Browse Facebook Marketplace and you’ll encounter an assortment of odd finds: vintage lamps, used socks, a car engulfed in flames. Dom Robinson found a 3,300-ton, 330ft long cargo ship that sank off the Cornish coast during World War I. Robinson purchased the wreck of the SS Almond Branch from someone who bought the wreckage from the British government in the 1970s. The SS Almond Branch. Screenshot: Dom Robinson/YouTubeThe SS Almond Branch was a British defense-armed merchant ship built in 1896 that a German submarine torpedo took down on November 27, 1917.