Open AccessNavy Ship Mysteriously Lost in 1921 Found via Science, Sleuthing
Author(s) -
Randy Showstack
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
eos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/2016eo049045
Subject(s) - navy , aeronautics , schematic , engineering , forensic engineering , law , political science , electrical engineering
Scientists painstakingly compared a shipwreck spotted in 2009 to a 1904 schematic of a long-lost tugboat. A naval gun on the wreck proved to be the "smoking gun" identifying the vanished ship.