{"id":13582,"date":"2016-03-24T08:01:14","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T13:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=13582"},"modified":"2016-03-24T08:01:14","modified_gmt":"2016-03-24T13:01:14","slug":"military-news-after-95-years-the-uss-conestoga-has-been-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2016\/03\/24\/military-news-after-95-years-the-uss-conestoga-has-been-found\/","title":{"rendered":"Military News: After 95 Years, the USS Conestoga Has Been Found"},"content":{"rendered":"

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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.<\/p>\n

It cleared the Golden Gate at 3:25\u00a0p.m. and steamed into the Gulf of the Farallones in heavy seas. The Conestoga was a rugged oceangoing tug that had once hauled coal barges for a Pennsylvania railroad.<\/p>\n

But 17 years after its launch in Baltimore, it had undergone hard use and had a reputation as a \u201cwet boat,\u201d one that took on water easily.<\/p>\n

At 4\u00a0p.m. that day, as the San Francisco light ship recorded big waves and gale-force winds, the Conestoga passed Point Bonita and was not heard from again.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, 95 years later, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Navy announced that the wreck had been found a few miles from Southeast Farallon Island, just off the California coast.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Read the Remainder at the Washington Post<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n

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