2026 MUSEUM SPEAKER SERIES
Author Talk with Stuart McDowell, presented by the Central Coast Veterans Memorial Museum in San Luis Obispo
Thursday, August 20th
4:30pm
SLO Vets Hall
801 Grand Avenue, San Luis Obispo
(Entrance doors at the front of brick building facing Grand Ave)
Free to attend.
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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.
Questions?
EVENT HOST CONTACT INFORMATION:
Central Coast Veterans Memorial Museum
Email: ccvmm.programs@gmail.com
Phone: (805) 543-1763
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We are 100% community supported as a 501c3 nonprofit museum. Our annual Speaker Series is supported through your donations.
To make a donation to support this event and similar events at The Veterans Museum please visit our online donation page: https://vetmuseum.org/donate/
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CCVMM
801 Grand Avenue, Suite 102
San Luis Obispo, CA 93401.
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The Central Coast Veterans Memorial Museum is always for looking for great people to join our team in support of the museum’s mission to Honor and Remember our veterans.
Please send an email or complete our volunteer application form here: https://vetmuseum.org/about/staff/volunteer-application/ |
