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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.
Peter Iredale United Kingdom: 25 October 1906: The barque's remains can still be seen. Fort Stevens: Gerald C. 10 May 1907: Wrecked on the north spit at the entrance to Nestucca harbor. Pacific City: Antelope: 30 September 1907: A schooner built 1887 in Benicia, California, for a salmon packer. Wrecked at Nehalem River. Nehalem: Emily Reed ...
The wreck of the Peter Iredale, a four-masted steel barque sailing vessel that ran ashore October 25, 1906, on the Oregon coast en route to the Columbia River.It was abandoned on Clatsop Spit near Fort Stevens in Warrenton about four miles (6 km) south of the Columbia River channel.
Unpredictable weather conditions, including storms and fog, and dangerous coastal characteristics, including shifting sandbars, tidal rips, and rocky reefs and shorelines, have caused thousands of ships to wreck in the area since European exploration of the area began in earnest in the 18th century. [2] [3]
I-25 A 10-inch (254 mm) gun at Fort Stevens. The wreck of the Peter Iredale. Even though there were no injuries and very little damage, the Japanese attack on Fort Stevens along with the Aleutian Islands Campaign the same month helped create the 1942 full-scale West Coast invasion scare.
After more than 80 years hidden beneath the waves off Rio de Janeiro, the location of a Brazilian troop transport ship torpedoed and sunk by Nazi Germany was definitively confirmed by Brazil’s ...
Fort Stevens was an American military installation that guarded the mouth of the Columbia River in the state of Oregon.Built near the end of the American Civil War, it was named for Civil War general and former Washington Territory governor, Isaac I. Stevens.
Warrenton, Oregon (near Peter Iredale shipwreck) 1 1 0 36 ft long. Washed ashore in advanced stage of decomposition. First spotted floating offshore from Newport on March 2. [15] 2016 December 3 United States Sister Lake (Caillou Lake), Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana: 1 1 0 23.5 ft long calf. Found dead. Body recovered for necropsy. [16] 2016 ...