Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The existence of the wreck was recorded in native oral history, with descendants of survivors including Chief Kilchis. It is the earliest known shipwreck in the Pacific Northwest. [1] [2] [3] Nehalem: General Warren United States: 30 January 1852: A steamship that was grounded on Clatsop Spit and wrecked in heavy seas: Tillamook Head: Detroit ...
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 ...
Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum: Michigan: Port Hope: Pointe aux Barques Light: Archived 2009-02-03 at the Wayback Machine: Michigan: Rogers City: Great Lakes Lore Maritime Museum: Michigan: Sault Ste. Marie: River of History Museum: Michigan: Sault Ste. Marie: Soo Locks Visitor Center: Michigan: South Haven: Michigan Maritime Museum: Y Michigan ...
was in Connecticut and New York; now owned by the United States Lightship Museum 74: Lightship No. 116, "Chesapeake" Maryland 20 December 1989: at the Baltimore Maritime Museum: 75: Lightship WAL-604, "Columbia" Oregon 20 December 1989: 76: Lightship WAL-605, "Relief" California 20 December 1989: 77: USS Lionfish: Massachusetts 14 January 1986 ...
The museum is accredited by the American Alliance of Museums. [6] It is the official state maritime museum for Oregon. [5] The museum opened 62 years ago in August 1963 [2] in the Old Astoria City Hall and in 1982 it moved to its current location, on the waterfront. [7] [8] [9] A remodeling and expansion was undertaken in 2001–02.
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]
Researchers continue to seek out — and find — missing shipwrecks each year, with many lost to history. Among the most famous wrecks is the Edmund Fitzgerald, which went down in a fierce ...
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.