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A steamship that was grounded on Clatsop Spit and wrecked in heavy seas. Tillamook Head. Detroit. 25 December 1855. A brig that bumped ground putting out of the Columbia River. Crew abandoned ship after she took on 7 feet (2.1 m) of water. Ship drifted south and ran aground at Tillamook Head. Tillamook Head. Brant.
Blue Magpie (ship) Blue Magpie. (ship) Blue Magpie was a 105-metre Japanese freighter owned by Jinyu Shipping Company. She was registered at Panama, and chartered to a Dutch corporation. [2] In November 1983, she ran aground at Newport, Oregon, spilling 285,000 litres of crude oil into the coastal waters.
Steamer Newport, with barge lashed on, and launch Beaver departing Newport for Yaquina, c. 1910. Yaquina Bay, like Coos Bay, is a shallow coastal bay on the Oregon Coast in the Pacific Northwest of North America. The principal town on Yaquina Bay is Newport, Oregon. The Yaquina River flows into the bay. Until modern roads reached Newport in the ...
A June 1990 aerial photo of Yaquina Bay in Newport, Oregon. Yaquina Bay (/ j ə ˈ k w ɪ n ə / yə-KWIN-ə) is a coastal estuarine community found in Newport, OregonYaquina Bay is a semi-enclosed body of water, approximately 8 km 2 (3.2 mi 2) in area, with free connection to the Pacific Ocean, but also diluted with freshwater from the Yaquina River land drainage.
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 ...
Thus, on December 30, 1907, Annie Comings was rammed by the barque Europe in the Willamette River near St. Johns, and sank in three minutes, fortunately with no loss of life. Clatsop Chief was sunk in a similar collision with the steamship Oregon on February 28, 1881, that time four people drowned. F.B. Jones was rammed and sunk in 1907 on the ...
Vessel. New Carissa was a Philippine- flagged [1] [3] dry bulk freighter optimized for carriage of woodchips (used for paper pulp production). The vessel was built by Imabari Shipbuilding of Japan using an all-steel construction and was laid down on 30 August 1989. She was 195 meters (640 ft) long and 32 meters (105 ft) wide, with a draft of 10 ...
The SS Caracas (1881–1889) was a coastal passenger steamship built by William Cramp & Sons in Philadelphia. She was the older sister ship to the Valencia. Both Caracas and Valencia (which sank in 1906, and seen after then as a ghost ship) served from New York City to Venezuela. [3] The short life of Caracas ended in 1889, when she ran aground ...