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California State Lands Commission Shipwreck Information Notice and disclaimer Shipwrecks are considered archaeological sites that may be protected under state law.1 The information shown below is taken from the California State Lands Commission (CSLC) Shipwreck Database. This information was taken from books, old newspapers, and other contemporary accounts that do not contain precise locations. Not all shipwrecks are listed and many ships were salvaged or re-floated. Project planners preparing CEQA and NEPA documents may request a search of the CSLC’s Shipwreck Database. Additional information is available for some shipwrecks.2 Please contact the Shipwreck Database Coordinator at [email protected] for further information. This information is not intended to be nor shall it be construed as a waiver or limitation of any interest of the State in the subject or any other property. Disclaimer of Liability: This information is not suitable for any legal purpose. The CSLC makes no warranty of any kind, express or implied, nor assumes any legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any of the information. The CSLC assumes no legal liability or responsibility for anyone's use of the information.
1 California Public Resources Code section 6314. Unauthorized removal of or damage to archaeological
site or historical resource; Punishment. 2 Not all information may be available to the general public. (California Government Code section
6254.10. Archaeological site information.)
California State Lands Commission Shipwreck Information
Ship's Name Type Year Built Year Sunk Cause Owner Captain Length Beam Tonnage Engine County
A C Dutton Barge 1953 Wrecked Sonoma
A Crosby Schooner 1869 Foundered 70 sail Santa Cruz
A F Jordan Two Masted Schooner 1878 Wrecked Crack 181 sail Mendocino
A J Burr Schooner 1868 Foundered King sail Farallon Islands
A J Mouje Schooner 1869 Stranded sail Mendocino
Abbie Schooner 1876 1890 Grounded
J.G. Jackson, Caspar
Lumber Co. Hansen 98.5 feet 29.5 feet 146 sail Mendocino
Aberdeen Three Masted Ship 1847 1852 Wrecked 154 feet 32.4 feet 718 sail San Francisco
Aberdeen Steam schooner 1899 1916 Grounded Fred Lindeman Knudson, Peter 170 feet 34 feet 499
425 hp compound
steam San Francisco
Abraham Lincoln Gas motor vessel 1925 1931 Explosion 77 feet 71 San Mateo
Acadia Bark 1861 Grounded Gage sail Humboldt
Acalin Purse seiner 1928 1934 Stranded Frank Acalin Acalin, Frank 73 feet 18.7 feet 87 diesel Marin
Ace #1 Barge 1944 1948 Foundered 96 Orange
Ace of Clubs Steamboat 1869 Snagged
Achille Paladini Fishing boat 1937 1956 Wrecked 98 Oil screw Mendocino
Acme #1 Steam screw 1888 1889 Stranded 72 feet 22 feet 77 Sonoma
Active Schooner 1872 1876 Stranded 92 feet 29 feet 148 sail Santa Cruz
Active Steam schooner 1849 1870 Stranded
North Pacific Steamship
Company Lyons, C. E. 172 feet 27 feet 510 2 inclined/210 hp Humboldt
Acuelo Ship 1872 Stranded McKay 800 sail San Mateo
Ada Hancock Steam screw 1859 1863 Explosion Gen. Pheanias T. Banning 65 feet 83 Los Angeles
Ada May Two Masted Schooner 1880 Stranded sail San Mateo
Adelaide Two Masted Schooner 1883 1889 Parted lines Mortensen 96.5 feet 28.25 feet 130 sail Mendocino
Adelaide Cooper Bark 1853 1879 Stranded 297 sail Los Angeles
Adele Hobson Motor vessel 1904 1934 Burned A.F. Johnston A.F. Johnston 73 oil screw Contra Costa
Admiral Oil screw 1900 1949 Foundered 26 San Diego
Admiral Goodrick Steam schooner 1913 1923 Stranded Humboldt
Admiralen 1911 Humboldt
Adonde 1941 South Channel Islands
Adriatic Oil screw 1920 1930 42 South Channel Islands
Advance Brig 1870 Wrecked Foye 210 sail Ventura
Advance Three Masted Schooner 1932 42 South Channel Islands
Aeine Gas screw 1913 Burned San Francisco
Aeolus Brig 1863 Wrecked sail Humboldt
Aeriel 1888 Mendocino
AF-2W Guardian Aircraft 0 U.S. Navy
Aggi Bark 1894 1915
tow parted, cargo
shift Norwegian Olsen, Ansker 265 feet 39.1 feet 1898 sail North Channel Islands
Agnes Gas motor vessel 1886 1931 Foundered 53 San Joaquin
Agnes Jones Scow schooner 1889 Burned sail Sonoma
Agnes Nicholaisen Two Masted Schooner 1876 1886
Struck rock, lost
rudder Nicholaisen 68 Mendocino
Agram 1940 Wrecked Orange
Ahmrietta Schooner 1879 Wrecked 98 sail Humboldt
Aimeer Two Masted Schooner 1870 1871 Stranded 86 feet 26 feet 96.25 sail San Francisco
Ajax Steam screw 1888 1890 Grounded
Oregon Coal and Lumber
Co. Donaldson 212 feet 32 feet 534 Humboldt
Ajax Two Masted Schooner 1869 Parted moorings E. W. Burr Ahern 74 sail Mendocino
Alaska Steamship 1899 1921 Grounded Big Three Line 327 feet 45 feet 3709 Humboldt
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California State Lands Commission Shipwreck Information
Ship's Name Type Year Built Year Sunk Cause Owner Captain Length Beam Tonnage Engine County
Alaskan 1910 San Diego
Albatross Gas fishing boat 0 1926 gasoline South Channel Islands
Albert 1874 Marin
Albert Three Masted Bark 1890 1919 Stranded 682 sail Marin
Albert and Edward Two Masted Schooner 1875 1876 Stranded 96 sail Mendocino
Albert Harris Pilot schooner 1850 Grounded sail San Francisco
Albert Walter Schooner 1889 Abandoned sail Mendocino
Albion Coal steamer 1861 1893 Grounded Richardson Co. Jacobs 120 feet 31 feet 202 Mendocino
Albion Steam screw schooner 1892 1913 Stranded G. H. Collins 120 feet 31 feet 215 2cyl, 1101hp Sonoma
Albion River Steam schooner 1902 1903 Grounded B F Weston Basch 137.1 feet 31.7 feet 382 Sonoma
Alcatraz Sternwheel Steamboat Kings
Alcatraz Steam schooner 1887 1917 Stranded L. E. White 255 Mendocino
Alcazar Steam schooner 1887 1907 Grounded L E White (?) Fagerlund 132 feet 32 feet 263 Mendocino
Alcyone Two Masted Schooner 1861 1863 Capsized sail Mendocino
Alden Anderson Steam screw 1908 1924 Burned 636 Contra Costa
Alert Sidewheel Steamboat 1885 1919 Foundered 65 Solono
Alert Schooner 1868 Stranded San Mateo
Aleut Tug 1890 Stranded
Alfred Two Masted Schooner 1870 1886 Parted moorings
Capts.Olsen, Blair &
Hendricks Olsen 88 sail Mendocino
Alice Power schooner 1874 1930 1425 Los Angeles
Alice Buck Ship 1870 1881 Stranded J.P White & Co.,Belfast Herringson, Herman 1425 sail San Mateo
Alice Garrett 1888 Parted moorings San Francisco
Aliciel Gas screw 1916 1916 Stranded 709 San Diego
Allenaire Gas screw 1915 1920 Burned 56
Allessandro Fishing boat 1874 Capsized Marin
Alliance #2 Two Masted Schooner 1899 1915 Grounded Jean Albia DeLouchry 105 Mendocino
Alma Oil yawl 1909 1933 Grounded 124 Los Angeles
Aloah 1952 Ventura
Aloha Steam schooner 1901 Burned Wehman 127 feet 31 feet 216 Marin
Alpha Schooner 1869 Grounded Contra Costa
Alpine Gas screw 1892 1924 Burned T.K. Kuhre Kuhre, T.K. 82 feet 26 feet 95 gasoline Contra Costa
Alton Oil screw 1904 Grounded Contra Costa
Alven Besse Ship 1929 Burned sail Alameda
Alviso Sidewheel Steamboat 1896 1920 Burned 197 Yolo
Alviso Two Masted Schooner 1883 Wrecked sail Mendocino
Amanda Ager Schooner 1868 Storm
Middlemas & Boole, Capt.
Haynes Haynes sail Humboldt
Amazon Lumber schooner 1865 Stranded San Francisco
Amazone Two Masted Schooner 1876 Parted Moorings Schmaling sail Mendocino
Ameco 1917 1930 Swamped Mrs. Clifford Morris Lightfoot, Bill Los Angeles
Amelia 1889 Burned Contra Costa
Amelia Steamship 1874 Stranded Solono
America Oil screw 1910 1957 55 South Channel Islands
American Beauty 1954 South Channel Islands
American Boy Oil screw 1930 1956 130 Los Angeles
American Boy Two Masted Schooner 1882 1890 Stranded Hammond 106 feet 32 feet 183 sail Farallon Islands
American Clipper 1948 Wrecked Monterey
American Eagle Del Norte
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California State Lands Commission Shipwreck Information
Ship's Name Type Year Built Year Sunk Cause Owner Captain Length Beam Tonnage Engine County
American Eagle Steamship 1851 1853 Explosion
Capt. Lubbuck & Mr.
Chazul 135 feet 27.5 feet 2 ind. 75hp San Joaquin
American Girl Oil screw 1951 Los Angeles
American Rose Oil screw 1944 1952 Burned 120 South Channel Islands
Amie Bark 1882 Grounded Landbourg 628 sail Los Angeles
Anaconda 1946 Los Angeles
Anastasia Schooner 1876 Collision sail
Andrew D Oil screw 1937 1953 Burned 116 Ventura
Andrew Peterson Three Masted Schooner 1905 Wrecked sail Mendocino
Anglo-American 1861 Wrecked Marin
Ann Perry Bark 1825 1865 Stranded Capt. Chase Trask 107 feet 27 feet 348 sail San Francisco
Ann Sophia Schooner 1870 Wrecked Berry sail Mendocino
Anna Two Masted Schooner 1885 Wrecked sail Mendocino
Anna R Forbes Schooner 1867 Grounded Contra Costa
Anna Schafer 1940 Wrecked Schafer Bros. Logging Co. San Francisco
Anne (Annie) Schooner 1871 Stranded sail Marin
Annie 1920 Marin
Annie Schooner 1874 Wrecked sail Mendocino
Annie E Smale Four Masted Schooner 1903 1910 Grounded Swayne and Hart Anderson 200 feet 41 feet 845 Marin
Annie Gee Schooner 1897 147 sail Los Angeles
Annie H Johnson Lumber schooner 1879 Stranded sail Santa Cruz
Annie Iverson Two Masted Schooner 1873 Stranded 42 sail Mendocino
Annie Lysle Schooner 1875 1875 Stranded Swan sail Santa Barbara
Annie M Rolph Bark 1918 1942 Wrecked 1393 sail Los Angeles
Annie Nermine Schooner 1885 Wrecked sail Humboldt
Annie Sisie Ship 1856 1871 Stranded Sise and Chase
Tucker or Shields,
George 182 feet 36.5 feet 1030 sail Farallon Islands
Annie Stoffer Two Masted Schooner 1870 1879 119 sail Mendocino
Anor Two Masted Schooner 1855 Wrecked sail Mendocino
Antelope Sidewheel Steamboat 1888 Wrecked 203 feet
Anubis 1908 North Channel Islands
Apache II Oil screw 1930 1952 Stranded 13 Humboldt
Apollo Packet 1831 1851 121 feet 27 feet 422 Sail San Francisco
Aquarius Oil screw 1965 1980 Foundered 49 San Diego
Aquila 1949 Los Angeles
Arakan Steamship 1920 Wrecked Marin
Arbutus Oil yacht 1930 1936 48 South Channel Islands
Archie and Fontie Two Masted Schooner 1890 1902 Wrecked H. A. Richardson 76.5 feet 25.5 feet 61 sail Sonoma
Arctic Steam schooner 1901 1922 Grounded
Union Lumber Co. of San
Francisco 145 feet 32 feet 373 Mendocino
Ardor 1945 San Diego
Argonaut Schooner 1890 Stranded 105 feet 30 feet 194 sail San Mateo
Arispe Steam screw 1853 1854 Grounded Ryan,Duff & others Pierce 131.3 feet 30 feet 336 Mendocino
Aristocratis 1949 North Channel Islands
Aristozehis 1954 Los Angeles
Arkansas 1941 Los Angeles
Arkansas 1849
Armenia Clipper 1877 1899 Wrecked Woolwich, E.L. Carter 1643 sail Contra Costa
Arrow Steamship 1867 Burned San Joaquin
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California State Lands Commission Shipwreck Information
Ship's Name Type Year Built Year Sunk Cause Owner Captain Length Beam Tonnage Engine County
Artful Dodger Two Masted Schooner 1877 Stranded Colman 53 sail Mendocino
Ashme Humboldt
Asiatic Prince 1928 Los Angeles
Associated Oil #8 Barge 1926 1952 Foundered 487 none Contra Costa
Astorian 1937 Los Angeles
Atlantic Whaling bark 1851 1886 Stranded J. and William R. Wing Warren 116.2 feet 26.3 feet 292 sail San Francisco
Aurora Four Masted Schooner 1901 1935 Stranded Allen Knight 1211 Monterey
Aurora Oil screw 1940 1952 Burned 122 North Channel Islands
Autocrat Ship 1859 1868 Grounded 1130 sail San Francisco
