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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums95 years after disappearance, USS Conestoga is found
CNN)It was peacetime when the USS Conestoga departed from California's Golden Gate strait on March 25, 1921, but in one of the biggest maritime mysteries the vessel disappeared without a trace.
The Navy seagoing tugboat and its 56 officers and crew went missing so long ago that the famous bridge that spans the Golden Gate did not yet exist.
On Wednesday -- nearly 95 years after the Navy declared the Conestoga and its crew lost -- the shipwreck's discovery was officially announced by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Navy.
More with video.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/23/us/uss-conestoga-shipwreck-found-95-years-later/index.html?sr=twCNN032616uss-conestoga-shipwreck-found-95-years-later0731PMStoryPhoto&linkId=22731968
All immediate relative are now probably gone and never knew what happened to their sons, fathers or husbands. R.I.P.
unapatriciated
(5,390 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,212 posts)the Navy launched a massive search, finding only a lifeboat with the letter "C'' on its bow off Manzanillo, Mexico.
underpants
(182,271 posts)annabanana
(52,791 posts)They would be pushing the Century mark, and would have been too young at the time to remember their relative personally.. But I'll bet there are a few with that missing ship in their family story.
csziggy
(34,120 posts)There was quite a bit of research on the men and their families. I'm only a few pages in and so far most of them were too young to be married - the sweetheart of one is listed as having asked about the search. Some of the men were born about 1905 so they would have been sixteen when the ship went down.
tabasco
(22,974 posts)No wireless I suppose.
Kaleva
(36,145 posts)Omaha Steve
(99,060 posts)K&R!
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