Page | Description of Page |
History Page | The History of the Dollar Steamship Line, the American Steamship Lines, the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co |
The Ship | Details of the ship (size, engines, layout etc) |
The History of the Ship | Details of the history of the ship till its fatal journey |
Crossing the Pacific | Details of the last crossing of the Pacific from San Francisco to Noumea |
The Sinking | Details of the trip from Noumea to Vanuatu and the sinking |
Some Photographs of the Sinking | Includes some rarer phtographs |
Minute by Minute Account of Sinking | Log Book written by Lt Craig Hosmer - specifically 26 October 1942 |
First Hand Memories of Sinking | Memories of the sinking by people who were there |
Coolidge Heroes | Details of awards given to some people involved in rescues and attempted rescues during sinking |
The Salvage Work | Details of the various salvage attempts carried out from 1942 to the mid-1970s |
Investigation into the Sinking | The investigation of the sinking and the three inquiries (courts or commissions) held after the sinking. This page leads to other related pages |
Diagram of the Wreck | An Interactive diagram of the ship as it is now |
Dives on the Wreck | Descriptions of many dives on the Coolidge |
The Fall of The Lady | The Lady has now fallen from the wall of the Smoking Lounge and is in the process of being salvaged. |
My Best Ever Dives | A description of three dives I did to the stern of the Coolidge |
References | All the books and other information that I have consulted in preparing these pages on the the Coolidge |
General Santo Information | All about the accommodation, restaurants, dive operators etc on Espiritu Santo. |