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Five Massachusetts men became the first divers to reach the wreck of a 19th-century steamship that sank in one of the most destructive storms in New England history, and say they saw an array of artefacts but no human remains.
The Portland, known as the "Titanic of New England", sank off the Massachusetts coast on November 26, 1898, taking more than 190 people with it.
