Rediscovering USS San Diego: 100 Years from the U-boat Attack
Author(s): Alexis Catsambis; Art Trembanis
Year: 2018
Summary
In the fall of 2017, the Naval History and Heritage Command, the University Delaware, Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock and partners conducted a cursory site assessment of the wreck of USS San Diego. Armored cruiser San Diego, launched in 1899, was the only major warship lost by the U.S. Navy during the Great War. Sunk by German U-boat in July 1918, the war grave came to rest just a few miles south of Long Island, where her story has continued to fascinate the public since that time. With the upcoming centennial commemoration of her loss, the recent project aimed to use remote sensing tools to acoustically and visually document the site, and in doing so definitively answer the persistent questions about the cause of her loss.
Cite this Record
Rediscovering USS San Diego: 100 Years from the U-boat Attack. Alexis Catsambis, Art Trembanis. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, New Orleans, Louisiana. 2018 ( tDAR id: 441248)
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Keywords
General
Armored Cruiser
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Survey
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WWI
Geographic Keywords
North America
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United States of America
Temporal Keywords
World War I
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 571