Saginaw (U.S.S.)

From NavSource: "The ship intending to touch at Ocean Island enroute home to rescue any shipwrecked sailors who might be stranded there. On 29 October, as this vesselneared this rarely visited island, Saginaw struck an outlying reef and grounded the surf battered the ship to pieces but the crew was able to get ashore with some of the ship' stores. On 18 November, a party of five men, headed by LT. John G. Talbot, the executive officer, set out for Honolulu in a small boat to get relief for their stranded shipmates. As they neared Kauai, 31 days and some 1,500 miles later, their boat was upset by breakers. Only Coxswain William Halford survived to obtain help for the marooned men of Saginaw."