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A German steamboat that was seized by the United States in 1917, and eventually ran aground off San Miguel Island, on the same day as the Honda Point Disaster. USS Delphy United States Navy: 8 September 1923 One of seven United States Navy ships that ran aground off Lompoc in an incident known as the Honda Point Disaster
San Miguel Island (Chumash: Tuqan) [1] is the westernmost of California's Channel Islands, located across the Santa Barbara Channel in the Pacific Ocean, within Santa Barbara County, California. [2] San Miguel is the sixth-largest of the eight Channel Islands at 9,325 acres (3,774 ha), including offshore islands and rocks.
USNS Mission San Miguel United States: 8 October 1957 A fleet oiler run aground on Maro Reef. USS S-28 United States Navy: 4 July 1944 An S-class submarine that sunk off Oahu. USS Saginaw United States Navy: 29 October 1870 A sloop-of-war that ran aground off Kure Atoll. San Pedro: 1996 Sunk by Atlantis Submarines Hawaii as an artificial reef.
Unless otherwise stated the source is the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. [4] The list is ordered north to south with some imprecision around the San Francisco Bay and Channel Islands locations.
SS Cuba was a passenger and cargo steamship that was wrecked in 1923 off the coast of California.Her remains are now a wreck diving site. She was launched in Germany in 1897 as Coblenz for Norddeutscher Lloyd (NDL), who owned and operated her until the United States seized her in 1917.
The Tuqan Man consists of human remains found on San Miguel Island off the coast of California in 2005. The skull and bones of a man buried between 9,800 and 10,200 years ago were exposed by beach erosion on this westernmost of the Channel Islands. The remains were encountered and preserved in 2005 by University of Oregon archaeologists. The ...
Channel Islands kelp forests off San Miguel Island and Santa Rosa Island. Kelp beds are difficult to spot in conventional color aerial photos but stand out clearly in this near-infrared image from Landsat data. [9] A research expedition in the sanctuary in 1989 which included trawl and sediment sampling.
Daisy Cave, also known as CA-SMI-261, is an archeological site located on San Miguel Island in California. San Miguel Island is the westernmost island in the Channel Islands. [1] The island sits between the Santa Barbara Channel and the Pacific Ocean and is often notably battered by winds all year round, but the Daisy Cave itself provides ...