Large image of officers in crew can be found here...
Poor b*stards didn’t get very far.
Sobering loss. “Peacetime” deaths are always with us though against the seas.
Three miles offshore of the Farallons seems swimmable, but unfortunately it’s a breeding ground for great white sharks.
Interesting story that it was out in the ocean.
It says it was a tug boat, do tug boats usually go out that far?
I’m not a Navy guy, only time I spent on a boat was getting to the SE Asia theatre (and hated every damn bit of it), so am kind of curious what Navy Tugs were used for? The same as here to bring big ships into harbor?
Just curious, seems like there are quite a few Navy folks on FR.
WAPO keeps pulling i have watched my limit BS
No way am i subscribing so oh well...
Thanks for sharing...great story.
This reminds me of the U-Boat off of New Jersey that took a long time to learn the name. Germans thought it went down off of Gibraltar rather than NJ. Was the subject of a book called, “The Last Dive” where a father and son died. John Chatterton finally unlocked the secret and visited a sister in NJ of one of the lost sailors. She cried when she learned he was lost only a short distance from her home.
How did they find the shipwreck?
The article didn’t say......Did they find any survivors?
There are a surprising number of warships that have just vanished with all hands not to mention a tremendous amount of civilian vessels. Most in the sailing era of course.
The Continental Navy/ US Navy has quite a few, the Cyclops being the most famous.
WP is a rag.
Very interesting!
Navy ping.
Thanks for posting, great story.
Someone help me out, it looks like the gents wearing bow-ties are Chiefs. Is/was that a common uniform item and if so is to limited to Chiefs or can/did Officers wear them too?
RIP to the sailors.
