Historic 'Ghost Ships' Discovered Near Golden Gate Bridge

LiveScience ^ | September 17, 2014 | Megan Gannon

[EveningStar]

The waters just west of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge hide a graveyard of sunken ships. By some estimates, there are 300 wrecks in the Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary and the Golden Gate National Recreation Area alone. But only a fraction of them have been seen by scientists.

Marine archaeologists and researchers with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have set out to document those lost vessels. Over the course of a five-day survey that just ended yesterday (Sept. 15), the team discovered the sites of at least four wrecks: the 1910 SS Selja shipwreck, the 1863 wreck of the clipper ship Noonday and two unidentified wrecks.

[Riley]

I have a copy of this, I re-read it from time to time.

http://www.amazon.com/California-Shipwrecks-Don-B-Marshall/dp/0875642233

[the OlLine Rebel]

That’s just about as Titanic deep.

[KC_Conspirator]

Cool, will look into it.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks EveningStar. I probably shouldn't make the 73 men sailed her joke without checking.

[widdle_wabbit]

I downloaded the mov tugboat file, 15 minutes for video shots of stern and hull.

More here concerning the lost ships.

http://www.sfgate.com/science/article/The-search-begins-for-long-ago-shipwrecks-outside-5760083.php#page-2

Keith Miller and crew of ocean going tugboat were lost at sea in this area many years ago. Keith was a friend of mine.

The seas can be unforgiving, as was the case here.