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Divers find last US warship sunk by German sub in World War II

By Tim Pearce
Published July 18, 2019 10:09pm ET
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Divers find last US warship sunk by German sub in World War II
This undated photo of an Eagle Boat provided by the U.S. Navy, is a class built in World War I, similar to a vessel which exploded off Cape Elizabeth, Maine, on April 23, 1945. | (AP Photo/U.S. Navy)

A private dive team has located the last U.S. Navy warship sunk by a German submarine in World War II.

Divers found the USS Eagle PE-56, a patrol boat, a few miles off the coast of Maine, according to the Associated Press. For decades, the ship was thought to have sunk because of a boiler explosion, but Navy researchers determined in 2001 that the ship succumbed to an attack by a German sub.

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