Personal Watercraft Insurance, Discovery of Navy Shipwreck Solves 95-Year-Old Mystery
A Navy tugboat that disappeared after it sailed from San Francisco in 1921 has been found by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration researchers in shark-infested waters about 30 miles west of San Francisco, putting an end to a 95-year-old mystery.
Weather logs indicate that soon after leaving California, the tugboat hit high winds and rough seas. A garbled radio transmission relayed later by another ship stated that the tug was “battling a storm and that the barge she was towing had been torn adrift by heavy seas.”
The tugboat, the U.S.S. Conestoga, left California with 56 officers and crew members on board, bound for Tutuila, American Samoa, by way of Hawaii. When the ship failed to arrive, the Navy carried out an expansive air and sea search, but only a battered lifeboat with the letter “C” Researchers said they believed that the boat had sunk as the crew members tried to reach a protected cove on the Farallons.
