Earth Is Blue: Three Miles from Safety: The Story of the USS Conestoga
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
- When you think of the might and power of the U.S. Navy, the first thing that comes to mind is not likely to be a tugboat. More likely, you picture a formidable aircraft carrier or a well-armed battleship, operated by hundreds and often thousands of sailors. A tug is an afterthought, if it's a thought at all. So why is the USS Conestoga -- a Navy fleet tug -- so important?
The USS Conestoga vanished after leaving the San Francisco Bay in March of 1921 and was never seen again. The ship was carrying 56 sailors, many of whom were making their way to the ship's final duty station in American Samoa. But Conestoga failed to appear in Pearl Harbor, its first stop. The Navy launched an exhaustive effort that included every available vessel and aircraft in the vicinity. Not until Amelia Earhart disappeared would a larger and more expansive search take place.
NOAA's Office of National Marine Sanctuaries serves as a trustee for a network of underwater parks, including 13 national marine sanctuaries and Papahānaumokuākea and Rose Atoll marine national monuments. On a recent expedition to Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary, off the coast of San Francisco, to help characterize sonar targets and connect them to known shipwrecks within the sanctuary, an unexpected blip appeared on the sonar some 27 miles from the Golden Gate Bridge and 2000 miles from Pearl Harbor, Oahu.
As the team of scientists watched and waited for a remotely operated vehicle to descend to the site of the unknown wreck, they had little sense that they would be cracking open one of the coldest case files in the history of the U.S. Navy. For almost a century this missing tug baffled historians, left holes in the hearts of families, and inspired the public to wonder: What ever happened to the USS Conestoga?
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These men, who go to sea never to return are truly, unsung heroes. Auxiliary vessels - tugs, oilers, colliers, etc - were and remain the real workhorses of the Navy. For those who served and who serve today, there is no glory, but a lot of hard and dirty work. These sailors possess a truly amazing character of superb work ethic and a desire to serve at sea. The soul of any vessel is its crew. MUCH RESPECT for the crew of the USS Conestoga - May they be blessed with fair winds and following seas as their eternal deployment continues. Now, let us hope that one day the USS Cyclops will be found and the descendants of her lost can receive closure as well.
This is by far the most important piece to shared with humanity. We has a world need to know that people sacrificed there lives for us and families still waited for their return. No return but the knowledge of there are now. We place to much on “me” we forget or have not learned there was “us”. This video so us that we need to look to the past and study, look in our present and say what is wrong. To the future ask can we make sure that we can secure the future for all of us. This produces so many feelings as to where we are going. Will anyone care will the world still be here ?
Thank NOAH for finding & sharing this TugBoat find we need to work to save us
Very well done. Thanks NOAA.
USS Conestoga Crew RIP o7 The Conestoga was a beauty of a tug :)
This is what discovering shipwrecks is all about!!!
The U.S. Navy's "Edmund Fitzgerald"-like 1921 mystery? (Brought here by Travel Channel's "Mysteries at the Museum.")
The Farallons would be the last place I would want to go into the sea. Cold water and a large Great White Shark population.
To fend off great whites, you need blood from a great white, all sharks within 7 miles will leave the area.
When you narrate a Documentary at least learn how to pronounce words correct.
Boatswain is pronounced Bosuhn.
Specially coming from the NOAA