiden Hartley | U.S. Coast Guard Atlantic Area | 04.02.2025
Coast Guard Cutter Calhoun (WMSL 759) crew members hold a wreath-laying ceremony at sea to honor the memory of Coast Guard Cutter Tampa while underway near its presumed sinking location in Bristol Channel, Britain, April 2, 2025. Just weeks before the official end of WWI, Tampa was torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat on Sept. 26, 1918, killing 111 Coast Guardsmen, four U.S. Navy sailors, and......
Photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Jaiden Hartley | U.S. Coast Guard Atlantic Area | 04.02.2025
Coast Guard Cutter Calhoun (WMSL 759) crew members prepare to lay wreathes at sea to honor the memory of Coast Guard Cutter Tampa while underway near its presumed sinking location in Bristol Channel, Britain, April 2, 2025. Just weeks before the official end of WWI, Tampa was torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat on Sept. 26, 1918, killing 111 Coast Guardsmen, four U.S. Navy sailors, and 15......
Photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Jaiden Hartley | U.S. Coast Guard Atlantic Area | 04.02.2025
Aboard Coast Guard Cutter Calhoun (WMSL 759), wreaths lay ready to be thrown overboard for a memorial ceremony to honor the loss of Coast Guard Cutter Tampa while at sea near the presumed sinking location in the Bristol Channel, Britain, April 2, 2025. Only a few weeks before WWI ended, Tampa was torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat on Sept. 26, 1918, killing 111 Coast Guardsmen, four U.S.......
Photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Jonathan Lally | U.S. Coast Guard Southeast | 09.26.2019
Legacy's Shadow: Rising Hearts from a Sunken Ship, is a story of a Purple Heart Medal being posthumously award to a Coast Guardsman killed in action on Sept. 26, 1918 during World War I aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Tampa that was torpedoed while conducting a convoy escort in Bristol Channel. More than 100 years later members of the Coast Guard still remember and hold a ceremony in honor of......
Photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Jonathan Lally | U.S. Coast Guard Southeast | 09.26.2019
John Kendall, grand-nephew of Coast Guard Cutter Tampa World War I quartermaster Alexander Saldarini, hold photos of his grand-uncle from World War I after a Purple Heart Medal presentation ceremony Sept. 26, 2019 held at Coast Guard Station Lake Worth Inlet. The medal was posthumously awarded to Saldarini by the Coast Guard more than 100 years after the cutter was sunk in Bristol Channel......
