Cowlitz (bark)

January 29, 1893 Bark, American, 797 tons. Under Captain William Hansen, the ship sailed from Port Gamble to San Francisco. Ship, captain and crew of 14 were never seen again. Don Marshall, Missing at Sea, Oregon Shipwrecks. Portland: Binford and Mort, 1984, p. 183-186.

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Cowlitz (bark)

An American bark 797 tons, in command of Captain William Hansen, with a crew of 14, sailed from Port Camble for San Francisco with lumber, January 29, 1893. She vanished with all hands, supposedly in a gale off Cape Flattery. Jim Gibbs, Shipwrecks off Juan de Fuca, Portland: Binfords and Mort, 1968.

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Cowlitz (bark)

303 ton vessel. Launched by Green, Wigrams and Green at Blackwell, England in 1840. Sailed on supply voyages for the Hudson's Bay Company in 1841, 1843,1846 and 1849. Sold in 1851. Arthur Throckmorton, Oregon Argonauts, merchant adventurers on the western front, p. 39. Joseph Thomas HJoseph Thomas Heath. Memoris of Nisqually. Memoris of Nisqually., p. 7, 22, 42, 48. Francis N. Blanchet. Notices and Voyages, 1838-1847., p. 134, 137, 142. Jean B. Bolduc. Mission of the Columbia, p. 11, 88, 122, 123. Clinton Clinton Snowden, History of Washington, the rise and progress of an American State . History of Washington., I, p. 475. Richard Montgomery. White Headed Eagle, John McLoughlin, p. 284-86. Alberta B. Fogdall. Royal family of the Columbia...The McLoughlins, p. 209. Norman R. Hacking and W. Kaye Lamb. The Princess Story a century and a half of w, p. 336. Herbert H. Bancroft, History of Oregon., p. 250-51.

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Cowlitz (bark)

The American bark Cowlitz, 797 tons, Capt. William Hansen, with a crew of fourteen, sailed from Port Gamble for San Francisco, January 29th, and has never been heard from. E. W. Wright. Growth of Deep-water Commerce, Great Loss of Life by Marine Disasters, Lewis & Dryden's Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. New York: Antiquarian Press, Ltd., 1961. [Wright completed his book in 1895 and the events described occurred in 1893 and 1894.]., p.413.

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