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Lost a year later at the same spot, effectively ruining the vessel owners, the Oregon Development Co. Newport: Yaquina Bay United States: 9 December 1888: Originally named Caracas. She was the sister ship of Valencia and successor of Yaquina Bay. Ran aground near the wreckage of Yaquina City and was declared a total loss. Newport: Alaskan ...
Beeswax wreck. Coordinates: 45.656°N 123.947°W. A piece of beeswax found on Manzanita beach. The Beeswax Wreck is a shipwreck off the coast of the U.S. state of Oregon, discovered by Craig Andes near Cape Falcon in 2013 in Tillamook County. The ship, thought to be the Spanish Manila galleon Santo Cristo de Burgos that was wrecked in 1693, was ...
More than 2,000 ships have wrecked in the area, with more than 700 lives lost, near the Columbia Bar alone. [4] One book lists 484 wrecks at the south and west sides of Vancouver Island. [5] Although major wrecks have declined since the 1920s, several lives are still lost annually. [6]
Peter Iredale. Coordinates: 46.178361°N 123.981003°W. Peter Iredale in Seattle, circa 1900. Peter Iredale was a four-masted steel barque that ran ashore October 25, 1906, on the Oregon coast en route to the Columbia River. She was abandoned on Clatsop Spit near Fort Stevens in Warrenton about four miles (6 km) south of the Columbia River channel.
During World War II, the SS Luray Victory operated in the Pacific Ocean bringing supplies to the US and the Allies. On November 30, 1944, the SS Luray Victory reached New Guinea . The ship was part of convoy GB 720 which carried supplies to forces fighting in the Battle of Leyte and the Battle of Okinawa .
A Balao -class submarine that was sunk as a target off San Clemente. 33°25′30″N 117°37′44″W / 33.425°N 117.629°W / 33.425; -117.629 (USS Moray (SS-300)) USS Naifeh. United States Navy. 11 July 1966. A John C. Butler -class destroyer escort that was sunk as a target off San Clemente Island.
The Honda Point disaster was the largest peacetime loss of U.S. Navy ships in U.S. history. [3] On the evening of September 8, 1923, seven destroyers, while traveling at 20 knots (37 km/h), ran aground at Honda Point (also known as Point Pedernales; the cliffs just off-shore called Devil's Jaw), a few miles from the northern side of the Santa Barbara Channel off Point Arguello on the Gaviota ...
List of U.S. National Historic Landmark ships, shipwrecks, and shipyards. This is a list of the 133 National Historic Landmarks in the United States that are ships, shipwrecks, or shipyards. [1] Of the more than 2,500 NHLs, about 5 percent are ships, shipwrecks, or shipyards. The NHL ships, shipwrecks, and shipyards are distributed across 31 ...