Submarine exploring sunken ship near Port Townsend (& tanker hit by Japan off California coast)

AP ^ | 6/22/11

[Libloather]

Submarine exploring sunken ship near Port Townsend
Jun 22, 12:08 PM EDT

PORT TOWNSEND, Wash. (AP) -- A private submarine is diving this week near Port Townsend to examine the wreck of a steamer that sank in 1921 in Puget Sound.

The 90-year-old wreck of the SS Governor rests in 240 feet of water.

**SNIP**

The expedition will test equipment OceanGate will use to examine an oil tanker, the Montebello, that was sunk by the Japanese during World War II off the coast of California near Morro Bay. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration wants OceanGate to help determine if 70,000 barrels of oil can be removed from the tanker.

[Libloather]

sunk by the Japanese during World War II off the coast of California

That was close.

[JimRed]

There are lots of WWII wrecks off the east coast; the German subs had a lot shorter travel distance to get here.

[skeeter]

Japan sent their subs to the west coast as a extension of the Pearl Harbor operation. They were present there for awhile in 42, not so much after that.

My 6th grade teacher spent 10 days in a liferaft between HI and SF, his freighter having been torpedoed on 12/10/41. Fascinating guy.

[Rebelbase]

My uncle was a teenager summer camp counselor on Cape Cod during early part of the war and told us stories of watching torpedoed ships burning from the beach and finding debris washed ashore the next morning.

[proudpapa]

If the ship sank off the coast of California, then how did it end up in Casey Jones locker near Port Townsend, Washington?

[Red_Devil 232]

Movie - 1941

[Baynative]

WA Ping

[ThomasThomas]

This is just a test. This is just a test. The ship near Port Townsend is not the tanker sunk off the coast of California. The expedition will test equipment OceanGate will use to examine an oil tanker, the Montebello, that was sunk by the Japanese during World War II off the coast of California near Morro Bay.

[Libloather]

Casey Jones locker

Davy Jones' Locker is an idiom for the bottom of the sea: the state of death among drowned sailors.

John Luther ("Casey") Jones was an American railroad engineer from Jackson, Tennessee

[proudpapa]

Thanks...

Note to self: No posting before consuming a cup of coffee.

[blueunicorn6]

The NOAA wants that oil to help drive the oil market down.

[proudpapa]

Thanks ...see #10.

[tophat9000]

If the ship sank off the coast of California, then how did it end up in Casey Jones locker near Port Townsend, Washington?

The Port Townsend ship SS Governor sank in 1921 (an not sunk by Japan)...that a test for thet sub...if the sub test out ok then the go off the coast of California near Morro Bay to examine an oil tanker, the Montebello, that was sunk by the Japanese during World War II