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"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. She was 175 feet long with a narrow, 34 foot beam and rated at about 845 tons burden.
The ship lost cabin electrical power shortly after the initial impact. [41] "The [ship] started shaking. The noise—there was panic, like in a film, dishes crashing to the floor, people running, [and] falling down the stairs," reported a survivor. Those on board said the ship suddenly tilted to the port side. [15]
It is the worst maritime disaster in California since the sinking of the Brother Jonathan in 1865, and the deadliest in the United States overall since the USS Iowa turret explosion in 1989. [3] It is also the deadliest transportation-related disaster in the United States since the 2009 Colgan Air Flight 3407 crash near Buffalo, New York. [4]
Built in 1888 in Philadelphia, this passenger ship wrecked at the entrance to Humboldt Bay. One person died in the first boat lowered, the rest of the 154 people on board waited for rescue by the life-saving station and were saved. The ship rotted where it came aground. [3] Her wreck could be seen until at least the early 1970s.
The 113,561-ton Ruby Princess “made unexpected contact with the dock at Pier 27” at the port of San Francisco, Princess Cruises said. But the cruise line was still hoping to embark on another ...
Monday, waves caused a pier to collapse at the Santa Cruz Wharf, about 70 miles south of San Francisco. Two people were rescued and another swam to safety when part of the structure fell into the ...
Rough swell impacted the harbor in Santa Cruz, California. Less than 2 miles away, approximately 150 feet of a pier under reconstruction collapsed , sending three people into the Pacific Ocean.
The Russian-American Company ship (also spelled Kad’iak and Kodiak; formerly Myrtle), wrecked at Honolulu Harbor, Oahu. [7] USS LST-480 United States Navy: 21 May 1944 A tank landing ship sunk following the West Loch Disaster in Pearl Harbor. USNS Mission San Miguel United States: 8 October 1957 A fleet oiler run aground on Maro Reef. USS S-28