Phyllis (steamer)

The steam schooner Phyllis, built at Aberdeen in 1917, went ashore five miles south of Port Orford on March 9 while bound from San Francisco for Portland. The vessel became a total loss, although there were no casualties. Her cargo of oil in drums and general cargo was largely salvaged through the ingenious use of a high -line of the type used to transport logs in the Northwest logging camps, the cable stretching a mile and a quarter from the steam schooner, stranded in the breakers, to high ground above the beach. Gordon Newell, Maritime events of 1936, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 449.

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Phyllis (steamer)

The steam schooner Phyllis, built at Aberdeen in 1917, went ashore five miles south of Port Orford on March 9 while bound from San Francisco for Portland. The vessel became a total loss, although there were no casualties. Her cargo of oil in drums and general cargo was largely salvaged through the ingenious use of a high -line of the type used to transport logs in the Northwest logging camps, the cable stretching a mile and a quarter from the steam schooner, stranded in the breakers, to high ground above the beach. Gordon Newell, Maritime events of 1936, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 449.

Citation: Tacoma Public Library