Avalon Gas screw 1899 1926 9 Los Angeles
Avalon Steam screw 1891 1960 parted anchor Al Kidman 265 feet 38 feet 1985 none Los Angeles
Ayacucho Brig 1841 Stranded Jose Yves Limantour Limantour, Jose Yves sail Marin
B F Lee Two Masted Schooner 1877 Collision 98 sail Mendocino
Babinda Gas screw 1919 1923 Burned Ocean Motorship Company 269 feet 49 feet 2483 Monterey
Bacchus Barge 1916 1926 Wrecked 311 Los Angeles
Bachelor Boy Gas screw 1923 45 Orange
Bahada Steam tug 1902 1923 132 Los Angeles
Balboa Oil screw 1937 1849 North Channel Islands
Ballard 1872 Wrecked Mendocino
Bar Bee Steam screw North Channel Islands
Barbara Two Masted Schooner 1877 1901 Wrecked L.G. Peterson & others Beck 89 feet 28 feet 113 sail Mendocino
Barbara Fritchie Two Masted Schooner 1880 Wrecked 55 sail Mendocino
Bashon 1949 South Channel Islands
Beeswing Two Masted Schooner 1863 Grounded
Robert Young & Thomas
McRae sail San Mateo
Belgian King Steamship 1899 Stranded San Diego
Belle Sidewheel Steamboat 1853 1856 Boiler explosion Houston, Charles H. Sacramento
Belle Sternwheel Steamboat 1870 Snagged Sacramento
Belle Isle Screw Ferry 1930 1934 Foundered 169 San Diego
Belvedere Excursion boat 1933 30 feet
Benecia Steamship 1851 Snagged Hight
Benevolence Hospital ship 1945 1950 Collision 520 feet 71 feet 13330 dual-cyl turbine San Francisco
Benita 1951 Los Angeles
Benjie Boy Oil screw 1950 1955 Burned 64 South Channel Islands
Berkeley Steam schooner 1906 1907 Burned Higgins, A. D. 571 Santa Barbara
Bertha Dolbeer Three Masted Schooner 1881 1918 Burned 242 sail Humboldt
Bessie Brady Lake steamer 1882 Burned Inyo
Bessie Everding Two Masted Schooner 1876 1888 Stranded Jorgensen 73.5 feet 25.5 feet 73.7 sail San Francisco
Bettie Danielson Two Masted Scow Schooner 1902 Blown onto rocks Anderson 85 sail Mendocino
Bialchi Tug boat 1947 Collision 71 feet San Francisco
Bianca Schooner 1861 Stranded Stevens, William Sonoma
Bill the Butcher Two Masted Schooner 1893 Parted lines Peterson 84.5 feet 26.5 feet 85 sail Mendocino
Billcoma(Billcona) Oil screw 1943 1952 Foundered 71 North Channel Islands
Bishop Steam screw 1877 Stranded Marin
Black Dolphin North Channel Islands
Black Dragon Gas screw 1918 1955 Foundered 10 Humboldt
Blode Oil screw 1926 1946 Collision 31 Humboldt
Blue Fin Oil screw 1930 1944 Stranded 94 North Channel Islands
Blue Sky Oil screw 1930 1952 Wrecked 99 South Channel Islands
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California State Lands Commission Shipwreck Information
Ship's Name Type Year Built Year Sunk Cause Owner Captain Length Beam Tonnage Engine County
Bob Naptha launch 1893 Capsized Marin
Bobby Gas screw 1946 1947 Stranded 15 Humboldt
Bobolink Two Masted Schooner 1868 1898 Wrecked
J. B. Ford, Mendocino
Lumber Co. Peterson 104.5 feet 29.25 feet 170 sail Mendocino
Bohemia Steam screw 1875 1931 Wrecked U.S. Navy 1633 San Diego
Boko Maru 1939 San Francisco
Bol 1942 Orange
Bonita Pilot schooner 1900 Rammed by whale Scott 81 feet sail Farallon Islands
Bounty II Ship sail South Channel Islands
Brant Oil screw 1926 1960 149 North Channel Islands
Bremen Bark 1858 1882 Grounded
E Bates and Sons,
Liverpool Dougall 328 feet 40 feet 2687 sail Farallon Islands
Brigit 1914 Wrecked
Brignardello Bark 1865 1868 Stranded Brignardello & Bro. Mazzini 543 sail San Francisco
Brilliant Two Masted Schooner 1872 Stranded
Mendocino Lumber
Company sail Mendocino
Brodie Oil screw 1931 1965 194 Orange
Brooklyn Single ender 1901 1930 Stranded Tufvesson, T. J. 333 Humboldt
Brother Jonathon Sidewheel Steamship 1851 1865 Grounded
California Steam
Navigation Co. De Wolfe, Samuel 220 feet 36 feet 750
400 HP walking
beam Del Norte
Brothers Scow 1890 1941 Foundered 54 South Channel Islands
Buenos Dias Lumber schooner 1867 Capsized sail Contra Costa
Bunting Mine sweeper 1942 Collision U.S. Navy
Burnea Dea Schooner 1851 Capsized Hughes sail Humboldt
Burns Destroyer 1976 U.S. Navy South Channel Islands
Burrfish Submarine 1969 U.S. Navy South Channel Islands
C A Drew Schooner 1872 Stranded sail Mendocino
C C Co. #26 Barge 1941 1961 111 Los Angeles
C D Murray 1888 Los Angeles
C H Merithew Two Masted Schooner 1875 1887 Parted lines Johnson, C. H. 84 feet 22.3 feet 95 sail Mendocino
C M Small Steamship 1846 1884 Snagged Yuba
C P Huestes Schooner 1862 1868 Capsized Peltz 57 sail Mendocino
C W Gunnel Schooner 1862 Stranded sail Mendocino
C W W #26 Scow 1943 1943 60 South Channel Islands
C-7742 Salmon trawler 1929 Stranded Bowers Marin
Caeser Burns Two Masted Schooner 1889 Ventura
Caleb Curtis Pilot boat 1867 Capsized sail San Francisco
California Two Masted Schooner 1869 1880 Wrecked 95.5 feet 28 feet 119 sail Mendocino
California 1883 Ventura
California #2 Two Masted Schooner 1883 1897 Wrecked Peterson 114 sail Mendocino
Californian Oil screw 1930 1932 Foundered 74 San Mateo
Camanche Steamboat 1853 Collision Contra Costa
Canonicus Brig 1853 Burned San Francisco
Capistrano 1911 Wrecked San Diego
Captain Oil screw 1931 1951 Foundered 14 San Diego
Caritas Yacht 1925 144.3 feet 25.5 feet 395 Del Norte
Carlota 1850 San Francisco
Carmel Steam schooner 1907 1931 San Francisco
Caroga Barge 1944 1953 Stranded 643 Sonoma
Caroline Sternwheel Steamboat 1868 1917 Burned 182 Marin
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California State Lands Commission Shipwreck Information
Ship's Name Type Year Built Year Sunk Cause Owner Captain Length Beam Tonnage Engine County
Caroline Two Masted Schooner 1863 Wrecked Johnson 80 sail Mendocino
Caroline Amelia Three Masted Bark 1850 Grounded Dresher sail San Francisco
Caroline E Foote 1871 Ventura
Caroline Medan Two Masted Schooner 1887 Wrecked Hanson 73 sail Mendocino
Carrie Heywood Two Masted Schooner Wrecked Mendocino
Carrier Pigeon Clipper 1852 1853 Grounded Doane, Azariah 844 sail San Mateo
Casco Steam schooner 1906 1913 Stranded 533 San Luis Obispo
Casino Bark 1901 1935 explosion and fire 216 feet 43 feet 1274 sail Los Angeles
Caspar Steam schooner 1887 1897
Grounded during
gale Caspar Lumber Co. Anfindsen 132.5 feet 33 feet 300 250 ihp Mendocino
Celia Steam schooner 1884 1906 Stranded Newman 173 Monterey
Centennial Barge 1930 Burned 1286 Los Angeles
Centennial Schooner 1876 1877 Capsized Cole, Joseph sail Del Norte
Centennial San Francisco
Centennial Steamship 1876 1886 Grounded
California Steam
Navigation Co. Lind, Frank 155 feet 45 feet 560 Contra Costa
CG 256 Cutter 1933 Stranded U.S. Coast Guard Nichol, M. E. 75 feet Monterey
Challenge Three Masted Schooner 1877 Wrecked Menzies sail San Luis Obispo
Champion Two Masted Schooner 1867 1887 Stranded Larsen 42 sail Mendocino
Champlain Downeaster 1874 1875 Stranded
W H Kinsman & Co.,
Boston, Mass. Merril, Reuben 216 feet 40 feet 1473 sail Farallon Islands
Charles and Edward Schooner 1858 Stranded St.Claire 50 sail Mendocino
Charles B Kennedy Barge 1878 1926 Wrecked 1074 Contra Costa
Charles Brown Barge 1904 1932 Stranded 72 Orange
Charles F Crocker Four Masted Bark 1890 1926 Foundered 860 sail South Channel Islands
Charles G White Steam schooner 1884 1884 Stranded 169 Mendocino
Charles Nelson Steam schooner 1913 Burned Humboldt
Charles T Winslow Two Masted Schooner 1885 Higgins & Collins sail Sonoma
Charlotte Schooner 1880 1899 Wrecked 67 feet 21 feet 48 sail Mendocino
Charlotte Schooner 1856 Stranded Owens sail Del Norte
Charlotte Two Masted Schooner 1861 1889 Wrecked Iverson's Lumber Company Larsen sail Mendocino
Chateau Palmer Ship 1856 Missed stays Bouteiller 800 sail San Francisco
Chauncy Destroyer 1923 Stranded U.S.Navy 314 feet 32 feet 1250 4 stack turbines Santa Barbara
Chehalis Steam schooner 1901 1933 Collision
Los Angeles & Long Beach
Dispatch Hansen 183 feet 663 Santa Barbara
Chetco Two Masted Schooner 1887 1918 Burned 103 Santa Barbara
Chicago Oil screw 1926 1943 Foundered 75 South Channel Islands
Chickasaw Steam screw 1942 1962 6131 North Channel Islands
Chico Steam screw 1890 1906 Stranded 362 Humboldt
Chilcat Steamship 1899 Wrecked 215 Humboldt
Chris C Oil screw 1927 1937 Foundered 60 Ventura
Christina Stevens Two Masted Schooner 1880 Wrecked sail Sonoma
City of Chester Steamship 1875 1888 Collision
Oregon Railroad Co.
(charter PCSS) Wallace, Thomas 205 feet 33 feet 1106 San Francisco
City of Columbia Steam screw 1896 Grounded 3616 San Mateo
City of Florence 1900 Los Angeles
City of Glendale Fishing schooner 1921 Arson San Mateo
City of New York Iron steamer 1875 1893 Grounded
Pacific Mail Steamship
Company Johnson, George (pilot) 339 feet 40 feet 3019
compound,6
boilers San Francisco
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California State Lands Commission Shipwreck Information
Ship's Name Type Year Built Year Sunk Cause Owner Captain Length Beam Tonnage Engine County
City of Peking Iron Steamer 1877 1911 Abandoned Bates and Chesebrough none 423 feet 48 feet 5080 2 vert. cmpd. San Francisco
City of Rio de Janeiro Iron steamer 1878 1901 Grounded
Pacific Mail Steamship
Company Ward, William 345 ft 39 ft 3548 San Francisco
City of San Raphael Sidewheel Steamboat 1924 1943 Wrecked 484 Contra Costa
City of Sausalito Oil screw 1936 1941 Burned 70 North Channel Islands
City of Sydney Iron Steamer 1875 1930 Abandoned William Manuel none 352 feet 40 feet 3016 cmpd. 1900hp San Francisco
Claus Spreckles Brig 1879 1888 Grounded
John D Spreckles and
Brothers Cousins 122.5 feet 31.8 feet 246.62 sail Marin
Cleone Steam screw 1901 1931 Sprung leak Madsen 288 Humboldt
Cleopatra 1941 Los Angeles
Clinton Sidewheel Steamboat 1854 1877 Collision North Pacific Coast RR Co. Lucky, Charles 194 steam San Francisco
Cochief Schooner 1889 Wrecked sail Mendocino
Coka 1937 South Channel Islands
Collaroy Four Masted Schooner 1889 Stranded sail Humboldt
Colleen Gas screw 1943 1959 Foundered 10 Humboldt
Colonel Baker Two Masted Scow Schooner 1864 1913 Stranded Friethy 75 feet 26 feet 83 Marin
Colonel Cross Sternwheel Steamboat 1846 1850 Wrecked 160
Columbia Steam schooner 1882 Stranded San Francisco
Columbia Two Masted Schooner 1865 1868 Wrecked Capt. Barstow Barstow 59 sail Mendocino
Columbia Steamship 1880 1907 Collision Doran, P. A. 1746 Humboldt
Columbia Steamship 1892 1896 Stranded
Pacific Mail Steamship
Company 3616 San Mateo
Columbia 1949 Wrecked San Francisco
Columbia Contract #41 Barge 1916 1941 Foundered 483 Los Angeles
Colusa Sternwheel Steamboat 1911 1932 Wrecked 795 Yolo
Colusa Steam barge 1868 Collision Solono
Comet Three Masted Schooner 1886 1911 Stranded 429 sail North Channel Islands
Commodore Steam screw 1868 Collision
Commodore Preble Sidewheel Steamboat 1844 1851 Grounded Ballard 282 Humboldt
Commodore Rogers Whaler 1837 Storm T & A Nye, of New Bedford Howland, Henry S. 298 sail Monterey
Confidence Pilot boat 1880 Grounded
Constantine Schooner 1862 Wrecked sail Mendocino
Continental Steamship 1877 Stranded Davis Humboldt
Continental 1930
Contra Costa Sidewheel Steamboat 1859 Boiler explosion walking beam
Coos Bay Freighter 1909 1927 Stranded Olson, B. W. 386 feet 53 feet 5149 Dual TE.3500hp San Francisco
Coos Bay Steam screw 1884 1914 Wrecked
Pacific Coast Steamship
Co. 544 Ventura
Coos Bay 1952 North Channel Islands
