Pegasus another was at Troezen. Hesiod relates how Pegasus was peacefully drinking from a spring when the hero Bellerophon captured him. Hesiod also says Pegasus carried thunderbolts for Zeus. There are several versions of the birth of the winged stallion and his brother Chrysaor in the far distant place at the edge of Earth, Hesiod's "springs of Oceanus, which encircles the inhabited earth, where Perseus found Medusa: One is that they sprang from the blood issuing from Medusa's neck as Perseus was beheading her, similar to the manner in which Athena was born from the head of Zeus. In another version,
USS Medusa (AR-1) she again carried Marines to Nicaragua, this time in company with storeship . "Medusa" continued her fleet support duties out of San Pedro until mid-August 1941, when she moved to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. She was there on 7 December 1941 when Imperial Japanese Navy carrier aircraft attacked. With her commanding officer ashore, her repair officer, Lieutenant Commander John F. P. Miller, took command. "Medusa" fired on a Japanese Type A midget submarine she sighted in the harbor, ceasing fire on it when destroyer closed in to sink the submarine. "Medusa"s antiaircraft machine gunners claimed two Japanese Aichi D3A1 dive bombers