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The lost shipwreck of a passenger steamer clam that proceed down near the Golden Gate in San Francisco has been rediscover .
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ( NOAA ) , announced the discovery of the remains of the SS City of Chester today ( April 23 ) . NOAA ’s Coast Survey Navigational Response Team 6 discover the wreck last class during a sonar survey of the San Francisco Bay .
City of Chester, a passenger steamer that sank near San Francisco in 1888.
The City of Chester was built in 1875 and sank in 1888 . deport 90 passengers , the ship was steam by from San Francisco toward Eureka , Calif. , on Aug. 22 of that year . The fog that Clarence Shepard Day Jr. was dense .
Only a few minute into the ocean trip , around 10 a.m. , the City of Chester was traveling through the Golden Gate , the entry to San Francisco Bay that is now spanned by theGolden Gate Bridge . The ship was take by the Oceanic , another ship arriving at the harbour from Asia . [ Shipwrecks Gallery : mystery of the Deep ]
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A 2013 sonar survey of the City of Chester wreck shows the ship sitting upright on the ocean floor.
The City of Chester last only six minutes beforethe ship drop down , fit in to NOAA . Sixteen people die in the crash , and the public initially grow a racially charged vociferation against the Asiatic immigrant on the Oceanic . Stories of those passengers ' heroism in saving victims on the City of Chester soon dampen those cries , however .
The wreck ’s locating in the aftermath of the sinking feeling was no mystery , tell James Delgado , the director of marine heritage for NOAA ’s Office of National Marine Sanctuaries . In 1888 , the now - defunct U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey drag out a wire behind a tugboat and snag the Kingston-upon Hull of what they believed to be the City of Chester . Salvage diver Capt . Robert Whitelaw also claimed to have sent a diver to theshipwreckin 1890 . Whitelaw cover that the ship was cut closely in two by the Oceanic ’s blow .
The loon " order there were bodies in the shipwreck , and it spooked him and he did n’t want to go back , " Delgado tell Live Science .
A modern view of the Golden Gate and the City of Chester’s approximate location.
But over the year , the crash was mostly forgotten , except as a footnote as the secondly - deadliest maritime tragedy at the Golden Gate . In May 2013 , NOAA ’s Coast Survey team was lead a sonar survey in planning for the America ’s Cup yacht race , Delgado said . He asked the team to embark into the area where the City of Chester might have gone down .
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The team was able to find the ship , " zoom in " with echo sounder and appraise it . The survey reveal 202 - base - long ( 62 meters ) City of Chester sit upright at the boundary of a school in 216 feet ( 66 m ) of water system , " shrouded in mud , " Delgado said .
The Kingston-upon Hull get up 18 ft ( 5.5 m ) from the ocean floor , and high - resolution echo sounder even located the cut from the collision on the port side of the ship , NOAA report .
The breakthrough highlights the use of scientific discipline and engineering in ocean exploration , Delgado said , tally that he hopes the mission revolutionise young multitude to study science .
" Not only are we boldly going and find new life story [ in the oceans ] , " he said , " we ’re finding evidence of preceding civilisation . "
There are no plans to farm the wreck , and the hard currents and murkey water at the Golden Gate make diving to the wreck a dangerous proffer , Delgado enounce . NOAA intends to create an showing about the ship at the office of the Gulf of Farallones National Marine Sanctuary at Crissy Field in San Francisco and will also work with Google Oceans to put data about the shipwreck online , Delgado said .
