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Science and shipwrecks: Preserving America’s maritime history

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USS Conestoga (AT 54), the last known broadside photograph taken likely during WWI when the tugboat was equipped with a 3-inch 50 caliber naval gun and two machine guns. The tugboat was later equipped with only a single 3-inch 50 caliber gun when it disappeared while en route from Mare Island to America Samoa, by way of Pearl Harbor in 1921.

Watch 'Adventures of a Maritime Archaeologist,' new 7-part video series

December 13, 2016

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Maritime archaeologists get to do a lot of cool things for their research, such as diving carefully around shipwrecks.

Family members of those lost to USS Conestoga wreck write of gratitude, sadness

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Diane Gollnitz, granddaughter of Ernest Larkin Jones, Commanding Officer of the USS Conestoga, recently learned of the discovery of the ship. For 95 years, the fate of her grandfather, the crew, and the ship have been an unsolved mystery.

The mystery of the missing USS Conestoga is solved

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The officers and crew of USS Conestoga, in San Diego, California in 1921. Lost for 95 years, the tug was discovered in the Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary off San Francisco.

NOAA team discovers two vessels from WWII convoy battle off North Carolina

October 21, 2014

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Bluefields sonar image.