
The USS Conestoga departed San Francisco Bay for Pearl Harbor in March 1921 and vanished , the boat never made it to Hawaii, and the 56-man crew was declared lost.however it recently has been found by a team of government researchers off the San Francisco coast. The discovery process began in 2009 when a coastal survey documented a possible shipwreck near the islands. In October 2015, a joint NOAA and Navy mission confirmed the Conestoga’s identity.