Coquille Two Masted Schooner 1883 1923 Abandoned 92.7 feet 29.5 feet 118 gasoline engine Mendocino
Cora Steamship 1879 Snagged San Joaquin
Cora Two Masted Schooner 1867 1874 Parted moorings Caspar Lumber Co. 155 sail Mendocino
Corinthian Gas screw 1892 1906 Stranded 94 Humboldt
Cornelius W Lawrence Revenue cutter 1848 1851 Storm U S Revenue Service Ottinger, Douglass 96.5 feet 24 feet 144 sail San Francisco
Cornwallis Bark 1852 Wrecked sail Humboldt
Corona Gas screw 1918 1924 Burned 104.3 feet 14.9 feet 79 3 shaft gasoline Sonoma
Corona Steam screw 1888 1907 Grounded 1492 Humboldt
Coronado Steam screw 1900 1917 Foundered Humboldt
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California State Lands Commission Shipwreck Information
Ship's Name Type Year Built Year Sunk Cause Owner Captain Length Beam Tonnage Engine County
Costa Rica Steam schooner 1873 Grounded San Francisco
Covina Gas screw 1902 1926 Burned 87 Solono
Coya Bark 1866 Grounded Paige sail San Mateo
Crab King Oil screw 1944 1958 Foundered 17 Humboldt
Craig #1 Scow 1923 1925 Wrecked 285 South Channel Islands
Crescent City Steam schooner 1906 1927 Stranded Rosengren 642 Santa Cruz
Crescent City Steam schooner 1882 1903 Stranded Payne 147.3 feet 21 feet 701 Mendocino
Crescent No. 2 Oil screw 1926 1958 Stranded 33 Humboldt
Cricket Sidewheel Steamboat 1863 1885 60 Los Angeles
Crimea Brig 1876 Stranded sail Ventura
Crimea Brig 1868 Collision sail Farallon Islands
Crovate 1923 Wrecked Santa Barbara
Crowden Law Iron ship 1885 Burned Peattie sail
Crowley #64 Barge 1913 1949 Foundered Crowley Enterprises 267 Los Angeles
Crown of England Steam screw 1891 1894 Grounded
chartered to John
Rosenfield & Co. Hamilton, James 297 feet 40.1 feet 1608 North Channel Islands
Crown Princess 1850 Grounded
Cuautemoc Gas screw 1916 1924 Stranded 79 Mendocino
Cuba Steam screw 1897 1923 Grounded
Pacific Mail Steamship
Company Holland, J. 308 feet 42 feet 3168 single TE North Channel Islands
Cuffeys Cove Two Masted Schooner 1861 Wrecked John S. Kimball sail Mendocino
Curacao Brig 1862 Stranded sail Mendocino
Curlew Brig 1875 Stranded sail Mendocino
Cypress Point Steam schooner 1934 Lost Humboldt
Czarina 1898 Collision
D C Haskins Schooner 1885 sail Sonoma
D C Murray 1889 Los Angeles
D W Tieyen Schooner 1878 sail Sonoma
Daisy Sternwheel Steamboat 1888
Daisy Matthews Steam schooner 1916 1940 Stranded Freeman Lumber Co. 933 Humboldt
Daisy Putnam Steamship 1913 1929 Grounded S.S.Freeman Yetting 201 feet 41 feet 1492 Humboldt
Daisy Rowe Two Masted Schooner 1879 1900 Wrecked Higgins & Collins 94.5 feet 29 feet 122 sail San Francisco
Danti Alighieri #2 Gas screw 1937 1938 Foundered 97
Danube Brigantine 1828 Stranded sail Los Angeles
Darfield 1954 Los Angeles
Dashaway Schooner 1863 sail Humboldt
Dauntless Humboldt
David and Nettie Two Masted Schooner 1875 1880 Wrecked 69 sail Mendocino
David C Meyer Steam screw 1920 1926 Stranded
McCormick Steamship
Company Danskanen, Hajalmar 272 feet 46 feet 2510 2 700hp TE Los Angeles
Davidson Schooner 1903 Wrecked sail Mendocino
Dawn Five Masted Schooner 1907 Grounded sail Humboldt
Dawn Oil screw 1927 1952 Foundered 12 Humboldt
Defender 1940 Los Angeles
Del Monte #3 Oil screw 1939 1950 Stranded 50 Mendocino
Del Norte Steam screw 1890 1917 Stranded Hobbs, Wall & Co. Hoffman 158 feet 32 feet 301 Mendocino
Del Norte Woodsman Del Norte
Del Ray Oil screw 1925 1930 Burned 14 Humboldt
Del Rio Oil screw 1935 1952 Burned 110 North Channel Islands
Delia Walker
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California State Lands Commission Shipwreck Information
Ship's Name Type Year Built Year Sunk Cause Owner Captain Length Beam Tonnage Engine County
Delphi Destroyer 1923 Stranded U.S.Navy 314 feet 32 feet 1250 4 stack turbines Santa Barbara
Despatch Steam schooner 1905 Burned San Francisco
Despatch #5 Gas screw 1913 1926 Stranded 59 San Diego
Detroit Gas screw 1919 1932 43 South Channel Islands
Diablo (Dyablo) Steam screw 1868 1873 Wrecked Panama Railroad Co. 1451 San Diego
Diamond Barge 1884
Diamond Steam screw 1920 1926 Collision 650 Orange
Diana 1948 San Diego
Diana Steamship 1858 1927 Explosion 104 Solono
Diana Oil screw 1926 1931 Burned 23 Humboldt
Discovery Oil screw 1936 1955 Burned 123 Los Angeles
Dixie 1954 South Channel Islands
Dolphin Gas screw 1918 1927 Burned 57 San Joaquin
Dolphin Steam tug 1890 Foundered San Francisco
Dominator Liberty ship 1944 1961 stranded Compania Naviera Papanikolpulos, Charitos 441 feet 57 feet 7176 Los Angeles
Don Leandro Two Masted Schooner 1885 Wrecked 86 Mendocino
Donna Maria (Donna May) Brig 1854 Grounded sail Mendocino
Dora Bluhm Three Masted Schooner 1883 1910 Stranded
Pacific States Trading
Company Johnson, Oscar 134 feet 33 feet 330 sail North Channel Islands
Dorothy Phillips 1941 San Diego
Dorothy Wintermote Steam screw 1918 1938 Foundered Olsen, O. J. 2010 Mendocino
Dot 1951 Capsized San Diego
Drumburton Four mast ship 1881 1904 Stranded Capt. John Barneson Thomas 267 feet 40 feet 1881 sail San Francisco
Dublin Bark 1839 1882 Stranded Moloney 139 feet 30.8 feet 706.06 sail San Francisco
Dunkerque Five Masted Schooner 1918 1918 Wrecked French government 260 feet 3000 2 aux Trip Exp. Mendocino
Duxberry 1849 Grounded Marin
E A Bryan Victory ship 1944 1944 Explosion U.S. Navy 7212 Contra Costa
E Antoni 1938 Wrecked Marin
Eagle Gas screw 1927 1937 Burned 77 Los Angeles
Eagle Oil screw 1932 Los Angeles
Eagle 1863 Stranded sail Sonoma
Echo Sloop 1879 Foundered sail San Mateo
Edith Steam screw 1849 Grounded U.S. Navy McCormick, Lt. James 120 feet 26 feet 400 Santa Barbara
Edith Sternwheel Steamboat 1884 Wrecked Humboldt
Edwin May Bark 1929 Burned sail Alameda
Efina Kuyne Galliot 1862 Wrecked San Mateo
Eight Brothers Motor vessel 1937 Wrecked Sonoma
Einora Schooner 1872 Stranded sail Orange
El Capitan 1952
El Commodore Oil screw 1935 1946 Stranded 117 Santa Barbara
El Dorado 1853 Marin
El Dorado 1940 San Joaquin
El Dorado Sidewheel Steamboat 1851 Marin
El Padre Oil screw 1951 Los Angeles
El Rey Kelp harvester 1946 1987 Scuttled Cal Dept Fish and Game 100 San Diego
Electra Schooner 1865 1894 Parted cables Wilson, C. sail San Luis Obispo
Eliza Fishing sloop 1871 Grounded 10.2 sail San Francisco
Eliza Miller Two Masted Schooner 1880 Wrecked sail Mendocino
Eliza Thornton 1856 Stranded sail Santa Barbara
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Ship's Name Type Year Built Year Sunk Cause Owner Captain Length Beam Tonnage Engine County
Eliza Walker Schooner 1867 Lost sail Humboldt
Elizabeth Brig 1848 Stranded
Kimball & Pringree, of
Hawaii
Cooper, Juan Bautistia
Rogers 182 sail Santa Barbara
Elizabeth Ship 1882 1891 Stranded Colcord 232 feet 42 feet 1866 sail Marin
Elizabeth 1847 Santa Barbara
Elizabeth Buckley Ship 1864 Stranded sail Mendocino
Elko Two Masted Scow Schooner 1868 1881 Stranded Captain Madsen 96.5 feet 32 feet 148 sail San Francisco
Ella Adelia Two Masted Schooner 1864 1883 Wrecked 75.5 feet 24.5 feet 54 sail Mendocino
Ella Florence Schooner 1868 Stranded sail Mendocino
Ella Florence Two Masted Schooner 1872 Parted moorings
Mendocino Lumber
Company 67 sail Mendocino
Ellen Sidewheel ferry 1883 1927 Burned 135 feet Solono
Ellen Steamship 1881 Snagged
Ellen Steamship 1874 struck piling Davis and associates Davis, Charles
Ellen Adelia Two Masted Schooner 1872 Cargo shifted Olsen sail Sonoma
Ellen Burke Scow schooner 1860 Contra Costa
Ellen F Salvage ship 1936 Broke up San Francisco
Ellen Florence Two Masted Schooner 1876 Wrecked sail Mendocino
Ellen H Wood Brig 1872 Wrecked sail Sonoma
Elnorah Schooner 1897 Collision sail
Elnorah Schooner 1897 Collision Humboldt
Elsie #1 Barge 1943 1951 Foundered 79 Orange
Elsie II Barge 1944 1956 85 Orange
Elsie Iversen Two Masted Schooner 1872 Wrecked Iverson's Lumber Company Jensen 62 sail Mendocino
Elsie Iverson 1887 1888 Stranded Peterson 94 feet 27 feet 122 Marin
Elsie Iverson #2 Two Masted Schooner 1884 1886 Wrecked Iverson and Johnson Beck 77 sail Mendocino
Elsie T Oil screw 1944 1958 Foundered 149 Humboldt
Elvenia Ship 1889 Stranded sail Del Norte
Elvenia Two Masted Schooner 1872 1897 Stranded Caspar Lumber Co. Johnson 98 feet 30 feet 148 sail Mendocino
Emidio Tanker 1921 1941 Torpedoed 6912 Humboldt
Emily F Bichard Gas screw 1867 1927 Wrecked 52
Emily Franssen Two Masted Schooner 1879 Stranded Christiansen 69 sail Mendocino
Emily Stevens Two Masted Schooner 1879 1882 Capsized Beadle Steamship Co. 98 sail Mendocino
Emma Adelia Schooner 1870 Burned sail Solono
Emperor Oil screw 1927 1932 Foundered 56 South Channel Islands
Empire 1931 South Channel Islands
Empress Gas screw 1906 1935 39 South Channel Islands
Empress 1942 South Channel Islands
Ensign Four Masted Schooner 1904 1909 Stranded 618 sail Santa Barbara
Equator Oil screw 1949 1949
Columbia River Packers
Assoc. 93 feet 26.5 feet 238 Enterprise diesel North Channel Islands
Erial 1889 Sonoma
Erin's Star Bark 1880 Stranded 203 feet 38 feet 1457 sail Marin
Erskine M Phelps Bark 1896 2998 sail Los Angeles
Escambia Steam screw bark 1879 1882 Overloaded Purvis 291 feet 37 feet 210 hp San Francisco
Escola 1926 Wrecked in storm Mendocino
Esmeraldo Gas screw 1918 1943 Wrecked 92 Contra Costa
Esparta 1952 Los Angeles
Esperanza Two Masted Schooner 1877 1892 Grounded 46.2 feet 15.8 feet 15.11 sail Marin
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Ship's Name Type Year Built Year Sunk Cause Owner Captain Length Beam Tonnage Engine County
Esperia #3 Oil screw 1944 1952 Foundered 110 Los Angeles
Esther Buhne Schooner 1887 1927 Stranded 287 Orange
Eureka Three Masted Barkentine 1868 1902 Wrecked Charles Nelson Co. Shou 134.3 feet 33 feet 295 sail San Mateo
Eureka Steam schooner 1920 1926 Explosion Orsland, Oscar 1700 Humboldt
Eureka Two Masted Steam Schooner 1900 1915 Capsized
North Pacific Steamship
Company 142.5 feet 26 feet 484
Dbl.compound,27
51 hp San Francisco
European 1861 Wrecked Marin
Eustace Schooner 1881 Explosion Hornsby sail San Francisco
Evening Star Two Masted Schooner 1880 Wrecked sail Marin
Everett Steam screw 1920 1926 Burned
McCormick Steamship
Company 236 feet 1751 Humboldt
Exact Schooner 1859 Wrecked sail Del Norte
Exchange Barge 1868 1876 storm George W. Hooper Hunt, George 130.4 San Francisco
Explorer 1929 Grounded Los Angeles
Express Oil screw 1927 1942 Foundered 53 Santa Cruz
F #1 Submarine 1911 1917 Collision U.S. Navy
Montgomery, Lt. Alfred
E. 143 feet 16 feet 330 diesel-electric San Diego
F A Douty Steam screw 1904 1944 Foundered 227
F M Smith River steamer 1895 1909 Burned 295 Contra Costa
F S C #1 Barge 1925 1958 62 Los Angeles
F W Bailey Ship 1854 1863 Grounded C Cushing & Company Dyer, Lemuel P. 160 feet 33.3 feet 711 sail San Francisco
F-2 Hellcat Aircraft 1940 U.S.Navy San Diego
Fairy Queen Two Masted Schooner 1869 1885
Stranded during
storm 99 sail Mendocino
Falcon 1945 Los Angeles
Falkland Four Masted Bark 1901 Capsized Palace Line sail South Channel Islands
Fallmouth Schooner 1874 Abandoned sail Monterey
Fama Schooner 1846 Stranded Alpheus Thompson sail Santa Barbara
Fannie Pilot boat 1852 Wrecked Mendocino
