| Gem Of The Ocean (bark) | This American bark 702 tons, struck off Vancouver Island, eight miles southeast of Port San Juan, in August 1879 and became a total loss. Captain Hawse and his crew escaped and reached Port Townsend in a small boat. The vessel was bound from Seattle to San Francisco with coal. She was built as a clipper ship in 1852, at Medford, Massachusetts, by Hayden & Cudworth for William Lincoln of Boston. Last owned by McPherson & Witherbee, San Francisco. Jim Gibbs, Shipwrecks off Juan de Fuca, Portland: Binfords and Mort, 1968. |
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| Gem Of The Ocean (bark) | The American bark Gem of the Ocean, Captain Hawse, from Seattle for San Francisco with coal, struck on the west coast of Vancouver Island, in August, about eight miles southeast of Port San Juan, and was reported a total loss. The captain and crew reached Port Townsend in a small boat. E. W. Wright, Modern Propeller Steamships Appear, Oregon Railway & Navigation Company Incorporated, Lewis & Dryden's Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. New York: Antiquarian Press, Ltd., 1961., p.273. |
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