April 2020
The Mystery of the Marie: POSTPONED
Nearly 60 years ago, on June 7, 1960, the Marie, a converted WWII Landing craft set out at sunrise from Santa Barbara Harbor with seven men working on a covert underwater Raytheon-related project…and was never seen again. Eventually, four victims’ bodies were recovered, but three disappeared along with the Marie’s life boat—the captain, a scientist, and an engineer (Diego “Jim” Terres, Jr). Only 2 years old when her father disappeared, Teresa Newton-Terres decided to investigate the story and try to…
May 2020
Dearest Minnie: A Sailor’s Story
Hoping to enforce treaties and protect overseas holdings, President Theodore Roosevelt and Congress set out to build American naval power. Beginning in the 1880s with just 90 small and mostly obsolete ships, the navy quickly grew to include new steel fighting vessels. The hulls of these battleships were painted a stark white, which earned them the nickname, the Great White Fleet. By order of President Theodore Roosevelt, 16 battleships and their various escort vessels sailed around the world between December…
SBMM 20th Anniversary Fundraiser
Honoring Surf Legends Shaun Tomson and Renny Yater
Join us in Celebrating Our 20th Anniversary
June 2020
The Loss of the USS Conestoga
The USS Conestoga, with 56 U.S. Navy sailors onboard, departed Mare Island in San Francisco Bay on March 25, 1921 for Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and was never seen again. The U.S. Navy launched the largest sea and air search in its history for the missing fleet tug, up until the search for Amelia Earhart’s lost plane in 1937. The Navy searched 400,000 square miles off the Hawaii Islands and out to Midway Atoll. Based on additional leads, they conducted a…