Fannie A Hyde Two Masted Schooner 1886 Wrecked Capts. Jenson & Petersen 90 sail Mendocino
Fannie Adele Three Masted Schooner 1883 1904 Explosion 234 sail San Francisco
Fannie Jane Schooner 1872 Stranded sail Mendocino
Fanny 1851 Capsized San Diego
Fanny Piper Schooner 1871 Stranded sail Sonoma
Far West Two Masted Schooner 1863 Stranded in gale sail Mendocino
Fawn Sloop 1891 sail South Channel Islands
Fawn Steamship 1851 Boiler explosion van Gaspen Sacramento
Fay #4 Sidewheel Steamboat 1912 1920 Burned 309
Fernstream Brig 1952 Collision Kristensen 416 feet 4980 San Francisco
Fideliter Steam schooner 1860 1876 Dragged Moorings
Pacific Coast Steamship
Co. von Helms 175 Mendocino
Fidelity Gas screw 1885 1932 Burned 56
Fidelity Three Masted Schooner 1889 Capsized Christopherson sail Humboldt
Finita 1954 Collision San Diego
Five Brothers 1900 Wrecked Marin
Flavel Steam schooner 1917 1923 Stranded Johnson, H. 967 Monterey
Flora Sloop 1849 Storm Reeves, S. C. sail
Flora Sternwheel Steamboat 1885 1932 Burned 185 Yolo
Florence Schooner 1870 Stranded Josslyn sail Mendocino
Flying Dragon Clipper 1853 1862 Grounded Watson, Horace H. 1127 sail San Francisco
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Ship's Name Type Year Built Year Sunk Cause Owner Captain Length Beam Tonnage Engine County
Flying Mist Schooner 1867 sail Mendocino
Forester Four Masted Schooner 1900 1935 Stranded 184 feet 38.6 feet 663 sail Contra Costa
Forty Fathoms 1949 Monterey
Foss #125 Scow 1919 1958 Foss Launch & Tug Co. 130 feet 38 feet 432 none Orange
Fourth of July Two Masted Schooner 1870 1878 grounded in storm Josiah Smith Smith, Josiah 49.95 sail Marin
Fox Schooner 1888 1930 343 sail Orange
Frances Schooner 1879 Stranded 42 feet 17 feet 16 sail Marin
Francis Helen Schooner 1863 Stranded sail Mendocino
Francisca Brig 1847 Stranded McClure sail Santa Barbara
Francois Coppee Bark 1900 1903 Grounded Inyre 277 feet 29 feet 1728 sail Marin
Franconia Downeaster 1874 1881 Stranded Otis 208 feet 41 feet 1461 sail Farallon Islands
Frank H Buck Tanker 1913 1937 Collision Union Oil Company Kelly, R. W. 408 feet 55.5 feet 6076 San Francisco
Frank Jones Three Masted Ship 1874 1877 Stranded Nickles, James N. 203 feet 40 feet 1452 sail San Francisco
Frank Lawrence Gas screw 1886 1946 Foundered 58 Monterey
Fred Ball #4 Gas screw 1916 1932 Burned 93 San Joaquin
Frederick Williams Schooner 1870 Stranded sail Solono
Free Trade Two Masted Schooner 1869 1878 Stranded Boie sail Marin
Free Trade Two Masted Schooner 1869 1881 Wrecked Jensen 86.5 feet 26.3 feet 87 sail Mendocino
Frej 1947 Burned
Friedeberg Ship 1881 sail Alameda
Frolic Brig 1844 1850 Stranded
Augustine Heard and
Company Faucon, Edward Horatio 88 feet 24 feet 212 sail Mendocino
Fuller Destroyer 1923 Stranded U.S.Navy 314 feet 32 feet 1250 4 stack turbines Santa Barbara
Fullerton Barkentine 1902 1927 1554 sail Los Angeles
G C Lindauer Steam screw 1901 1921 Wrecked 453 Monterey
G Marconi Oil screw 1928 1931 Burned 100 Ventura
G W Prescott Schooner 1879 Wrecked sail North Channel Islands
Galilee Schooner 1891 1935 132.5 feet 35.5 feet 354 Sail Marin
Galileo 1853 Foundered North Channel Islands
Galveston Brig 1863 Stranded sail Mendocino
Garcia Los Angeles
Gardiner City Bark 1904 Stranded sail Los Angeles
Garland Fishing boat Santa Barbara
Garrison Oil screw 1945 1948 Wrecked 59 Del Norte
General Cushing Ship 1856 1858 Grounded
Dow,Varina,Hale,Davis and
Morss Varina, Nicholas 150 feet 31.5 feet 681 sail San Francisco
General Jessup Sidewheel Steamboat 1854 1859 Explosion Johnson 104 17 50 Imperial
General Lane Whaling schooner 1855 Los Angeles
General Ord Two Masted Schooner 1869 1889 Stranded Gus Scheultz Knudsen 87.5 feet 25 feet 93 sail Mendocino
Genevieve H II Oil screw 1937 1956 112 South Channel Islands
George E Billings Five Masted Schooner 1903 1941 Wrecked 224 feet 1260 sail Los Angeles
George Henrick Schooner 1871 Stranded sail Sonoma
George Loomis Steam schooner 1895 1918 Foundered 692 Humboldt
George Louis Two Masted Schooner 1863 1882 Grounded Erickson 60.7 feet 21.3 feet 40 sail San Francisco
George W Hind Bark 1919 1936 Foundered 1389 San Diego
George Washington 1849 1849 Snagged Sacramento
Georgene M fishing boat 1953 Wrecked diesel Mendocino
Georgia (Georgiana) Sidewheel Steamboat 1850 1855 Boiler explosion Wagner and Behler Thompson, J. 75 feet 30 Napa
Georgia R Higgins Two Masted Schooner 1875 1887 Stranded Samuelson 95 sail Mendocino
Georgia Straits Tug Los Angeles
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Ship's Name Type Year Built Year Sunk Cause Owner Captain Length Beam Tonnage Engine County
Georgina Four Masted Bark 1901 1935 Stranded 998 sail Los Angeles
Georgina Barge 1902 1966 96 Los Angeles
Georgina Gas screw 1920 1931 38 Santa Barbara
Gifford Four Masted Steel Bark 1892 1903 Grounded J J Moore and Co. Michie, Robert 282 feet 43 feet 2245 sail San Mateo
Gina Reed Schooner 1861 Stranded sail Sonoma
Gipsy Steam screw 1868 1905 Grounded
Pacific Coast Steamship
Co. Boyd, Thomas 239 Monterey
Gipsy Girl Oil screw 1921 1945 56 Los Angeles
Girlie Mahoney Steam schooner 1904 1919 Dragged anchor Hansen 141 feet 34 feet 382 Mendocino
Gleaner 1906 Los Angeles
Glen Mayne Barge 1918 1939 Foundered 431 San Diego
Glenarm Schooner 1864 1875 Parted lines Thomas Pollard Nelson, P.B. sail Mendocino
Glendale Schooner 1888 1930 296 sail San Diego
Glouchester Bark 1850 Capsized
Godle Geoch Schooner 1856 Wrecked sail Del Norte
Gold Sternwheel Steamboat 1883 1920 Burned 324 Sonoma
Gold Hunter Steamship 1850 Collision
Gold Hunter Sidewheel Steamboat 1870 Stranded Humboldt
Golden City Oil screw 1920 1927 Collision
Golden Fleece Clipper 1852 1854
Missed stays,
grounded Freeman 173 feet 35 feet 968 sail San Francisco
Golden Gate Schooner 1873 Parted cable sail San Luis Obispo
Golden Gate Oil screw 1944 1952 Burned 120 North Channel Islands
Golden Gate Ship 1929 Burned Alameda
Golden Gate Schooner 1885 Wrecked sail Mendocino
Golden Gate Two Masted Schooner 1874 1899 Wrecked Rasmussen 98 sail Mendocino
Golden Rule Schooner 1874 Collision sail San Francisco
Golden Rule Two Masted Schooner 1860 1882 Parted moorings Capt. Hendrix Kuhn 72 sail Mendocino
Golden Rule #2 Two Masted Schooner 1866 1878 Grounded Iverson, Beck 118 sail Mendocino
Golden Shore Schooner 1899 1922 Foundered 699 sail Contra Costa
Golden Shore Steam screw 1928 Wrecked Contra Costa
Golden State Schooner 1913 1937 570 sail Los Angeles
Golden State Two Masted Schooner 1865 Storm sail Mendocino
Golden West 1938 Wrecked San Joaquin
Golden West #2 Gas screw 1918 1922 Burned 55 Humboldt
Goldenhorn Four Masted Bark 1883 1892 Stranded DeWolf Dunn 268.6 feet 40.2 feet 1842 sail North Channel Islands
Goliah Schooner 1879 Foundered sail Solono
Gosford steel hulled Bark 1892 1893 fire and beaching Marhem 282 feet 42 feet 2251 sail Santa Barbara
Gosling 1958 Los Angeles
Governor Blaisdel Steamship Storm
Governor Markham Oil screw 1892 1957 79 San Diego
Governor Stanford Sidewheel Steamboat 1884 Storm
Grace Barton Sternwheel Steamboat 1890 1916 Burned Alden Bros. 195 Solono
Gracie Belle Richardson #1 Schooner Stranded sail Sonoma
Gracie Belle Richardson #2 Schooner Stranded Richardson sail Sonoma
Granada Sidewheel Steamboat 1855 1860 Grounded
U S Mail Steamship
Company 228 feet 31 feet 1058
Vert.Beam
Steamer San Francisco
Granger Schooner 1875 1908 Foundered 59 sail San Mateo
Gratia Two Masted Steel Bark 1881 1933 Wrecked 260 feet 38 feet 1582 sail Los Angeles
Grays Harbor Steam schooner 1907 1931 172 feet 38 feet 659 San Francisco
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Ship's Name Type Year Built Year Sunk Cause Owner Captain Length Beam Tonnage Engine County
Great Western 1882 Burned Alameda
Greenland #4 Oil screw 1929 1934 Stranded San Francisco
Gregory Destroyer escort 1944 1972 demolition exercises U.S. Navy 376 feet 30 feet 2050 South Channel Islands
Gualala Schooner 1888 Stranded sail Ventura
Guillia Yacht 1884 1925 Storm
Gussie Klose Two Masted Schooner 1876 1893 Wrecked 83 feet 26 feet 94 sail Mendocino
Gypsy Q 1955 Wrecked North Channel Islands
H Bendel Two Masted Scow Schooner 1874 1888 Stranded Means 71.5 feet 25.5 feet 73 sail Mendocino
H C Almy Two Masted Schooner 1855 1879 dragged anchor Capt. Mullett Mullett 36 feet 13 feet 12.71 sail Marin
H Caroline 1874 Wrecked Marin
H F Harper 1922 Wrecked Mendocino
H H Briggs Two Masted Schooner 1887 Wrecked Mendocino
H H Knapp Schooner 1874 1887 storm George McPhee Halback, P. E. 98.5 feet 25.6 feet 77 sail Mendocino
H L Rutgers Bark 1865 1868 Grounded Adams and Blinn Co. Marston 167 feet 36.5 feet 405 sail Marin
H L Tiernan Schooner 1882
missed
stays,grounded 142.76 sail San Francisco
H L Tiernan Two Masted Schooner 1867 1869 Parted moorings H. L. Tiernan Berry 90 feet 27.5 feet 153 sail Mendocino
H M Adams Oil screw 1913 1945 Stranded 58 San Luis Obispo
H M Storey Steam screw Los Angeles
H T Clay Schooner 1862 Stranded Mendocino
Haddingtonshire Bark 1884 1885 Grounded Columbian Grain Fleet Frazier 215 feet 35 feet 1119 sail Marin
Halcyon Los Angeles
Halcyon Clipper brig 1858 1859
driven ashore by
storm Charles McLean (3/4) Wood, George A. sail Mendocino
Hamlet 1878
Hanalei Steam schooner 1901 1914 Grounded Carey 174.5 feet 36 feet 666 Marin
Hannah Louise Schooner 1872 Capsized sail Sonoma
Hannah M Bourne 1868 Wrecked Marin
Hannah Madison Two Masted Schooner 1876 1885 134 sail Mendocino
Harlech Castle Bark 1895 1905 Grounded 1802 sail San Luis Obispo
Harlech Castle Bark 1869 Grounded sail San Luis Obispo
Harmony 1940 Wrecked Marin
Harriet Two Masted Schooner 1855 Parted lines Haley sail Mendocino
Harry 1904 Storm Contra Costa
Hartford Bark 1864 sail Humboldt
Hartley Revenue tender 1874 1941 Old age San Francisco
Hartwood Steam schooner 1916 1929 Grounded Hartwood Lumber Co. Enstrom 199 feet 42 feet 946 Marin
Harvard Steam liner 1906 1931 Grounded
Los Angeles Steamship
Company Hillsinger 403 51 3737 3 Parsons turbines Santa Barbara
Hattie D. Gas screw 1943 1964 Foundered 141 Humboldt
Hayes 1869 Wrecked Marin
Hector sloop 1853 1878 capsized G. Chevalier Evan, William 16.2 sail
Helen Two Masted Schooner 1864 1865 Stranded Capt. Lendil Lendil 121 sail Mendocino
Helen Hensley Sternwheel Steamboat 1853 1854 Boiler explosion San Francisco
Helen Kimball Two Masted Schooner 1881 1882 Wrecked John S. Kimball Heligsen 112 feet 31 feet 192 sail Mendocino
Helen P Drew Fish reduction ship 1950 Wrecked Alameda
Helen W Almy Bark 1859 1898 Capsized K C Eldridge Hogan, William J. 117 feet 29 feet sail San Francisco
Helena Bark 1841 1849 Grounded 598 Marin
Hellespont Ship 1856 1868 Grounded Soule 868 sail San Mateo
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Ship's Name Type Year Built Year Sunk Cause Owner Captain Length Beam Tonnage Engine County
Henrietta Schooner 1868 Stranded 64 sail Marin
Henrietta Steam screw 1898 1927 Burned 53 Marin
Henriette Two Masted Schooner 1879 Grounded sail Marin
Henry Bergh Liberty ship 1943 1944 Stranded U.S. Navy Chambers 441.5 feet 57 feet 7176
Triple expansion
type Farallon Islands
Herald Sidewheel Steamboat 1878 1912 Fire Central Pacific Co.
