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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.
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.
Pages in category "Canals in California" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. ... Sacramento Deep Water Ship Channel; Smith Canal;
From 1825 to 1848 the average number of ships traveling to California increased to about 25 ships per year—a large increase from the average of 2.5 ships per year from 1769 to 1824. [27] The port of entry for trading purposes was the Alta California Capital, Monterey, California, where customs duties of about 100% were applied. These high ...
Carrier Pigeon (ship) Centerville Beach Cross; USS Champlin (DD-104) USS Charles J. Kimmel; USS Chauncey (DD-296) SS City of Chester; SS City of Rio de Janeiro; USS Colahan; SS Collaroy; SS Columbia (1880) Sinking of MV Conception; USS Conestoga (AT-54) USS Conyngham (DD-371) SS Cuba (1920) USS Currier
Ships built in California (6 C, 18 P) Shipwrecks of the California coast (1 C, 119 P) Steamboat transport on the Colorado River (1 C, 36 P)
The Sacramento Deep Water Ship Channel (also known as Sacramento River Deep Water Ship Channel or SRDWSC) is a canal from the Port of Sacramento in West Sacramento, California, to the Sacramento River, which flows into San Francisco Bay. It was completed by the United States Army Corps of Engineers in 1963. The channel is about 30 feet (9.1 m ...
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. [1] The ship was built ...