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Fla Dem

(23,345 posts)
Sat Mar 26, 2016, 05:08 PM Mar 2016

95 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.

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95 years after disappearance, USS Conestoga is found (Original Post) Fla Dem Mar 2016 OP
thanks unapatriciated Mar 2016 #1
. haikugal Mar 2016 #2
I read in another story, when the Conestoga failed to arrive in Hawaii... Brother Buzz Mar 2016 #3
Wow I had no idea. underpants Mar 2016 #4
There may still be some relatives alive.. annabanana Mar 2016 #5
There is a document with biographies of many of the sailors csziggy Mar 2016 #7
Just 20 miles off of San Francisco tabasco Mar 2016 #6
And the ship wasn't reported missing until a month after it was last seen Kaleva Mar 2016 #9
Marta was telling me about this yesterday Omaha Steve Mar 2016 #8

Brother Buzz

(36,212 posts)
3. I read in another story, when the Conestoga failed to arrive in Hawaii...
Sat Mar 26, 2016, 05:17 PM
Mar 2016

the Navy launched a massive search, finding only a lifeboat with the letter "C'' on its bow off Manzanillo, Mexico.

annabanana

(52,791 posts)
5. There may still be some relatives alive..
Sat Mar 26, 2016, 06:03 PM
Mar 2016

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)
7. There is a document with biographies of many of the sailors
Sat Mar 26, 2016, 06:25 PM
Mar 2016
http://www.history.navy.mil/content/dam/nhhc/browse-by-topic/disasters-and-phenomena/NOAA_Conestoga_Biographies.pdf

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.

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