Crockett, Robert
Lockwood Alameda
Hermione Bark 1857 Storm Gilroy 40 feet 259 sail Humboldt
High Seas Purse seiner 1945 1970 Joe Goulart Goulart, Joe 128 feet 392 San Diego
Hogan Destroyer 1919 1945 bombing target U.S. Navy 314 31 San Diego
Home 1852 Stranded Humboldt
Honauwar Ship 1889 Burned sail Contra Costa
Hoosier 1853
Hope Gas screw 1914 1917 Wrecked 66 San Joaquin
Hopestill Oil screw 1916 1949 Stranded Santa Barbara
Horace Templeton 1920 Parted moorings Mendocino
Horizon Oil screw 1926 1932 Burned 69 Los Angeles
Hornbill Mine sweeper 1942 Collision U.S. Navy
Howard Olson Lumber schooner 1956 collision Oliver J Olson Co. 253 feet 2477 Monterey
Huichica Schooner 1871 Stranded sail Sonoma
Humanity 1939 Wrecked Ventura
Humble SM-1 Drilling barge 1942 1961 Foundered Global Marine 193 feet 34 feet 735 Santa Barbara
Humboldt Drill ship Santa Barbara
Humboldt 1895 Stranded Humboldt
Humboldt Two Masted Schooner 1874 1885 Parted lines in storm John S. Kimball 138 sail Mendocino
Hwa Tung 1946 Los Angeles
Hyack Bark 1863 Grounded sail Humboldt
Ida A Gas schooner 1905 Stranded 60 Marin
Ida Florence Two Masted Schooner 1869 1890 Parted cables Peterson 67.5 feet 23.5 feet 56 sail Mendocino
Ida May Gas screw 1908 1930 Stranded 62 Monterey
Ida McKay Three Masted Schooner 1880 1912 Abandoned 187 sail Humboldt
Idaho (Y P 198) Gas screw 1907 1943 Wrecked 22 San Diego
Ideal Fishing launch 1928 Wrecked Peters Marin
Idle Ours 1943 South Channel Islands
Independence Sloop 1868 Collision sail Farallon Islands
Independence Aircraft carrier 1943 1951 sunk as target U.S. Navy 622 feet 71.5 feet 11,000 steam San Francisco
Indiana Ship 1876 1936 Stranded 1487 sail Los Angeles
Indiana Harbor Steam schooner 1920 1927 Grounded Anderson 2612 Humboldt
Infallable Oil screw 1936 1944 Wrecked 118 Santa Cruz
International #3 1938 Wrecked Humboldt
International I Barge 1916 1918 Stranded 72 none North Channel Islands
Invincible Schooner 1854 Wrecked sail Mendocino
Ioannis G Kulukundis Liberty ship 1944 1949 Stranded Santa Barbara
Iolanda Steam screw 1905 1923 Stranded 53 San Mateo
Iowan 1941 Santa Barbara
Irene Barge 1900 1937 772 Los Angeles
Irene Schooner 1900 1929 Burned 722 sail Los Angeles
Irene Oil screw 1927 1962 Storm 47 Del Norte
Irma Two Masted Schooner 1887 Storm sail Mendocino
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Ship's Name Type Year Built Year Sunk Cause Owner Captain Length Beam Tonnage Engine County
Isabelita Hyne Clipper bark 1848 1856 Stranded Nye Bros, of Canton Calhoun 350 sail San Mateo
Isabella Ebbetta Two Masted Schooner 1858 Wrecked Redfield sail Mendocino
Isca 1863 Stranded
Isleton Steamship 1909 Burned
Issac Jeanes Bark 1854 1876 Wrecked 157 feet 35 feet 814 sail San Francisco
Issac Reed Barge 1875 1924 Foundered 199 feet 40 feet 1491 none Sonoma
Ituna Steam screw 1886 1920 Foundered 201 Marin
Iwanowna Bark 1858 Wrecked Butler sail Humboldt
J B Brown Brig 1857 Stranded Miller sail Mendocino
J B Stetson Steam schooner 1905 1934 Stranded William Gissler Jr. Hubner, F. W. 837 Monterey
J Bragdon 1853 Collision Solono
J C Condon Schooner 1886 Collision sail Marin
J C Freese #7 Barge 1930 1951 Foundered 389 none
J D Loop #1 Barge 1911 1928 Foundered 58 San Diego
J D Peters 1898 Collision
J D Rice Brig 1867 Stranded Garcia sail Los Angeles
J E Haskins Schooner 1874 Overloaded sail Marin
J E Murdock Schooner 1864 Stranded sail Mendocino
J E Reese Two Masted Schooner 1874 Capsized sail Marin
J Eppinger 1901 Wrecked Sonoma
J Eppinger Two Masted Schooner 1887 1898 Collision 112 sail Marin
J Eppinger #1 Two Masted Schooner 1885 1887 Parted lines Casperson 63 sail Mendocino
J F Lunt Two Masted Schooner 1878
Driven ashore by
storm Mendocino
J F West Schooner 1898 Wrecked sail North Channel Islands
J J Fransen Two Masted Schooner 1867 1869 Parted moorings Jensen 120 sail Mendocino
J J Loggie Steam schooner 1908 1912 Grounded 404 Santa Barbara
J M Coleman Three Masted Schooner 1888 1905 Stranded 463 sail North Channel Islands
J M Coleman Schooner 1888 1905 464 sail North Channel Islands
J M Ryerson Schooner 1858 Collision sail Humboldt
J Mora Moss Schooner 1874 Capsized sail Sonoma
J P Haven Schooner 1878 Foundered sail Sonoma
J R Whiting Two Masted Schooner 1865 disappeared Eugene Brown Brown, A. sail Mendocino
J S Cabot Brig 1860
Dragged Anchor,
Capsized Gage sail Mendocino
J S Higgins Steam schooner 1908 1919 Stranded 392 Mendocino
J Sarkie Bark 1851 Grounded sail San Mateo
J W Hall Schooner 1881 Parted moorings sail Del Norte
J W Seaver Bark 1859 1887 Grounded Robertson, Robert 230 sail San Mateo
Jacinto Sternwheel Steamboat 1889 1932 Burned 235 Yolo
Jack Hays Sloop 1858 Stranded Mendocino
Jacob Luckenbach Freighter 1944 1953 Collision Luckenbach Steamship Co. Bordeaux 468.5 feet 69.6 feet 7869 steam turbine
James A Garfield Three Masted Schooner 1904 Stranded sail San Francisco
James F McKenna Scow 1960 Los Angeles
James Higgins 1916 Ventura
James Rolph Ship 1884 1938 Burned 227 feet sail Contra Costa
James Rolph Four Masted Schooner 1899 1910 Stranded 169 feet 37.9 feet 586 sail San Mateo
James Rolph Jr. Schooner 1929 Burned sail Alameda
James Townsend Three Masted Schooner 1868 1895 Parted Tow Jensen 107 feet 29 feet 168 sail Mendocino
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Ship's Name Type Year Built Year Sunk Cause Owner Captain Length Beam Tonnage Engine County
Jane Ship 1851 sail Humboldt
Jane L Stanford Four Masted Bark 1892 1929 Collision 970 North Channel Islands
Janette Schooner 1878 Capsized sail San Francisco
Jaqua Schooner 1888 Struck reef sail Mendocino
Jeanellen Oil screw 1947 1962 Storm 25 Humboldt
Jennie Osborne Ship 1878 Stranded sail Marin
Jenny Ford Three Masted Barkentine 1854 1864
Missed
stays,grounded Pope and Talbot Lumber 133.4 feet 30.3 feet 396 sail San Francisco
Jenny Lind Ship 1858 Grounded sail
Jenus Gas screw 1925 1954 Foundered 8 Humboldt
Jewel Steam schooner 1888 1899 Grounded Caspar Lumber Co. Madsen 265 Mendocino
Joe Junior Oil screw 1926 1954 Lost 30 Humboldt
Johanna Two Masted Schooner 1877 Stranded Isigkeit sail Mendocino
Johanna Heinrick Bark 1880 Abandoned sail
Johanna M Brock Lumber drougher 1876 1879 Capsized Humboldt
Johanna Smith Steam screw 1917 1932 Burned Blazer and Turner 257 feet 50 feet 1844 Los Angeles
Johanna Smith Steam screw 1890 1935 Burned 336 feet 43 feet 3648 Orange
John Gas screw 1919 1928 Burned 250 San Joaquin
John A. gas screw launch 1908 1911 Collision Harry Johnson Wagner, Elmer 1 gasoline Alameda
John and Samuel Two Masted Schooner 1885 Wrecked sail Mendocino
John C Butler Destroyer escort 1970 Used as target U.S. Navy South Channel Islands
John Clifford Brig 1852 Stranded Leming sail Humboldt
John F Shafroth freighter 1964 scuttled U.S. Army
John H Marion 1946 Los Angeles
John Hancock Ship 1887 Waterlogged 143 feet 26 feet Humboldt
John McCullough Two Masted Schooner 1873 1893 parted lines contract to L Olson of SF Hanson 75.5 feet 24 feet 72 sail Mendocino
John Stillson Schooner 1878
Struck sunken
vessel sail
Johnnie Boy Oil screw 1937 1950 Burned 85 Orange
Jorie 1943 Los Angeles
Joseph Schooner 1880 Stranded 66 sail Sonoma
Joseph S Spinney 1874 1892 Grounded Curling 1968 sail Sonoma
Josephine 1832 Richardson, William A. sail South Channel Islands
Josephine Wilcutt Two Masted Schooner 1860 1872 Stranded
Mendocino Lumber
Company 80 feet 26 feet 86.04 San Francisco
Joyce Lee Green Gas screw 1946 1951 Burned 16 Humboldt
Juanita 1947 Monterey
Judson Two Masted Schooner 1858 Wrecked sail Mendocino
Jugo Slavia Oil screw 1928 1940 Foundered San Mateo
Julia Sidewheel oil steamer 1870 1888 Explosion Solono
Julia Brown Schooner 1879 Stranded Santa Cruz
Julia Castner Three Masted Bark 1858 1859 Capsized
W. & J. Somers, S. & J.
Castner 142 feet 29 feet 509 sail San Francisco
Julius Pringle 1863 Monterey
Junta Oil screw 1919 1937 Stranded 32 Humboldt
Kalorama Steam schooner 1876 Ventura
Kaluna Schooner 1867 Foundered Whitney sail Humboldt
Kate and Anna 1902 South Channel Islands
Kate Blakiston Schooner 1865 Capsized sail Sacramento
Katherine Donovan Steam screw 1913 1941 Grounded 933 Humboldt
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Ship's Name Type Year Built Year Sunk Cause Owner Captain Length Beam Tonnage Engine County
Katie Flickinger Barkentine 1876 1905 Stranded 472 sail Los Angeles
Katinka 1939 South Channel Islands
Kelpie Schooner 1926 sail San Diego
Kennebec 1883 1887 Storm Ford 2000 sail Los Angeles
King Philip Medium clipper 1856 1878 Stranded Pope and Talbot Lumber Keller, A. W. 182 feet 36 feet 1194 sail San Francisco
Kingfisher 1938 Wrecked Humboldt
Kingsbury Brig 1855 Monster wave 30 feet 195 sail Mendocino
Kitka 1937 U.S. Navy South Channel Islands
Kitty Stevens #2 Two Masted Schooner 1868 1883 Wrecked Higgins & Collins Wilson, I. 130 sail Mendocino
Klamath Steam schooner 1910 1921 Grounded in storm Jamieson, Thomas 1038 Sonoma
Kohala Barkintine 1901 1940 194.8 feet 40 feet 891 sail South Channel Islands
Koloa Brig 1876 sail Los Angeles
Kona Barge 1969 1979 Parted tow Crowley Maritime Corp. Maddux, John 336 feet 98 feet 5825 none Marin
Kopco Star Oil screw 1952 1963 60 Ventura
L C Lane Schooner 1868 Collision sail Mendocino
L D Handley Two Masted Schooner Wrecked Sorenson sail
L Padre 1956 Los Angeles
L R Whitney Schooner 1875 Wrecked sail Mendocino
L S M 455 Landing craft 1956 U.S. Navy South Channel Islands
La Cresentia 1935 Wrecked San Luis Obispo
La Feliz coastal freighter 1904 1924 Wrecked
Ed Linder, of San
Francisco Eliasen, John 72 feet 102 steam screw Santa Cruz
La Gironde Two Masted Schooner 1875 1902 204 South Channel Islands
La Grange Three Masted Ship 1835 1859 Sprung leak Sacramento County 95 feet 25 feet 259 sail Sacramento
La Jenelle Steam screw 1931 1970 Sorenson and Bayles 466 feet 60 feet 7000 twin turbines Ventura
La Paloma 1943 Wrecked Orange
La Paz Bark 1855 Monster wave Chazelles 1078 sail Mendocino
La Sota Gas yawl 1905 1915 Burned 55 Los Angeles
Labor Gas screw 1920 1924 42 North Channel Islands
Labouchere Sidewheel Steamboat 1858 1866 Wrecked Hudson Bay Co. Mouatt 202 feet 28 feet 680 oscillating Marin
Lady Alta Oil yawl 1930 1931 Burned 102 South Channel Islands
Lady Mine Schooner 1898 1910 Stranded 9 sail Humboldt
Lafayette Sloop 1857 Grounded San Francisco
Laguna Schooner 1900 Stranded sail Humboldt
Lahina Four Masted Barkentine 1901 1933 Stranded 1067 sail Los Angeles
Lammermore Clipper 1874 1882 Waverly Line Guthrie, J. D. 260 feet 40.7 feet 1626 sail Sonoma
Larry Doheny Tanker 1942 Torpedoed Richfield Oil Co. Breiland, Olaf Humboldt
Last Chance Scow schooner 1862 1881 Squall Peter Jacobson Peterson, George 60.7 feet 16.5 feet 27.57 sail San Francisco
Laura Bevin 1857 Santa Barbara
Laura Ellen 1869 Stranded Humboldt
Laura May Schooner 1873 Grounded sail San Francisco
Lazy Days Barge 1943 1953 Foundered 150 feet 93 San Diego
LCT 1358 Landing craft 1945 Wrecked U.S. Navy Los Angeles
Leader 1947 Wrecked Los Angeles
Leader Schooner 1876 North Channel Islands
Leader Steamship 1893 Collision Contra Costa
Leelenaw 1899 Wrecked San Mateo
Lena Schooner 1866 Grounded San Luis Obispo
Letitia Schooner 1867 1915 Foundered 245 sail
Liberty Schooner 1872 Stranded sail Sonoma
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Ship's Name Type Year Built Year Sunk Cause Owner Captain Length Beam Tonnage Engine County
Liberty Girl Oil screw 1919 1942 Stranded 57 Los Angeles
Lightwing Schooner 1873 Wrecked sail Mendocino
Lili of Elsffeith Bark 1885 Grounded 1609 sail Humboldt
Lillebonne Two Masted Schooner 1883 1912 Foundered 218 sail
Lily Schooner 1882 1935 142 Los Angeles
Lily Van Schooner 1892 sail
Lime Point Scow schooner 1878 Stranded 20 sail San Francisco
Lina Simpson Sloop 1872 Capsized sail San Francisco
Linde Oil screw 1928 1951 Stranded 73 Ventura
Linnea Gas screw 1908 1927 Burned 51 Sacramento
Litta Schooner 1870 Wrecked sail Humboldt
Little Butte 1946 Los Angeles
Little River Two Masted Schooner 1869 1885 parted lines
J Jensen, Little River Mill
Co. Nelson 89 sail Mendocino
Lizzie Derby Sealing schooner 1869 1891 Stranded Scott 81 feet 26 feet 98 Marin
Lizzie Madison Two Masted Schooner 1876 1885 parted moorings B. H. Madison Hanson 93 feet 29 feet 131 sail Mendocino
Lizzie Merril Two Masted Schooner 1887 Stranded sail San Francisco
