Author Stuart McDowell will return to the Central Coast to talk about how an I-15 type Japanese submarine launched a single torpedo and sunk the oil tanker SS Montebello off the coast of Cambria just 16 days after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Our museum features this story with a display at the entrance to the museum.
Stuart McDowell’s The Sinking of the SS Montebello describes the dramatic events leading to the night of the attack, the firing of the torpedo and explosion, and the crew’s desperate efforts to escape and survive. Join us for a fascinating telling of this little-known attack whose centerpiece lies ghost-like in the waters off our Central Coast.
Free to the public!
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