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Shipwrecks of the California coast, in the Pacific Ocean; Subcategories. This category has only the following subcategory. S. Shipwrecks on the National Register of ...
"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 project countersued under the SLAPP provisions of California law and prevailed in court. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ] [ note 1 ] The lawsuit drew additional public attention to Streisand's home, giving name to the Streisand effect : the phenomenon in which attempting to hide or censor information instead draws greater attention to the information.
USCGC Woodbine (WAGL-289/WLB-289) was a United States Coast Guard buoy tender. The ship, a 180 feet (55 m) Cactus - or A -class tender, was built in Duluth, Minnesota by the Zenith Dredge Company, laid down on 2 February 1942, launched on 3 July 1942, and commissioned on 17 November 1942, as Woodbine (WAGL-289).
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 ...
Northern California Coast as seen from Muir Beach Overlook. The California Coastal Commission was established in 1972 by voter initiative via Proposition 20. [8] This was partially in response to the controversy surrounding the development of Sea Ranch, a planned coastal community in Sonoma County.
The California oarfish was indeed found just two days before a 4.4 earthquake struck the region and rattled Los Angeles. How U.S. scrambled Kabul withdrawal three years ago California, New York ...
Steam schooner Wapama Wapama in 2005 Esther Johnson, Australian waters as U.S. Army X-9 Wreck of a lumber schooner, San Francisco, CA. Soon steam schooners (wooden but powered) replaced the small two-masters in the dog-hole trade and larger schooners, such as the still existing C.A. Thayer and the Wawona, were built for longer voyages and bigger cargo.