Lizzie Merrill Two Masted Schooner 1884 1884 Stranded Merrill Lindridge 80 sail Mendocino
Lizzie Patterson Barge 1879 none
Lizzie Shea Schooner 1872 Wrecked sail Humboldt
Lizzie Theresa Gas screw 1876 1920 Burned Solono
Llewellyn J Morse Ship 1877 1926 Burned 1392 sail South Channel Islands
Lola Schooner 1878 Stranded sail Humboldt
Lone Eagle 1940 Wrecked Santa Barbara
Los Angeles Dredge 1910 1942 Wrecked 199 Santa Barbara
Los Angeles Steam screw 1866 1894 Grounded
Pacific Coast Steamship
Co. Leland, Herman 107 feet 27.5 feet 495 Monterey
Los Angeles TC #1 Barge 1915 1921 Foundered 52 Los Angeles
Lottie Carson Schooner 1881 286 Orange
Lotus 1921 Wrecked Santa Barbara
Louis Five Masted Schooner 1888 1907 Stranded Simpson Lumber Company Dyer 193 feet 36 feet 831 sail Farallon Islands
Lourakis Oil screw 1931 1951 Stranded 57 Mendocino
Lovely Flora Schooner 1858 Stranded San Diego
LSC 127 Landing craft 1945 Wrecked U.S. Navy Los Angeles
Lucas Ship 1828 1858 Wrecked
Capt. Dagget and Leonidas
Haskell Dagget 102 feet 25 feet 700 sail Farallon Islands
Lucky Star 1950 Santa Barbara
Lucretia K Oil screw 1941 1958 54 Santa Barbara
Lucy Ann Brig 1875 Stranded Smith, J. C. sail Ventura
Lulu Schooner 1883 Capsized sail
Lulu Two Masted Schooner 1885 Parted lines in storm Hansen 98 sail Mendocino
Lydia Whaler 1840 1907 105.6 feet 27.4 feet 352 Sail San Francisco
Lyman A Stewart Tanker 1914 1922 Collision Union Oil Company 408.8 feet 55.5 feet 6076 Oil San Francisco
Mabel and Edith Schooner 1867 1877 leak R. Hansen Hansen, R. 48.5 sail
Mabel Gray Schooner 1882 1904 Wrecked 205 sail Los Angeles
Mabel Grey 1892 Wrecked Solono
Macon Dirigible 1935 Storm U.S. Navy 785 feet 144 feet
8 500hp
Maybachs Monterey
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Ship's Name Type Year Built Year Sunk Cause Owner Captain Length Beam Tonnage Engine County
Madeline Fishing sloop 1925 Burned sail Marin
Maggie Steamship 1904 Grounded Hooker 150 San Francisco
Maggie Johnston Schooner 1863 Stranded sail San Mateo
Maggie Ross Steamship 1878 1892 Grounded Marshall 115 feet 32 feet 282 Sonoma
Majestic Steam schooner 1908 1909 Stranded Ira J Harmon and Co. Keegan, Austin 187 feet 42 feet 870 Monterey
Majestic Swan Schooner 1969 sail South Channel Islands
Major Tomkins Steam screw 1854 Grounded Hunt San Francisco
Makaweli Barkentine 1902 1935 Stranded 899 none Los Angeles
Mandalay Steam schooner 1900 1918 Stranded Loftstrom 438 Del Norte
Manual Espinosa 1940 Wrecked San Francisco
Margaret C Schooner Barge 1880 1933 Burned 58 South Channel Islands
Marie Gas screw 1920 1925 Burned 161 Yolo
Marietta 1877 Capsized Le Ballister sail Humboldt
Marin Schooner 1861 sail Marin
Markay Tanker, type T-2 1942 1947 Explosion 10342 Los Angeles
Marshall Brig 1859 Stranded sail Sonoma
Martha and Elizabeth Schooner 1877 Stranded sail Mendocino
Mary Schooner 1853 sail Marin
Mary and Gilbert Schooner 1887 Stranded sail San Francisco
Mary and Helen Whaler 1886 Burned sail
Mary Buhne Two Masted Schooner 1876 1903 Collision 147 sail Humboldt
Mary Cleveland Clipper schooner 1877 Stranded 91 sail Mendocino
Mary D Oil screw 1953 South Channel Islands
Mary D Pomeroy Two Masted Schooner 1879 1879 Capsized Capt. Bruce & D. Pomeroy Scott 114 sail Marin
Mary Ellen Schooner 1869 Burned sail San Francisco
Mary Etta Schooner 1905 Wrecked sail Sonoma
Mary F Slade Bark 1859 Stranded Balch and Weber sail Humboldt
Mary Hanlon Gas schooner 1902 1924 Foundered 458 Humboldt
Mary Hart Two Masted Schooner 1878 Foundered Jensen sail Mendocino
Mary Jane Schooner 1849 Stranded U.S. Army Hussey sail Los Angeles
Mary Martin Schooner 1863 Stranded San Mateo
Mary Stuart Brig 1851 Stranded Thompson sail San Mateo
Mary V Oil screw 1947 1952 Foundered 50 San Diego
Mary Zephyr Two Masted Schooner 1882 Wrecked Schmalling sail Mendocino
Maryland Steamship 1913 Burned Marin
Maryland Two Masted Schooner 1862 sail Humboldt
Matilda Heron Ship 1875 Stranded sail Sonoma
Maxim Two Masted Schooner 1876 1907 Foundered 117 sail Humboldt
May Flint Four masted iron Bark 1880 1900 Collision California Shipping Co. Woodside 351.8 feet 42.9 feet 3288 sail San Francisco
May Queen Schooner 1879 Parted moorings sail Del Norte
Mazzani 1856 Wrecked Santa Barbara
McCulloch Cutter 1917 Collision U.S. Coast Guard Ventura
McPherson Steam screw 1869 Collision U.S. Army Toler San Francisco
Melrose Ferry 1905 1932 dragged anchor 274 feet 43 feet 2662 2 inclined, 1040hp Los Angeles
Melrose Schooner 1902 1938 615 sail Los Angeles
Melvina Sloop 1868 Capsized sail Farallon Islands
Melvina Gas screw 1889 1920 63
Mendocino Schooner 1885 Wrecked 93 sail Mendocino
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Ship's Name Type Year Built Year Sunk Cause Owner Captain Length Beam Tonnage Engine County
Mendocino Two Masted Schooner 1888 Wrecked sail Humboldt
Merced Gas screw 1912 1913 Stranded 994 Humboldt
Mersey Three Masted Bark 1840 1850 Stranded Buchanan of Liverpool Cubbin, William 393 sail San Francisco
Metis Schooner 1865 Storm Haines sail Mendocino
Metis 1917 wrecked
Mexican 1853 Wrecked Humboldt
Miduena Gas schooner 1913 1924 Stranded 71 Humboldt
Milan Bark 1847 1875 Arson Pope and Talbot Lumber 773 sail
Mildura
Mildura II Oil yacht 1927 1932 Stranded 47 San Diego
Milmar 1950 Wrecked South Channel Islands
Milwaukee Armored cruiser 1917 Stranded U.S. Navy 9700 Humboldt
Mindanao Schooner 1902 1946 Wrecked 566 sail San Diego
Miner Sternwheel Steamboat 1850 1851 Burned Clark 75 San Joaquin
Minerva Schooner 1871 Stranded sail Sonoma
Minnie A Caine fishing barge 1900 1939 Parted anchor Olaf C Olsen 196 feet 41 feet none Los Angeles
Minnie G Atkins Schooner 1873 Grounded Dodd sail San Francisco
Mississippi 1924 Los Angeles
Missouri 1850 1851 Snagged
Miya 1933 South Channel Islands
Mohican Bark 1875 1926 Wrecked 852 San Diego
Mollie Stevens Lake steamer 1882 Burned Inyo
Monarch Tug 1875 1915
Collision with floating
object
Sacramento-Stockton SS
Co. Charles P. McNeill 195 Contra Costa
Monarch Gas screw 1919 1929 Burned 91 San Joaquin
Mondego Oil screw 1950 1967 306 San Diego
Monte Carlo Tanker 1921 1936
Stranded during
storm 300 feet 44 feet 2702 San Diego
Montebello Tanker 1941 Torpedoed Union Oil Company Eckstrom, Olaf 457 feet 58 feet 12,304 quad expan.steam San Luis Obispo
Monterey Steamship 1869 1880 Grounded von Helms 120 feet 27 feet 382 Sonoma
Monterey Schooner 1862 sail Marin
Monterey Barkentine 1878 1935 1854 sail Los Angeles
Montezuma Gas screw 1884 1925 Burned 73 Solono
Moody Destroyer 1919 1933 sunk for movie MGM Studios none 314 feet 31 feet 1308
2 13K shp geared
turbines Los Angeles
Moray Submarine 1970 U.S. Navy South Channel Islands
Morgan Shell Tug 1951 Burned 65 feet
Morning Light Two Masted Schooner 1858 1868 Stranded Stevens 60 feet 20 feet 43 sail Farallon Islands
Mose 1878 Wrecked Marin
Motormate Gas screw 1944 Collision 273 San Joaquin
Munleon Freighter 1919 1931 Foundered
McCormick Steamship
Company Hengst 251 feet 44 feet 2606 triple expansion Marin
Muriel Schooner barge 1895 1925 Stranded 537 Orange
My Pride 1954 Wrecked San Francisco
N B Otter hunter 1879 Stranded sail North Channel Islands
N L Drew Two Masted Schooner 1869 1882 Parted moorings Capt. Hendrix Pendleton 20 sail Mendocino
Nahumkeag Three Masted Bark 1846 1867 Stranded Abernathy Line Knight 110 feet 25 feet 291 sail Marin
Nancy Lee 1946 North Channel Islands
Napa City Schooner 1862 1890 Capsized Thiemann, H. 46 sail Marin
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Ship's Name Type Year Built Year Sunk Cause Owner Captain Length Beam Tonnage Engine County
Narwhale Bark 1883 1934 523 sail San Diego
Natalia (Natalie) Brig 1834 Gale Gomez, Juan sail Monterey
National City 1907 Los Angeles
Naughty Queen Oil screw 1942 1974 278 Los Angeles
Nautilus Schooner 1877 Stranded sail Sonoma
Navajo Oil screw 1944 1963 55 Orange
Necanium Steam schooner 1912 1936 Foundered 752
Nedra Barge 1918 1936 Foundered 53 Orange
Nelson 1936 Los Angeles
Nemaha Gas yawl 1911 1925 Stranded 81 Humboldt
Neponset #2 Sternwheel Steamboat 1884 1921 Foundered 224
Neptune Two Masted Schooner 1882 1900 Wrecked Robert Dollar Johnson 106 feet 30 feet 184 sail San Francisco
Neptune Bucket Dredge 1906 1980 Olympic Dredge Company 140 feet 69.75 feet Sacramento
Nerenta K Oil screw 1927 1941 Foundered 60 Santa Cruz
Nettie Low Gas schooner 1891 1900 capsized Low, Tom 55 feet 18.5 feet 26 Corliss gasoline Marin
Nevada Steamship 1940 85 feet
New Crivello Oil screw 1936 1936 Foundered 116 San Mateo
New England Bark Wrecked sail Marin
New Home II Oil screw 1948 1956 65 San Diego
New Life 1932 Wrecked Santa Barbara
New Rex Oil screw 1936 1952 Foundered 113 Orange
New Saturnia Screw MS 1936 1955 Foundered 116 Orange
New World Oil screw 1926 1945 Foundered 55 San Diego
New World Steamship 1854 Snagged Yolo
New York Three Masted Ship 1883 1898 Beached Peabody 2000 sail San Mateo
Newbern Steam screw 1862 1895 Grounded
Pacific Coast Steamship
Co. von Helms 198 feet 29 feet 943 Los Angeles
Newberry 1894 Los Angeles
Newburg Steam screw 1898 1918 Wrecked 450 Sonoma
Newsboy Steam schooner 1906 Collision Humboldt
Nicholas Destroyer 1923 Stranded U.S.Navy 314 feet 32 feet 1250 4 stack turbines Santa Barbara
Nicholas Biddle Bark 1837 1876 Stranded sail Orange
Nicholas Van Bergen 1880 Stranded Del Norte
Ning Po Chinese junk 1753 1931 Old age 100 25 291 sail South Channel Islands
Nippon Maru naval tanker 1919 1933 grounded in fog Iino Shoji K K Line Oni, T. 400 feet 52 feet 5842 Santa Barbara
No. 4431 Scow 1944 1951 389 South Channel Islands
Nomad 1943 San Diego
Noonday Clipper 1855 1863 Grounded
Henry Hastings, Boston,
Mass. Henry 200 feet 38.5 feet 2100 sail Farallon Islands
Nordic Pride Purse seiner 1941 1941 Foundered 105 Mendocino
Norfolk 1918 Wrecked Humboldt
Norlina Freighter 1909 1926 Wrecked Garland Line Soderlun 386 feet 51 feet 4523 Sonoma
Norma Three Masted Schooner 1883 1899 Wrecked Peterson, P. 138.5 feet 34 feet 310 sail Mendocino
Norman Scow sloop 1853 1879 Stranded sail Contra Costa
Normandie Freighter 1936 1937 Collision 123 Humboldt
North American Two Masted Schooner 1859 Wrecked sail Mendocino
North Fork Steam schooner 1888 1919 Stranded Humboldt
North Head Oil screw 1942 1954 Burned 50 South Channel Islands
North Star 1920 South Channel Islands
Northbend Brig 1855 Wrecked sail Mendocino
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Ship's Name Type Year Built Year Sunk Cause Owner Captain Length Beam Tonnage Engine County
Northern Light Tuna clipper 1937 1955 Explosion & fire San Diego
Northerner Sidewheel Steamboat 1847 1869 Stranded Dall 1012 Humboldt
Northwestern Two Masted Schooner 1880
Struck rock,
capsized Johnson sail Mendocino
Novato Hay scow 1884 Burned sail Marin
Novick(Norvick) Steam corvette 1863 Stranded Russian Navy Marin
Novus 1940 Los Angeles
Noyo Steamship 1887 1915 San Diego
Noyo Steel steamer 1913 1935 Stranded in fog National Steamship Co. Boslrum 224.4 feet 16.6 feet 1419 Mendocino
NSK #2 Barge 1918 1934 Burned 73 Orange
Nuestra Senora de Ayuda Galleon 1641 230 sail South Channel Islands
Occidental Three Masted Schooner 1884 1902 Wrecked 209 sail Humboldt
Ocean Bird Sloop 1869 Collision sail Contra Costa
Ocean Pearl 1878 Humboldt
Oceania San Mateo
Ohioan Freighter 1914 1936 Grounded
American Hawaii
Steamship Co. Read 407.7 feet 53.7 feet 5154 San Francisco
Old Timer Oil screw 1928 1966 81 South Channel Islands
Oliver Cutts Bark 1863 1868 Grounded 143 feet 31 feet 700 sail San Francisco
Olivia Schultz Two Masted Schooner 1883 Parted lines sail Mendocino
Olympic Barkentine 1892 1948 1469 sail San Diego
Olympic #2 Barge 1877 1940 Collision
Hermosa Amusement
Corp. Greenwood, Jack 258 feet 38 feet 1766 none Los Angeles
Oneatta Steam screw 1884 Stranded Humboldt
Oneida Victory Victory ship 1946 Santa Barbara
Ontario Brig 1853
Scuttled as
breakwater none sail Mendocino
Onward Oil screw 1919 1950 Burned 51 South Channel Islands
Oregon Oil screw 1927 1934 Stranded 52 Monterey
Oregon Cove Barge 1943 1950 862
Oregon Trader Barge 1949 Los Angeles
Oriental Oil screw 1929 1930 Stranded 66 Los Angeles
Oriole 1905 1921 Wrecked San Francisco
Orion Oil screw 1927 1942 56 Monterey
Orion Planet 1955 Santa Barbara
Orteric Tramp steamer 1919 1922 Grounded Harper 412 feet 55 feet 6696 Mendocino
Osceola Two Masted Scow Schooner 1880 Wrecked Hoargard 45 sail Mendocino
