Edith Lorne (bark)

November 17, 1881 Bark, British, 803 tons with a cargo of grain when she was lost on the bar while en route to Queenstown. Captain William Watt said the ship was valued at $60,000, the cargo at $44,000. Ship and cargo a total loss, the crew was saved. Don Marshall, Ship disasters, Cape Falcon to Cape Disappointment, Oregon Shipwrecks. 1984, p. 127-34.

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Edith Lorne (bark)

Stranded on the middle sands of the Columbia Bar in 1881. Gibbs, Pacific Graveyard, p. 162.

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Edith Lorne (bark)

The British bark Edith Lorne, 803 tons, Capt. William Watt, wheat-laden for Queenstown, was wrecked November 17, 1881, while attempting to sail out over the middle sands at the mouth of the Columbia River. The wind died away, and the heavy seas caught her in their trough, so that she struck heavily. The tide kept her moving, with the waves breaking clear over her. Three hours after she struck the sternpost gave way, and she began to leak badly. Capt. Al Harris arrived from Fort Canby with a life-saving crew and rescued all on board. The vessel broke up shortly afterward. The Edith Lorne was drawing but eighteen feet of water, while the British ship Napier, which passed out ahead of her, was drawing twenty-one feet six inches. The Lorne was valued at $60,000, cargo at $44,ooo. E. W. Wright, Marine Business of 1881, Lewis and Drydens Marine History of the Pacific Northwest [Written in 1895], p. 290.

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