The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1905-10-31
SH|PWRECKS
ON COAST

The Argonaut has the following in
teresting compilations:
The huge gaunt ribs of many once
proud ship project grimly from white
sands or lie curiously among black
rocks along the west coast Of this con-
tinent the east shore of the Pacific
disasters have occurred
one company alone in the course Of its
existence has suffered the loss of thirty
vessels which bore down with them to
1.-THE place of drowned men" more than
fifteen hundred souls. Tall, white
sailed ships; black, swift, steel passen-
ger steamers; iron freight vessels heav-
lily laden; little, unhonored, steam
,coasting schooners with crews of two or
three-vessls, in short, of every sort.
have been sent to their doom at the
soft, treacherous hands of the clinging
fog by disastrous currents, or hidden
rocks that lay in wait. Indeed, the list
of lost ships, even an incomplete list
, is appalling in its extent. Very few
ships there are which had the fortune
/, of the Alameda, which has been got
safely off the rocks upon which she lay
off Fort Point for week, and now
lies safely in her berth. The City of
New York had no such luck. This
great steamer on the afternoon of Oc-
tober q, 1898, struck on the reef at the
Tip of Point Bonita. She was outward
bound, having just left the Pacific Mail
docks, and, like the Alameda, lost her
bearings in a thick fog which settled
down. The passengers were all landed
safely in tugs, and most of the cargo
was also removed, but the steamer
stuck fast on the rocks, and gradually
went to pieces.
The wreck of the Pacific Mail Steam
ship Company's Rio de Janeiro on Fri
day morning, February %, 1901, when
lover one hundred and thirty-one out of
two hundred and eleven on board were
drowned, is too fresh in peoples minds
to require other than mere mention
The vessel was entering the Colder
Gate at four o'clock in the morning
through heavy fog, and struck a
rock a few hundred feet from Fort
Point, going down in less than fifteen
minutes. The master of the ship, Cap
tain Ward, made no attempt to save
himself, but went down with the ship.
His body was found months later. The
ship itself sank in deep water, and its
position has never been determined
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have been made
on the morning of January %, 1903
the steamship Walla Walla, bound from
San Francisco to Seattle, with one hun
dred and forty-four souls on board, col
Ilided with the sailing ship Max, of
lCape Mendocino, and sank in less thar
an hour. The steamschooner Dispatch
picked up RATS and boats containing
It. ,,,l nV,t
ashore. Only thirty-eight of the one
hundred and forty-four passengers Were
lost. The sailing ship escaped will
only a slight injury.
Among the more remarkable disaster
: was the loss of the Pacific Mail steam
ship Colima, which, at eight o'clock oil
the morning of May 81, 1895, wa
+, struck by a gale in latitude eighteen
degrees and thirty-eight minutes an
longitude one hundred and four de
lgrees and fourteen minutes west, OF
the coast of Manzanillo, Mexico, an
4, sent upon her beam-ends, going dow
: in one hundred and thirty fathoms o
lwater within a few minutes, One hun
bred and eighty-one persons wer
drowned and thirty-two swan ashor
, or were picked up. The loss of tn
llOliIila Is BeHerdily peHeNeu W nav
:. been due to bad stowage. She wa
heavily laden above decks with lunl
= Der and petroleum, so that when he
captain attempted to put her about sh
q went upon her beanie ends.
Another wreck which occurred almo'
" in the same place as the wreck Of tn
Colima was the disaster to the Guat,
mala. She also was carried out of III
~, course by a heavy southeasterly ga
and swft-running current. and Wa
, driven upon the rocks about sixty mill
southeast of Manzanillo. 1t was II
lGuatemala's one hundred and first tr
to Panama, and her second voyal
under her then master, Captain T.
Deering. Fortunately. no lives we
lost in this disaster. the steamer Clyt
l. tnking of both passengers and cre'
5. The Guatemala, however. could not
D. pulled on the rocks, and finally brol
d. lup. and was a total loss.
y. The City OF Toxic was wrecked Q
n. the harbor OF Yokohama on June
'. llss5. The vessel grounded In the 10
e. The cargo was jettisoned and the pa