Oseola Scow schooner 1878 Stranded sail Marin
Otago Bark 1888 Stranded Collins, W. M. 870 sail Marin
Otsego Schooner 1872 Stranded sail San Luis Obispo
Ottilie Fjord Schooner 1892 1942 261 Orange
Oxford 1852 Grounded McLane 750 sail Marin
P A Owens Schooner 1880 Stranded sail
P-38 Aircraft Twin inlines South Channel Islands
Pac Baroness Freighter 0 1987 Collision 531.5 feet 82.25 feet Oil screw North Channel Islands
Pacific Oil screw 1928 1951 Foundered 89 South Channel Islands
Pacific Schooner 1875 Stranded sail Mendocino
Pacific 1922 San Diego
Pacific 1951 South Channel Islands
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Ship's Name Type Year Built Year Sunk Cause Owner Captain Length Beam Tonnage Engine County
Pacific Enterprise Freighter 1927 1949 Grounded
Norfolk and North
American SS Co. Cogle 454 60 feet 6736 Mendocino
Pacific Star 1941 Wrecked Orange
Page Schooner 1889 Grounded sail Marin
Pal Oil screw 1926 1937 Wrecked 71 Ventura
Pala 1949 South Channel Islands
Palawan Liberty ship 1945 1977 sunk for reef Cal Dept Fish and Game none 441 feet 57 feet 14250 Los Angeles
Palestine Downeaster 1877 1891 grounded Samuel Blair 209 feet 40 feet 1397 sail San Francisco
Palmyra Clipper 1876 1908 Burned 1299 sail South Channel Islands
Palo Alto Tanker 1918 1936
Converted to fishing
pier Cal-Nevada Co. 435 feet 7500 Santa Cruz
Pan Pacific Oil screw 1948 1950 Foundered 226 Los Angeles
Paproco #2 Barge 1916 1917 Stranded 91 Los Angeles
Paproco #3 Barge 1917 1921 Stranded 99 Los Angeles
Paragon Schooner 1850 Wrecked sail Del Norte
Paragon Oil yawl 1929 1939 Stranded 100 feet 176 Orange
Paralell Two Masted Schooner 1868 1887 Grounded S E Peterson Miller 98 feet 31 feet 148.8 sail San Francisco
Pathfinder Two Masted Schooner 1900 1914 Grounded Johnson 81 feet 24 feet 86
auxiliary gas
screw San Francisco
Patria Freighter 1954 Stranded North Channel Islands
Patrician Ship 1859 1873 Struck shoal George Marshall and Son Wilson, F. J. 195 feet 35.7 feet 1140 sail Marin
Patta 1868 Wrecked Santa Barbara
Patuxent Schooner 1850 Stranded Humboldt
PC 815 Subchaser 1945 Wrecked U.S. Navy San Diego
Pearl Schooner 1904 Wrecked 87 sail San Francisco
Pectin Tanker North Channel Islands
Penelope Schooner 1922 sail San Diego
Peor Es Nada Schooner 1834 1836 Stranded Issac Williams Kuppertz,Gerard 20 sail San Francisco
Pet Two Masted Schooner 1868 1888 Grounded Purcher 67.5 feet 22 feet 49 sail San Francisco
Pet Steamship 1866 1870 Snagged McNair & Brewer McNair 35 Yolo
Petaluma #2 Sidewheel Steamboat 1884 1914 Burned 264 Napa
Petersburg Brig 1837 1852 Grounded W H Pike Pike 81.6 feet 25.6 feet 183 sail Marin
Petril Sloop 1902 Storm Santa Barbara
Philadelphia Ship 1849 Burned Weare 513 sail San Francisco
Philippine Four Masted Schooner 1899 1934 Stranded 523 sail Los Angeles
Phyllis Oil screw 1939 1952 Burned 82 Santa Barbara
Piedmont Schooner 1844 1855 Grounded Smith 85 feet 21 feet 163 sail Humboldt
Pierpoint Queen 1951 Los Angeles
Pilgram 1852 Burned sail Los Angeles
Pilot Steamship 1869 1883 Explosion Graves 122 feet 25 feet 200 Napa
Pinole Schooner 1873 sail Sonoma
Pioneer Steamship 1872
Pioneer #1 1849
Pirate Galleon Ship 1875 1930 sail Los Angeles
Pliny Steamship 1882 Los Angeles
Plumas 1854
Plutus Schooner 1858 Stranded sail San Diego
Point Arena Steam schooner 1887 1913 Stranded 115 feet 30.8 feet 245 San Mateo
Point Loma Brig 1888 1950 Foundered Harris 360 feet 48 feet 4288 sail Del Norte
Polaris Four Masted Schooner 1902 1914 Parted tow Hansen, A. S. 195 feet 40 feet 790 sail Marin
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Ship's Name Type Year Built Year Sunk Cause Owner Captain Length Beam Tonnage Engine County
Polynesia Clipper 1862 Stranded 1084 sail San Francisco
Pomo Steam schooner 1903 1914 Burst seams Swayne and Hoyt Lilleland 130 feet 33 feet 368 Triple expansion Marin
Port Costa Gas screw 1899 1929 Burned 79
Portia Schooner 1894 Wrecked sail Sonoma
Portland Barkentine 1873 1906 493 sail Ventura
Pride of the Sea Santa Barbara
Prince Alfred Steamship 1852 1874 Grounded
Rosenfield and
Bermingham Sholl 160.5 feet 32.7 feet 815 Marin
Progress Oil screw 1927 1942 Stranded 53 Monterey
Pronto 1937 Wrecked South Channel Islands
Prospector Oil screw 1911 1930 Burned 78 San Diego
Prosper Three Masted Schooner 1892 1924 Burned 241 sail
Prosperity Oil screw 1926 1943 Foundered 70 San Francisco
Puerto Rican Chemical tanker 1971 1984 Explosion
Keystone Shipping
Co.,Philadelphia Spillane, James C. 632.3 feet 90.1 feet 34684
13,600 hp oil
steamer Farallon Islands
Putnik Gas screw 1917 1926 35 Los Angeles
Quaddy Belle Brig 1868 Stranded in storm sail Mendocino
Quadra 1924
Queen Christina Tramp steamer 1901 1907 Grounded T. Dunlop Harris 360 feet Del Norte
Quinalt Steam screw 1917 Stranded Hartwood Lumber Co. 582 Humboldt
Quinault 1911 Wrecked Marin
Quinault Victory Victory ship 1944 1944 Explosion U.S. Navy 7212 Contra Costa
R C Co #2 Scow 1931 1939 Stranded 402 Ventura
R C Co #6 Barge 1934 1943 Stranded 490 Los Angeles
R C Slade Four Masted Schooner 1900 1917 673 sail Mendocino
R D Inman Steam schooner 1907 1909 Stranded Loop Steamship Company Lancaster, A. J. 186.5 feet 39 feet 768 Marin
R K Page Steamship 1853 Boiler explosion Dow Sutter
R L Emery Trawler 1952 Del Norte
Rachel Two Masted Schooner 1895 Meyers 84 sail Marin
Radio Schooner 1924 1950 Foundered 137 San Diego
Ramsden Destroyer escort 1975 U.S. Navy South Channel Islands
Randall Schooner 1871 Burned sail
Ranger Steamship 1853 1854 Boiler explosion Alameda
Rassino II Gas yacht 1927 1935 33 South Channel Islands
Red Bluff 1880 foundered San Francisco
Red Line Tanker 1930 Explosion Union Oil Company San Joaquin
Redondo 1932 1948 Wrecked
Redwing 1928 Wrecked South Channel Islands
Redwood Steam schooner 1908 1939 Burned Lowe Trading Co. Madsen 679
Reliance Steam tug 1898 1945 Foundered Spreckles Company 234 San Francisco
Reliance #1 Two Masted Schooner 1880 1885 Wrecked 69 feet 24 feet 65 sail Mendocino
Reliant Oil screw 1965 South Channel Islands
Relief Pilot boat 1863 Capsized San Francisco
Reporter Three Masted Schooner 1876 1902 Stranded Hansen, Adolph 141 feet 34 feet 350 sail San Francisco
Republic 1862 San Francisco
Republic Fishing smack 1869 unknown sail San Francisco
Rescue Steam tug 1865 1874 Stranded Capt. Griffith & Company 100 feet 25 feet 139 300 hp San Francisco
Resolute Oil screw 1948 1952 90 Santa Barbara
Respigadera 1888 Grounded 2583 Los Angeles
Restless Two Masted Scow Schooner 1886 parted lines Musselman 78 sail Mendocino
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Ship's Name Type Year Built Year Sunk Cause Owner Captain Length Beam Tonnage Engine County
Retriever Barge 1922 1951 Foundered Gordan McRae 110 feet 99 none Los Angeles
Rhine Maru Freighter 1922 1930 Grounded Kenoko 405 feet 53 feet 6157 3 steam turbines Monterey
Rhoderick Dhu Schooner 1874 1909 Stranded Associated Oil Company Haskins 1534 none Monterey
Richfield Coastal tanker 1913 1930 Grounded Richfield Oil Co. Lee 250 feet 43 feet 2366 Marin
Ringleader Schooner 1869 Capsized Stevens, Pete sail Contra Costa
Rio Rey Two Masted Schooner 1880 1901 Wrecked Isjgkett 79 feet 25 feet 80 sail Mendocino
Rip Tide South Channel Islands
Riverside Steamship 1912 Capsized Marin
Riverside Steam screw 1908 1913 Stranded Charles Nelson Co. 240 feet 1838 Humboldt
Roanoke Steamship 1916 Cargo shifted
North Pacific Steamship
Company Dickson 276 feet 40.5 feet 2354 San Luis Obispo
Robert B Oil screw 1923 1945 Burned 136 San Joaquin
Robert E Lee Two Masted Schooner 1870 Wrecked sail Mendocino
Robert Henderson Three Masted Bark 1838 1850 missed stays Henderson, Liverpoo, Eng Toohig, James 368 sail San Francisco
Robert Mills 1946 Los Angeles
Robert Sudden Bark 1887 1905 Wrecked 616 sail Santa Barbara
Rochelle Brig 1849 Paty sail Monterey
Rocona Oil screw 1963 Los Angeles
Rosalie Schooner 1883 Stranded sail Mendocino
Rosalie Schooner 1862 Stranded sail Mendocino
Rosana Oil screw 1939 1953 Foundered 105 San Mateo
Rosecrans Oil steamer Santa Barbara
Rossino #2 1947 South Channel Islands
Rough and Ready Gas screw 1864 1880 Burned 64 Napa
Ruby Three Masted Schooner 1902 1941 Wrecked 345 sail South Channel Islands
Ruby Schooner 1888 1916 Foundered 50 sail San Francisco
Ruby E Cutter 1934 1987 Scuttled Cal Dept Fish and Game 165 San Diego
Ruth 1898 1924 Wrecked 377 Alameda
Rydall Hall Three Masted Ship 1876 Wrecked sail San Mateo
S & C #9 Barge 1925 1940 Foundered 161 none Los Angeles
S C C Co. #1 1933 Wrecked San Diego
S Danielson Schooner 1903 Stranded sail Mendocino
S F Blunt Two Masted Schooner 1868 Wrecked sail Mendocino
S F Blunt Schooner 1862 Waterlogged sail Mendocino
S M Whipple 1875
S N Bentley River steamer 1886 Snagged
S N Castle Three Masted Schooner 1886 1926 Burned 514 sail South Channel Islands
S P Lee Destroyer 1923 Stranded U.S.Navy 314 feet 32 feet 1250 4 stack turbines Santa Barbara
S-37 Submarine 1923 1945 Parted tow ex U.S. Navy 219 feet 21 feet diesel-electric San Diego
Sachtleben Oil screw 1936 1940 Grounded 57 San Diego
Sacramento Schooner 1866 sail Contra Costa
Sacramento Sidewheel ferry 1861 1874 Wrecked 373
Sacramento Ferry 1877 1968 87 Los Angeles
Sacramento Sternwheel Steamboat 1914 1932 Burned 760 Yolo
Sagamore Schooner 1864 Foundered Lewy sail Contra Costa
Saint Anne of the Sunset Oil screw 1944 1955 Foundered 100 North Channel Islands
Saint Croix Steamship 1895 1909 Burned Schubach & Hamilton Warner 240 feet 40 feet 1993 Ventura
Saint James Oil screw 1940 1949 Burned 149 Los Angeles
Saint Joseph Ship 1881 Collision sail
Saint Joseph Oil screw 1975 60 Los Angeles
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Ship's Name Type Year Built Year Sunk Cause Owner Captain Length Beam Tonnage Engine County
Saint Louis Bark 1866 1887 Grounded 276 sail Los Angeles
Saint Paul Steam screw 1898 1905 Stranded Randall 2440 Ventura
Saint Paul Steam screw 1875 1896 Wrecked
Pacific Coast Steamship
Co. 198 feet 31 feet 889 Monterey
Salina Gas screw 1917 1924 41 San Diego
Salinas Steamship 1861 Swamped Monterey
Salinas Steam screw 1871 Stranded Sudden 149 San Mateo
Samoa Steam screw 1898 1913 Stranded Marin
Samoset Ship 1847 1852 Wrecked 734 sail San Francisco
Samson Two Masted Schooner 1890 1895 Wrecked Hamson 109 feet 34 feet 217 sail San Francisco
Samuel S Lewis Steam screw 1851 1853 Grounded Vanderbuilt Line Sparrow 216.9 feet 32.6 feet 1104 double oscillating Marin
San Agustin Galleon 1595 Storm King of Spain Cermeno, Sebastian 80 feet 23 feet 200 sail Marin
San Benito Collier 1884 1896 Stranded Smith, William 350 feet 42 feet 2811 Steam Mendocino
San Buenaventura Sloop 1858 Sprung seams sail North Channel Islands
San Carlos Bark 1797 Storm 58 feet 17 feet sail San Francisco
San Domenico Purse seiner 1935 1935 Stranded Intanliata 86 feet 109 Marin
San Francisco Oil screw 1943 1949 Burned 128 North Channel Islands
San Francisco Clipper 1853 1854
Missed stays,
grounded
Rich & Elam and Thomas
Wardle (NY) Tetzer 198 feet 38 feet sail San Francisco
San Gabriel Steamship 1907 wrecked Marin
San Gabriel Oil screw 1926 1931 39 South Channel Islands
San Guiseppe Oil screw 1935 1950 Burned 109 North Channel Islands
San Jacinto Schooner 1859 Wrecked sail Humboldt
San Joaquin Motorship 1951 Collision Brungard, Mike 190 feet Contra Costa
San Joaquin #2 1875 1932 Burned 242 Yolo
San Joaquin #3 Sidewheel Steamboat 1877 1910 Burned 220 Sacramento
San Joaquin #4 Sternwheel Steamboat 1885 1932 Burned 365 Yolo
San Jose Steam screw 1903 1919 Burned 1115 Alameda
San Jose Sternwheel Steamboat 1898 1932 Burned 192 Yolo
San Juan 1943 Wrecked Santa Barbara
San Juan Steam screw 1882 1929 Collision White Flyer Line Asplund, A. F. 283 feet 37 feet 2150 San Mateo
San Mateo Schooner 1854 Capsized Lambert sail San Francisco
San Pedro Galleon 1598 South Channel Islands
San Pedro Steam scow 1894 Santa Barbara
San Rafael Steam Ferry 1894 1901 Collision North Pacific Coast RR Co. McKenzie, John J. 40
San Ramon Steam screw 1875 Stranded San Mateo
San Sebastian Galleon 1754 grounded sail South Channel Islands
San Ubaldo 1926 Los Angeles
San Vincente Steam screw 1875 1887 Burned
Pacific Coast Steamship
Co. Lewis 107 feet 25 feet 246 San Mateo
Santa Barbara 1900 1905 Stranded 695 Santa Cruz
Santa Cecilia Frigate 1852 South Channel Islands
Santa Clara Ferry 1913 1919 Wrecked Southern Pacific RR Co.
