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My Yachting Adventures

	Below is a list of links to the main pages about my yacht, *Catlypso* and My Yachting Adventures: Purchase of Catlypso Details about Catlypso Cleaning/Repairing Catlypso My Yachting Adventures.

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Michael's 4WD Trips

	Click here for a list of my Four Wheel Drive and Camping Trips.

Home Brewing

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SS President Coolidge - Main Index

Michael McFadyen's Scuba Diving - SS President Coolidge - Index The following index is of the pages in my Web Site that are about the SS President Coolidge. They are in a logical order from the history of the shipping lines that owned the ship, the shipbuilder who built it, the ship itself and its history, the sinking, the aftermath of the sinking and the dives on her now. I would encourage you to work through the pages in this order.

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.

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