Olympic
Coast National Marine Sanctuary
Shipwreck Database
(partial list)
Vessel
Name
*Not
a total loss
4 miles south [Capt. Thompson - pilot]
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Coast National Marine Sanctuary
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Vessel
Name |
Casualty Location | Year Built | Year Lost | Month | Cargo | Cause | Latitude | Longitude |
| Alice B. | Neah Bay, 1 mile west of Lifesaving Station | 1912 | 1929 | 03 | Ice and bait | Lost Mooring | 48° 23 N | 124° 38 W |
| Austria | Cape Alava | 1870 | 1887 | 01 | Ballast | Navigation | 48° 10 N | 124° 44 W |
| Cassandra Adams | Destruction Island, North Reef of | 1876 | 1888 | 08 | None | Navigation | 47° 40 N | 124° 29 W |
| Charles B. Kenney | Tatoosh Island, off | 1878 | 1886 | 11 | Lumber | Unknown | 48°23 N | 124° 44 W |
| Chetzemoka | La Push, nine miles northwest | 1927 | 1977 | 05 | Unseaworthy | 47° 54 N | 124° 38 W | |
| Coast Trader | Cape Flattery, 37 miiles SW of Tatoosh Island | 1920 | 1942 | 06 | Newsprint | Torpedoed | 48° 15 N | 125° 40 W |
| Commodore | Cape
Flattery, Tatoosh Island 2 miles south [WR] 4 miles south [Capt. Thompson - pilot] |
1856 | 1877 | 01 | Ballast | Strong Gale | 48° 23 N | 124° 44 W |
| Condor, H.M.S. | Cape Flattery, Off 50-100 miles | 1898 | 1901 | 12 | Gale | 48° 15 N | 125° 40 W | |
| Ellen Foster | Neah Bay, Koitlah Point | 1852 | 1867 | 12 | Ballast | Gale | 48° 23 N | 124° 38 W |
| Emily Farnum | Destruction Island, south end | 1854 | 1875 | 11 | Railroad Iron | Gale | 47° 40 N | 124° 29 W |
| Free Trade | Quillayutee Rocks, Off | 1866 | 1878 | 10 | Lumber | Act of God [Storm] | 47° 52 N | 124° 37 W |
| General M. C. Meigs (AP-116) | Cape Flattery, 7 nautical miles south of Portage Head "Wreck Cove" | 1944 | 1972 | 01 | Drums of Shipboard Solvent-Tug Lash to Deck - Steel Lifeboats | Gale | 48° 16 N | 124° 40 W |
| Grace Darling | Cape Flattery, Off | 1854 | 1878 | 01 | Coal | 48° 23 N | 124° 44 W | |
| Graywood | Strait of Juan de Fuca, 3 miles inside | 1904 | 1915 | 10 | Heavy Seas | 48° 24 N | 124° 39 W | |
| H. F. Alexander* | Cape Flattery, Cake Rock | 1915 | 1922 | 08 | Navigation | 47° 55 N | 124° 41W | |
| Harvey Mills | Cape Flattery, 60 mi. off | 1876 | 1886 | 12 | Gale | 48° 15 N | 125° 40 W | |
| Hunter | Cape Johnson, Near (off Carroll Island) | 1883 | 1920 | 05 | Unseaworthy | 48° 00 N | 124° 43 W | |
| Lake Gebhart | Toleak Point, Giants Graveyard (8 miles north of Destruction Island) | 1919 | 1923 | 05 | General & Sugar | Navigation | 47° 50 N | 124° 32 W |
| Lamut | Quillayute Rocks, Needles, shoals off Teakwhit Head | 1919 | 1943 | 03 | Navigation | 47° 52 N | 124° 36 W | |
| Matterhorn | Umatilla Reef, 70 mi. off | 1882 | 1909 | 11 | Barley | Storm | 48° 15 N | 125° 40 W |
| Mogul | Tatoosh Island, beached 2 miles east of | 1886 | 1895 | 05 | None | Collision with vessel Darra | 48° 23 N | 124° 40 W |
| Port Gordon | Destruction Island, 7 miles below on mainland | 1882 | 1889 | 02 | Navigation | 47° 32 N | 124° 21 W | |
| Skagway | Tatoosh Island, Fuca's Pillar or Skagway Rocks | 1908 | 1929 | 12 | Glycerine, alcohol, plaster, graphite, oils, tires, oranges and paint) | Fire and rough weather | 48° 22 N | 124° 44 W |
| Southerner | Cape Flattery, south of (Mukkaw Bay) | 1846 | 1854 | 12 | Leak Due to Storm | 48° 19 N | 124° 40 W | |
| St. Nicholas | Quillayute River (North of James Island) | 1808 | 11 | Currents plus dead calm then lee shore | 47° 54 N | 124° 38 W | ||
| Temple Bar | Quillayute Needles-La Push (off Carroll Island) | 1928 | 1939 | 04 | Scrap Iron | 47° 52 N | 124° 37 W | |
| The Sir Jamsetjee Family | Quinault River, Near (Cape Elizabeth) | 1863 | 1886 | 11 | Ballast | Gale | 47° 20 N | 124° 18 W |
| Umatilla* | Umatilla Reef | 1881 | 1884 | 02 | Coal | Uncharted Hazard, Navigation | 48° 11 N | 124° 46 W |
| W. J. Pirrie | La Push, north side of Cake Rock | 1883 | 1920 | 11 | Lumber & Oil | Lost Hawser | 47° 56 N | 124° 40 W |
| Wide West | Destruction Island | 1877 | 1889 | 12 | Poor Judgment & Gale | 47° 40 N | 124° 29 W | |