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A clipper that ran aground near Pigeon Point. "On the night of June 6, 1853, the clipper ship Carrier Pigeon ran aground 500 feet off shore of the central California coast. The area is now called Pigeon Point in her honor. The Carrier Pigeon was a state-of-the art, 19th Century clipper ship.
The list of shipwrecks of Humboldt County, California lists the ships which sank on or near the coast of Humboldt County from the Del Norte county line to the north, the marine area around Cape Mendocino and south to the Mendocino County line to the south, as well as within Humboldt Bay itself. If survivors or casualties arrived or were ...
Shipwrecks of the California coast, in the Pacific Ocean; Subcategories. This category has only the following subcategory. S. Shipwrecks on the National Register of ...
The wreck, which was buried in the sand, is the most preserved wreck of a wooden clipper ship off the coast of California. [1] Left in place at extreme low tide level in 1878, what is left of the wreck of the King Philip is usually covered in sand. Sometimes, as the profile of the sand on the beach shifts and changes, the timbers reemerge and ...
The wreckage of a Second World War US Navy destroyer known as the “Ghost Ship of the Pacific” has been discovered off the coast of California almost eight decades after it sank.. Ocean ...
The S.S. Point Reyes, long ago abandoned at the edge of Tomales Bay, has been loved and abused by decades of visitors. And its days appear to be numbered.
The Frolic was a brig which sank northeast of Point Cabrillo, near Caspar, California.Historians have called it "the most significant shipwreck on the west coast". [2] Its shipwreck site, later known as "Pottery Cove" or "Frolic Cove", [3] was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Frolic (brig) in 1991.
The ship owners found little cargo of value to ship back to the East Coast out of California and the ships often went back in ballast with a cargo of useless rocks. Since many of the ships were older and required expensive maintenance and crews were very hard to find and/or very expensive many hundreds of vessels were simply abandoned or sold ...