| Trinidad (steam Schooner) | A particularly noteworthy rescue operation by Coast Guard personnel took place off the Willapa Harbor bar on May 7 when the wooden steam schooner Trinidad, outward bound from Raymond for San Francisco with a full cargo of lumber, was overwhelmed by 60-mile-an-hour winds and giant seas off the bar. Capt. I. Hellestone attempted to put his foundering vessel about and run for shelter, but she went out of control and drove hard aground on a submerged shoal off North Spit, just offshore from Willapa Light. Flares from the wreck were sighted by the lookout at the Willapa Bay lifesaving station, but the surf boat from that station was at sea aiding a distressed fishing vessel. Help was summoned from Grays Harbor and the 36-foot motor Iffeboat from Westport put out at the height of the storm, piloted by Boatswain H. J. Perssons. 3 By 3 a.m. the 3829 had negotiated the 14 miles of storm-lashed water and sighted the flares from the Triniddad. Maneuvering skillfully into the breakers, the lifeboat crew safely removed 21 |
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| Trinidad (steam Schooner) | American steam schooner, 974 tons, stranded on the north spit of Willapa bar between Buoys 6 and 7, May 7, 1937. One life was lost. James A. Gibbs, Jr. Pacific Graveyard. A narrative of the ships lost where the Columbia River meets the Pacific Ocean. Portland: Binfords and Mort, 1950, p. 153-190 |
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| Trinidad (steam Schooner) | Gibbs, Pacific Graveyard,p . 185. Mate is lost, one dies, twenty-one saved in harbor shipwreck, The Tacoma Times. May 8, 1937. |
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| Trinidad (steam Schooner) | A particularly noteworthy rescue operation by Coast Guard personnel took place off the Willapa Harbor bar on May 7 when the wooden steam schooner Trinidad, outward bound from Raymond for San Francisco with a full cargo of lumber, was overwhelmed by 60-mile-an-hour winds and giant seas off the bar. Capt. I. Hellestone attempted to put his foundering vessel about and run for shelter, but she went out of control and drove hard aground on a submerged shoal off North Spit, just offshore from Willapa Light. Flares from the wreck were sighted by the lookout at the Willapa Bay lifesaving station, but the surf boat from that station was at sea aiding a distressed fishing vessel. Help was summoned from Grays Harbor and the 36-foot motor Iffeboat from Westport put out at the height of the storm, piloted by Boatswain H. J. Perssons. 3 By 3 a.m. the 3829 had negotiated the 14 miles of storm-lashed water and sighted the flares from the Triniddad. Maneuvering skillfully into the breakers, the lifeboat crew safely removed 21 |
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