A crew of volunteer divers off the coast of Maine found the remains of the SS Cornwallis, a Canadian ship that was torpedoed by a Nazi submarine in December 1944, killing 43 crewmembers.

Reports from the Bangor Daily News confirm that after five trips and 50 square miles of side-scan sonar sweeping, the New Hampshire-based Nomad Exploration Team finally found the 5,500-ton ship about 400 feet below the Atlantic surface. Pretty wild, right?

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The Cornwallis finally met its end thanks to a Nazi torpedo fired off of a sub filled with spies, but that was only the coup de grace. It had already been torpedoed previously, back in 1942, when it was packed with missiles off the coast of Barbados.

It survived and was patched up, then went right back to hauling sugar and molasses. But then, two years later, just after dropping off to Nazi spies near Hancock, Maine, as part of “ Operation Magpie ”, German sub U-1230 spotted the Cornwallis and launched a single torpedo at it.

That’s all it took.…