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First Images of Historic San Francisco Shipwreck, SS City of Rio de Janeiro

By Sarah Marquis/Vernon Smith | NOAA on Dec 14, 2014 At Sea, Featured

NOAA and its partners today released three-dimensional sonar maps and images of an immigrant steamship lost more than 100 years ago in what many consider the worst maritime disaster in San Francisco history. On Feb. 22, 1901, in a dense morning fog, the SS City of Rio de Janeiro struck jagged rocks near the present […]

NOAA Team Reveals Forgotten Ghost Ships off Golden Gate

By NOAA on Sep 16, 2014 At Sea, Featured

A team of NOAA researchers today confirmed the discovery just outside San Francisco’s Golden Gate strait of the 1910 shipwreck SS Selja and an unidentified early steam tugboat wreck tagged the “mystery wreck.” The researchers also located the 1863 wreck of the clipper ship Noonday, currently obscured by mud and silt on the ocean floor. […]