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Ships are usually declared lost and assumed wrecked after a period of disappearance. The disappearance of a ship usually implies all hands lost. Without witnesses or survivors, the mystery surrounding the fate of missing ships has inspired many items of nautical lores and the creation of paranormal zones such as the Bermuda Triangle.
The point was granted as a part of Rancho El Sur in 1834 by Governor José Figueroa to Juan Bautista Alvarado. [2]Point Sur was a notorious hazard to navigation. The 725-ton steamer USS Ventura was the fastest ship in Goodall, Nelson & Perkins’ fleet; she could do thirteen knots.
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]
List of ships sunk by the Imperial Japanese Navy; List of Allied ships lost to Italian surface vessels in the Mediterranean (1940–43) List of wrecked or lost ships of the Ottoman steam navy; List of United States Navy losses in World War II
The captain and five crew members were lost with the boat. [6] Eliza Anderson: March 1898 A steamboat that was abandoned and washed ashore at Dutch Harbor. Farallon United States: 5 January 1910 A passenger steamer, wrecked in the Cook Inlet. [3] Feniks Russia: 1799 Russian-American Company ship Feniks (or Phoenix) lost at sea while sailing for ...
A Design 1023 cargo ship sunk by the Japanese submarine I-26 off the entrance to the Strait of Juan de Fuca, the first American ship sunk off the coast of the State of Washington during World War II 48°19′N 125°40′W / 48.317°N 125.667°W / 48.317; -125.667 ( SS Coast
List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1862 Ship State Description A. B. Thompson United States American Civil War: Captured by the Confederate privateer Lady Davis ( Confederate States of America) in 1861, the 980-ton full-rigged ship was scuttled as a blockship in the Savannah River in Georgia by Confederate forces in late 1861 or early 1862.
A steamship that struck the bar off the entrance to Tillamook Bay and foundered. Two crew and two passengers were drowned. Sister ship, the Argo #2, a river steamer, went down at Dixon Entrance in Alaska. Barview: Vida: 28 April 1912: A gas schooner that lost its rudder and broke into pieces on Tillamook Bar. Barview: George R. Vosberg: 3 May 1912