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A barque that later ran aground in fog on Nehalem Spit, then capsized in salvage operation, killing 17. Manzanita. Glenesslin. 1 October 1913. A square rig that sailed into the rocks at the base of Neahkahnie Mountain, on a clear day.
Norwegian barque; wrecked off Hatteras Island. Hesperides. United Kingdom. 9 October 1897. British cargo ship; stranded on Diamond Shoals. Home. United States. 10 October 1837. Steam packet ship wrecked off the beach of Ocracoke Island, North Carolina, in the 1837 Racer's Storm hurricane.
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]
United States Navy. 1 April 1864. A Union stern-wheel tinclad minesweeper and gunboat sunk by a naval mine (called a "torpedo" at the time) in Mobile Bay. USS Tecumseh. United States Navy. 5 August 1864. A Union monitor warship sunk by a naval mine (called a "torpedo" at the time) during the Battle of Mobile Bay.
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 carrying a large cargo of beeswax, lumps of which have been found scattered along Oregon's ...
SS. Oregon. (1883) SS Oregon was a record-breaking British passenger liner that won the Blue Riband for the Guion Line as the fastest liner on the Atlantic in 1884. She was sold to the Cunard Line after a few voyages and continued to improve her passage times for her new owner.
A 57-foot (17 m) scallop fishing vessel that capsized and sank during a powerful storm off the coast of Martha's Vineyard with four crew members aboard. Only one survivor was found, and the other three are presumed deceased. [4] [5] [6] Mertie B. Crowley: 23 January 1910 A schooner that ran aground on Wasque Shoal, off Martha's Vineyard. Nantucket
A British cargo ship torpedoed and sunk by U-67 off the coast of Apalachicola [citation needed] 29°29′N 85°17′W / 29.483°N 85.283°W / 29.483; -85.283 (Empire Mica) HMS Fox (1799) Royal Navy. 1799. A 14 gun schooner that was sunk off Dog Island. [citation needed] Grace Andrews.