"USS Conestoga Wreck Discovered" Topic
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 Editor in Chief Bill   | 24 Mar 2016 10:33 a.m. PST |
The USS Conestoga left the Navy yard at Mare Island, Calif., on Good Friday, 1921, bound for Pearl Harbor, with a complement of 56 sailors… link |
| Tom Bryant | 24 Mar 2016 11:09 a.m. PST |
Godspeed and Fair Winds to the crew. We know where they rest and we honor them. |
Ed Mohrmann  | 24 Mar 2016 2:06 p.m. PST |
It is sort of interesting that debris from the vessel
washed up in California, yet the Navy seemed convinced
that she went down in Hawaii. Of course the narrative doesn't indicate the time elapsed
between the loss and the appearance of the debris on the
the shore. |
| rmaker | 25 Mar 2016 11:40 a.m. PST |
yet the Navy seemed convinced that she went down in Hawaii. Note that there was a reported sighting of Conestoga in Hawaiian waters. Evidently mistaken, but when that's all they had to go on … |
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