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A steamship that was wrecked on the rocks. The 160 passengers and most of the freight were landed on the Oregon shore. [23] Towed in to drydock at Cascade Locks around 1 September. The hull was found to be a "complete wreck." [24] Columbia River: Cascade Locks: Gypsy: 11 June 1900: Tore hole in bottom and sank in ten feet (3.0 m) of water. [25 ...
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 ...
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.
MV New Carissa was a freighter that ran aground and broke apart on a beach near Coos Bay, Oregon, United States, during a storm in February 1999. An attempt to tow the bow section of the ship out to sea failed when the tow line broke, and the bow was grounded again. Eventually, the bow was successfully towed out to sea and sunk.
Graveyard of the Pacific. The Graveyard of the Pacific is a somewhat loosely defined stretch of the Pacific Northwest coast stretching from around Tillamook Bay on the Oregon Coast northward past the treacherous Columbia Bar and Juan de Fuca Strait, up the rocky western coast of Vancouver Island to Cape Scott. [1]
A 98-foot (30 m) crabbing vessel that sank in 250 ft (76 m) of water amid icy conditions just northwest of St. George Island, Alaska in the Bering Sea. 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.
The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total. This list may not reflect recent changes . List of shipwrecks of Oregon. Alaskan (sidewheeler) Beeswax wreck. Blue Magpie (ship) C.H. Wheeler. SS Caracas (1881) SS Charles W. Wetmore.
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 ...