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On March 25th, 1921, the USS Conestoga steamed out of Mare Island with an ultimate destination of American Samoa. She was still off the coast of San Francisco when hit with bad weather and sank. All 56 crewmen were lost.
Her wreck was discovered in 2009 off the coast of San Francisco and in October of 2015 a joint NOAA and U.S. Navy mission confirmed it was the hull of the USS Conestoga. Aerial maps of sunken ship can be found here.
USS Conestoga Crew
| Photo || Name || Rank/Rate || Birth Date || Navy start Date || Born In || |- | || Wilfred M. Aasgard || Seaman 2nd class || Born || Navy Start Date || yesorno || |- | || Lee Joseph Alleman || Seaman 2nd class|| Born || Navy Start Date || yesorno || |- | ||Joseph Harold Allen || Seaman || Born || Navy Start Date || yesorno || |- ||| Charles Joseph Balint || Seaman 2nd class || Born || Navy Start Date || yesorno || |- | || Alias Steven Benard || Seaman || Born || Navy Start Date || yesorno || |- | ||Sylvester Craig Blalock || Machinist Mate 1st class || Born || Navy Start Date || yesorno || |- | ||Joseph Bodie || Seaman || Born || Navy Start Date || yesorno || |- | ||Marvin Henry Bower || Fireman 1st class || Born || Navy Start Date || yesorno || |- | ||Arthur Brignac || Seaman 2nd class || Born || Navy Start Date || yesorno || |- | ||Nelson Eugene Burkhart || Quartermaster 3rd class || Born || Navy Start Date || yesorno || |- | ||Henry Grady Butler || rank/rate || Born || Navy Start Date || yesorno || |- | ||Russell Rainer Crabtree || rank/rate || Born || Navy Start Date || yesorno || |- | ||Joe Earle Davis || rank/rate || Born || Navy Start Date || yesorno || |- | ||Charles Depiante || rank/rate || Born || Navy Start Date || yesorno || |- | ||William Jesse Dill || rank/rate || Born || Navy Start Date || yesorno || |- | ||William Joseph Donovan || rank/rate || Born || Navy Start Date || yesorno || |- | ||James Flynn || rank/rate || Born || Navy Start Date || yesorno || |- | ||William Rudolph France || rank/rate || Born || Navy Start Date || yesorno || |- | ||Edward Bernard Anthony Goodin || rank/rate || Born || Navy Start Date || yesorno || |- |
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||Roy Evart Hoffses || Boatswain, Ordinance Officer || 1888 || Navy Start Date || Rhode Island || |- | ||Hans Jensen || rank/rate || Born || Navy Start Date || yesorno || |- | ||William Walter Johnson || rank/rate || Born || Navy Start Date || yesorno || |- |
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|| Ernest Larkin Jones || LT, CO || 30 JAN 1880 || Navy Start Date || Kansas || |- |
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||George Franklin Kaler || Machinist's Mate Chief || 1 NOV 1888 || Navy Start Date ||Ohio || |- | ||Edwin Peter Kortis || rank/rate || Born || Navy Start Date || yesorno || |- | ||Joseph Matthew Krueger || rank/rate || Born || Navy Start Date || yesorno || |- | ||Eryle Bond Laverick || rank/rate || Born || Navy Start Date || yesorno || |- | ||Theodore Marius Liisberg || rank/rate || Born || Navy Start Date || yesorno || |- | ||Louis Arthur Liscomb || rank/rate || Born || Navy Start Date || yesorno || |- | ||William Thomas Manchester || rank/rate || Born || Navy Start Date || yesorno || |- | ||Louis Anthony Marchione || rank/rate || Born || Navy Start Date || yesorno || |- | ||Clarence Leroy McIlwain || rank/rate || Born || Navy Start Date || yesorno || |- | ||Martin Phillip McKeigh || rank/rate || Born || Navy Start Date || yesorno || |- | ||Perry Lee McNett || rank/rate || Born || Navy Start Date || yesorno || |- | ||Willie Oblige Murray || rank/rate || Born || Navy Start Date || yesorno || |- | ||Wallace Pearl || rank/rate || Born || Navy Start Date || yesorno || |- |
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|| Wendell Plummer || Seaman 2nd class || 21 Aug 1899|| Navy Start Date || Ohio || |- | ||John Wesley Powell || rank/rate || Born || Navy Start Date || yesorno || |- | ||Tony Powers || rank/rate || Born || Navy Start Date || yesorno || |- | ||Thomas Cleary Quinn || rank/rate || Born || Navy Start Date || yesorno || |- | ||John Leo Reilly || rank/rate || Born || Navy Start Date || yesorno || |- | ||Harvey Herbert Reinbold || rank/rate || Born || Navy Start Date || yesorno || |- | ||Bernhardt W. Schoenfeld || rank/rate || Born || Navy Start Date || yesorno || |- | ||Joseph Lawrence Shetzline || rank/rate || Born || Navy Start Date || yesorno || |- | ||Fred Shook || rank/rate || Born || Navy Start Date || yesorno || |- | ||Harry Benjamin Shue || rank/rate || Born || Navy Start Date || yesorno || |- | ||Wilbur Standley || rank/rate || Born || Navy Start Date || yesorno || |- | ||Bledsoe Sherman Toms || rank/rate || Born || Navy Start Date || yesorno || |- | ||Arber Bryan Towery || rank/rate || Born || Navy Start Date || yesorno || |- | ||William Raymond Wallace || rank/rate || Born || Navy Start Date || yesorno || |- | ||Charles Ingerson Westover || rank/rate || Born || Navy Start Date || yesorno || |- | ||Hugh William White || rank/rate || Born || Navy Start Date || yesorno || |- | ||Benson Charles Williams || rank/rate || Born || Navy Start Date || yesorno || |- |
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||Edward Wilson || Mess Attendant 1st Class ||1902 || Navy Start Date || Florida || |- | ||James Monroe Wooten, Jr || rank/rate || Born || Navy Start Date || yesorno || |- | ||Elias Melvin Zimmerman || rank/rate || Born || Navy Start Date || yesorno || |- |}
