In this undated underwater image provided by NOAA, a fish swims past a circular skylight collapsed inside the officer's quarters in the stern of the shipwreck USCG Cutter McCulloch. Researchers discovered... (Associated Press) 
 
 SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Latest on the discovery of a historic sunken ship in California (all times local): 
 
 11:25 a.m. 
 
 A U.S. Coast Guard ship that sank 100 years ago and has sat deep below the water's surface ever since won't be moved anytime soon. 
 
 Officials said Tuesday while announcing its discovery that strong currents and an abundance of sediment would make moving the ship too difficult. 
 
 The San Francisco-based USCGC McCulloch sank on June 13, 1917, in Southern California after colliding with a civilian steamship. It now sits 300 feet (91 meters) below the surface. 
 
 The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration discovered the ship last fall during a routine survey. 
 
 Cutters based in San Francisco in the late 1800s and early 1900s represented American interests throughout the Pacific. They also played important roles in the development of the Western U.S. 
 
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 12:45 a.m. 
 
 Researchers have discovered the underwater wreck of a U.S. Coast Guard ship that first set out to sea during the Spanish-American War and sunk off the coast of Southern California 100 years ago, officials said. 
 
 Officials on Tuesday will share the history of the San Francisco-based ship and pay tribute to its crews — including two members who died in the line of duty. 
 
 Researchers with the Coast Guard and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration also will tell the story of the joint underwater exploration that led to the shipwreck's discovery. 
 
 The USCGC McCulloch sank on June 13, 1917, 3 miles (5 kilometers) northwest of Point Conception, California, after colliding with a civilian steamship. ||||| A sonar image from 2015 shows an outline of the U.S. Coast Guard cutter called the McCulloch. 
 
 It took just a half hour to sink but a century to be found. 
 
 The U.S. Coast Guard announced on Tuesday (June 13) that it had located the sunken remains of the McCulloch, 100 years after the ship was lost off the coast of Southern California. 
 
 When the McCulloch launched in 1896, it was the largest cruising cutter built at the time, at 219 feet (67 meters) long, with a capacity to hold 130 crewmembers during wartime. The vessel saw action in the Battle of Manila Bay in 1898, during the Spanish-American War. Afterward, it was used to run patrols up and down the U.S. Pacific coast, and it operated in the Bering Sea Patrol, serving as a floating courtroom for remote Alaskan towns and as a base for officers to enforce fur seal regulations. 
 
 When the U.S. got involved in World War I, in April 1917, the McCulloch was put under the command of the U.S. Navy for patrol duties. During a fateful trip from San Pedro to San Francisco on June 13, 1917, the McCulloch encountered the SS Governor, a passenger steamship, traveling in the opposite direction. [See Photos of the Sunken McCulloch Shipwreck] 
 
 The McCulloch had a 20-year career that included battles in the Spanish-American war and patrols along the Alaskan coast. Credit: Mare Island Museum 
 
 The ships collided in the thick fog. Just a half hour later, the McCulloch upended and sank, off Point Conception, California. All of the crew were taken onboard the SS Governor alive, though John Arvid Johansson, the water tender who managed the boilers in the engine room, had been badly injured in the wreckage and died a few days later. 
 
 "As the 100th anniversary was approaching, we decided it would be a fitting tribute to the ship and her crew to wait and make the announcement June 13," Dan Dewell, a public affairs officer with the 11th Coast Guard District in California, told Live Science. 
 
 Previous underwater surveys in the area had identified a possible shipwreck site, Dewell said. And in October 2016, a joint training mission by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Coast Guard set out to further investigate. 
 
 A remotely operated vehicle (ROV) that was designed to look for historic shipwrecks was deployed from the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary's research vessel Shearwater, and it caught footage of the sunken vessel's steel skeleton, draped with anemones. 
 
 Though the ship's hull and decks had been destroyed by wood-boring organisms, the McCulloch still retained some of its giveaway details. Using historic photos and records of the vessel, the researchers were able to match its 11-foot (3 m) bronze propeller, the 15-inch (38 centimeters) torpedo tube set in the bow stem, the steam engine and boilers, among other features. 
 
 Dewell said the Coast Guard has not yet made plans for further research, but the site is protected under the U.S. Sunken Military Craft Act of 2004, which means that no part of the vessel can be disturbed or removed. 
 
 Original article on Live Science.
– The McCulloch, a US Coast Guard ship that saw action in the Spanish-American War in 1898, sank in just a half-hour after it collided with the SS Governor in heavy fog off the coast of California. It had been put back to work during World War I in 1917, but was no match for the gigantic passenger ship. Now, a century later, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Coast Guard have announced that they found the wreckage 150 miles northwest of Los Angeles during a routine survey, reports the AP. While all on board were rescued that day, the Guard paid homage to the ship and its crew. A remotely operated vehicle caught footage of what remains of the ship last fall—mainly a steel skeleton covered with white anemones, reports Live Science. Historic photos helped researchers match the 11-foot bronze propeller and other features. While sea life has eaten away at the ship's hull and decks, a six-pound gun is still mounted at the starboard bow. The ship will likely be left alone, due in part to the US Sunken Military Craft Act of 2004, which prohibits disturbing or moving any part of the vessel. A Coast Guard commander calls the ship "a symbol of hard work and sacrifice of previous generations to serve and protect our nation." (Some believe there's a shipwreck to be found in a California desert.)