Rick the Librarian
08-08-2013, 07:11
In July, 1918, the armored cruiser San Diego (exCalifornia after her name was given to the new battleship that would be sunk at Pearl Harbor), was holed and sunk by a mine, laid by a German submarine, the only American warship larger than a destroyer to be sunk during World War I.
The ship was sunk a few miles off Fire Island, in New York. It is currently in about 110 feet of water, an easy "target" for sports divers, who can enter the hull of the upside down wreck. Among the items found were a number of M1903 rifles seen in the picture below. The author of the book I read which discussed diving on the San Diego said that several had been unearthed but that they had to be carefully excavated as they would break in half.
An interesting bit of history.
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The ship was sunk a few miles off Fire Island, in New York. It is currently in about 110 feet of water, an easy "target" for sports divers, who can enter the hull of the upside down wreck. Among the items found were a number of M1903 rifles seen in the picture below. The author of the book I read which discussed diving on the San Diego said that several had been unearthed but that they had to be carefully excavated as they would break in half.
An interesting bit of history.
http://www.fototime.com/59D4B682E47B55F/standard.jpg