twin double
compounds
Santa Clara Steamship 1851 1851 Burned
Aspinwall Steam
Transportation Co. San Francisco
Santa Cruz Steam screw 1904 Wrecked
Pacific Coast Steamship
Co. San Luis Obispo
Santa Domingo Galleon 1540 South Channel Islands
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Ship's Name Type Year Built Year Sunk Cause Owner Captain Length Beam Tonnage Engine County
Santa Lucia Oil screw 1937 1954 Burned 109 San Luis Obispo
Santa Marta Galleon 1582 South Channel Islands
Santa Rosa Steam screw 1884 1911 Grounded
Pacific Coast Steamship
Co. Fariain, J. O. 326 feet 2416 Santa Barbara
Santa Rosa 1877 Foundered Humboldt
Santa Rosa Galleon 1717 South Channel Islands
Santa Rosa Oil screw 1956 South Channel Islands
Santa Rosalia sardine fishing boat Stranded diesel Mendocino
Sanwan Oil yawl 1917 1943 Foundered 219 Santa Barbara
Sarah Alexander Two Masted Schooner 1883 1889 parted lines Cousins 55.5 feet 19.3 feet 51 sail Mendocino
Sarah Louise Schooner 1863 1875 Dragged anchor 68 feet 22 feet 49 sail Mendocino
Sarah W Schooner 1867 Sabatage Swann, John W. sail San Mateo
Sausalito 1884 Wrecked Northern Pacific RR Co. McKenzie 205 feet 32 feet 692 Marin
Schah Jehan Ship 1867
Missed stays,
grounded Miles sail San Francisco
Scio Page Schooner 1888 Stranded sail Marin
Scotia Steam screw 1881 1914 Stranded 181 Santa Barbara
Sea Foam Steam schooner 1904 1931 Grounded Nelson Steamship Co. Simonson 127 feet 32 feet 205 Mendocino
Sea Foam Two Masted Schooner 1873 1885 Capsized L. C. Peterson Bacht 92 sail Mendocino
Sea Gull 1912
Sea Gull Steam screw 1852 Stranded Tichnor Humboldt
Sea Hawk Oil screw 1941 1945 Collision 83 San Diego
Sea King Oil screw 1946 1956 132 Los Angeles
Sea Lion Oil screw 1935 1954 Burned 89 Santa Barbara
Sea Nymph Clipper 1853 1861 Stranded 1215 sail Marin
Sea Pirate Oil screw 1936 1946 Foundered 87 Humboldt
Sea Products #1 Barge 1912 1927 Foundered 57 none Ventura
Sea Products #2 Barge 1915 1917 Stranded 75 none Los Angeles
Sea Products #3 Barge 1916 1931 Wrecked 83 San Diego
Sea Products #4 Barge 1916 1917 Stranded 111 none Los Angeles
Sea Trader 1878 Wrecked Marin
Sea Witch Pilot boat 1853 Grounded San Francisco
Sea Wolf Oil screw 1928 1932 Foundered 61 Santa Cruz
Seaborn 1951 North Channel Islands
Sehome Oil screw 1889 1918 Collision Monticello Co. 692
from old
destroyers Marin
Selja Steamship 1910 Collision Lie, Olaf Marin
Selma Schooner 1877 Stranded sail Marin
Seminole Steamer 1911 1913 Collision Southern Pacific Rideout, B.N. San Francisco
Sequoia Steam screw 1898 1907 Stranded 411 Humboldt
Service Jitney 1924 1934 Burned gas Marin
Shark Gas schooner 1911 1924 Foundered 122 Del Norte
Shasta Schooner 1926 Burned Mrs. Carl Juhl sail
Shasta Steam schooner 1908 1939 Old age 192 feet 41 feet 878
12.5X20.5X24
T.E.,single bo. Marin
Shasta Steam schooner 1903 1906 Grounded E.K. Wood Co. Mansen 199 feet 722 Santa Barbara
Shawmut Ship 1863 Grounded sail
Shellco Gas screw 1917 1924 Burned 124
Sheriff Schooner 1852 Storm Tibbey sail Mendocino
Shna Yak Steam schooner 1907 1916 Stranded Kose 839 Monterey
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Ship's Name Type Year Built Year Sunk Cause Owner Captain Length Beam Tonnage Engine County
Shooters Fantasy Sport Fisherman 1987 Scuttled Cal Dept Fish and Game 65 San Diego
Shooting Star Schooner 1860 1861 Capsized sail Sonoma
Shoshoni Oil screw 1944 1965 Burned 55 San Diego
Sibyl Marston Steam screw 1907 1909 Stranded 1086 Santa Barbara
Sierra Steam screw 1917 1926 1286 Los Angeles
Sierra Nevada Sidewheel Steamboat 1852 1869 Grounded in fog Bogart 1246 San Luis Obispo
Sierra Nevada Schooner 1854 Wrecked sail Humboldt
Signal Steamship 1887 1913 Foundered Fred Lindermann 475 San Francisco
Silas Coombs Two Masted Schooner 1875 1875 Wind died
Little River Mill Co. & Capt
Gray Gray 89 sail Mendocino
Silver Cloud Schooner 1876 Stranded Monterey
Silver Gate 1948 Los Angeles
Silver Strand Ferry 1927 1970 Los Angeles
Silver Wave Gas schooner 1936 Wrecked Orange
Simla Bark 1890 1930 Foundered Union Coal Co. 278 feet 42 feet 2237 Alameda
Sir John Franklin Medium clipper 1855 1865 Grounded Dupeaux. John 999 sail San Mateo
Sitka 1934 Ventura
Skipjack 1951 South Channel Islands
Skylark Schooner 1876 Stranded sail Mendocino
Solano Schooner 1868 1871 Stranded Johnson sail Orange
Solano Two Masted Schooner 1865 1877 Stranded 74 feet 25 feet 67 sail Mendocino
Sonoma Oil screw 1914 1949 Foundered 196 Ventura
Sonoma Schooner 1868 1911 Foundered Oceanic Steamship Co. 1063 sail Marin
Sophie McLean Sternwheel Steamboat 1858 1864 Boiler explosion 242 Solono
Sophie Wenger Schooner 1875 Stranded sail Del Norte
Sotoyome Schooner 1907 Burned 534 Humboldt
Southern Explorer Oil screw 1945 1968 130 Los Angeles
Southland Oil screw 1930 1944 Foundered 62 San Mateo
Sovereign Two Masted Schooner 1873 Grounded Ross sail Sonoma
Sovereign Two Masted Schooner 1862 Parted moorings sail Mendocino
Spare Time Fishing boat 1952 Explosion Los Angeles
Sparkling Sea Three Masted Schooner 1882 Lost rudder Beadle Steamship Co. Wilson 127 sail Mendocino
Sparrow Two Masted Schooner 1869 1904 Wrecked 197 sail Humboldt
Speedwell Bark 1872 Stranded sail Mendocino
Spray Fishing boat 1939 Capsized Stackle Ventura
Spud Schooner 1872 Wrecked sail Humboldt
St. George Oil screw 1941 1954 Foundered 214 San Diego
Stamboul Whaling Bark 1843 106.5 feet 25 feet 260.44 sail Solono
Standard 1936 Wrecked Santa Barbara
Standard #1 Oil screw 1927 1951 Foundered 70 South Channel Islands
Standard II Oil screw 1951 South Channel Islands
Stanford Oil screw 1928 1943 Foundered 59 Santa Cruz
Star of Hollywood fishing barge 1942 Los Angeles
Star of Scotland Steam screw 1918 1942 sprung seams 263 feet 35 feet 1250 Los Angeles
Star of the Sea Oil screw 1937 1940 Foundered 68
Star of the Sea Fishing boat 1961 Oil screw Mendocino
Star of the Union Two Masted Schooner 1875 Storm Young, Samuel 36 sail San Francisco
Star of the West Farallon Islands
Star of the West Brig 1840 1845 Grounded Ayles & Company Atherton, William 134 Sail Monterey
Star of Vancouver Ship 1938 Explosion Alameda
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California State Lands Commission Shipwreck Information
Ship's Name Type Year Built Year Sunk Cause Owner Captain Length Beam Tonnage Engine County
Sterling Brig 1843 1855 Foundered 97 feet sail Sacramento
Steven Quinn #1 Gas screw 1918 1918 Burned 62 San Joaquin
Stina Nicolaisen Two Masted Schooner Collision Beadle Steamship Co. 45 sail Mendocino
Stockton City Gas screw 1898 1922 Dragged anchor Helgas, Victor 115 Gasoline Mendocino
Stockton City #2 Gas screw 1916 1925 Wrecked 134 San Joaquin
Storm Cloud Two Masted Schooner 1865 Storm
Mendocino Lumber
Company Smith 118 sail Mendocino
Storm King 1956 Los Angeles
Stranger Oil screw 1918 1948 Foundered 90 San Diego
Stranger Scow schooner 1882 Wrecked sail Mendocino
Strider Sailing yacht 1987 Scuttled Cal Dept Fish and Game 36 sail San Diego
Success 1860 Wrecked Humboldt
Sunlight 1932 Wrecked Santa Barbara
Sunlight Oil screw 1929 1937 Collision 57 San Mateo
Sunol Steam schooner 1890 1900 Burned
A. Combs and Stickney
Lumber Co. Green 132 feet 33 feet 258 sail Mendocino
Suomi Racing yacht 1955 Collision sail Santa Barbara
Suprise Schooner 1881 Stranded sail North Channel Islands
Susan A Owen Schooner 1878 Stranded sail Mendocino
Susan A Owens Two Masted Schooner 1878 Parted lines in storm Ericksen 48 sail Mendocino
Susan Olsen Steam screw 1911 1942 Foundered 953 Del Norte
Susan Wardwell Schooner 1851 Wrecked sail Humboldt
Susanita Schooner 1859 Grounded sail San Francisco
Susie Schooner 1876 Capsized Sonoma
Susie Merrill Three Masted Schooner 1866 1866 Wrecked
Merrill & Co., San
Francisco 148 sail Mendocino
Swallow Gas yawl 1918 1926 Burned 91 Los Angeles
Swastika Oil screw 1926 1933 Burned Solono
T C Condor Oil screw 1914 1936 Stranded 60 diesel Mendocino
T H Allen Pilot boat 1875 1889 Collision 50 San Francisco
Tagus Ship 1851 Fog Marin
Tallulah 1955 Santa Barbara
Taurus Four Masted Schooner 1902 1924 Burned 551 sail South Channel Islands
TBM Aircraft Radial North Channel Islands
TBM Aircraft Radial North Channel Islands
Tennessee Sidewheel Steamboat 1848 1853 Grounded
Pacific Coast Steamship
Co. Mellus, Edward 211 feet 38 feet 1275 Single side lever Marin
Tennessee 1942 Los Angeles
Tennessee Steamship 1843 1851 Collision
Pacific Coast Steamship
Co. Solono
Thomas Burnett 1850 San Francisco
Thomas Crowley 1921 Santa Barbara
Thomas H Benton Brig 1849 Stranded 200 sail Marin
Thomas L. Wand Steam schooner 1922 Grounded 657 Monterey
Thomas P Emigh Barge 1901 1932 Stranded H C Monstad 211 feet 42 feet 1040 none Los Angeles
Thorton 1910 Wrecked North Channel Islands
Three Sisters Trawler 1917 1929 Wrecked A Paladini 56.3 feet 15.6 feet 28 Diesel, 135 hp Marin
Three Sisters Two Masted Schooner 1880 Dragged anchor Walters, Martin 62 sail Mendocino
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Ship's Name Type Year Built Year Sunk Cause Owner Captain Length Beam Tonnage Engine County
Tiverton Steam schooner 1933 Grounded
Christensen Hammond
Line Ahlin, Adolph 336 Humboldt
Tolo Schooner 1861 1871 Stranded J G Jackson Josselyn sail Mendocino
Tongawanda Schooner 1862 Capsized sail Marin
Tonquin Ship 1845 1849 Grounded Wilson, Henry sail San Francisco
Toranto Schooner 1856 Capsized Mr. Dungan Sanger, Edward 150 sail Humboldt
Tortuga LSD 1945 1988 dragged anchor U.S. Navy 458 feet 72 feet 9375 North Channel Islands
Transit Steamship 1881 Collision
Traveler Schooner 1852 Burned sail Santa Cruz
Tricolor Steam screw 1905 Grounded Wold 2498 Humboldt
Trifolicum 1914 Wrecked San Francisco
Trilby Sternwheel Steamboat 1869 1911 Burned 80 Alameda
Triple Crown Supply boat 1968 Santa Barbara
Triton Power schooner 1911 Hit a log San Mateo
Triton Oil screw 1943 Stranded 12 San Diego
Tryst Oil screw 1967 1976 Stranded 12 San Diego
Tuolumne City Steamship 1868 1869 Snagged
Twin Sisters Schooner 1878 Stranded Humboldt
Two Brothers Schooner 1883 Capsized 56.36 sail Sonoma
U S Nelson Two Masted Schooner 1878 Wrecked sail Mendocino
UB-88 Submarine 1918 1921 gunfire U.S.Navy 182 feet 19 feet 640 diesel-electric Los Angeles
Uncle Abe Schooner 1877 Stranded sail Contra Costa
Uncle Sam Sidewheel Steamboat 1852 1853 Bilge plug loose Turnbull Turnbull 65 feet 12 feet 40
25 hp locomotive
engine Imperial
Underwriter 1854 1857 Burned
Unimak 1943
Union Forever Schooner 1886 sail Humboldt
Unknown Junk Los Angeles
Unknown Wreckage Los Angeles
Unknown Los Angeles
Unknown Orange
Unknown Hull remains Los Angeles
Unknown Jetliner Los Angeles
Unknown Aircraft Orange
Unknown Japanese aircraft Orange
Unknown Aircraft Orange
Unknown Wreckage Orange
Unknown Sailboat 1974 sail South Channel Islands
Unknown Sailboat Los Angeles
Unknown Fishing boat Los Angeles
Unknown many wrecks Ventura
Unknown Bait barge Los Angeles
Unknown Cabin cruiser Los Angeles
Unknown Schooner Los Angeles
Unknown Tug Los Angeles
Unknown Barge Los Angeles
unknown Contra Costa
Unnamed Scow 1892 Stranded none San Francisco
Utica Havre packet 1850 Burned
Utility Oil screw 1915 1928 Burned 92
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California State Lands Commission Shipwreck Information
Ship's Name Type Year Built Year Sunk Cause Owner Captain Length Beam Tonnage Engine County
Valencia Oil screw 1927 1933 Burned 60 South Channel Islands
Valentine Alviso Two Masted Schooner 1866 1883 Stranded 43 feet 19 feet 27 Marin
Valetta Sternwheel Steamboat 1901 1932 Burned 419 Yolo
Valiant Oil yawl 1926 1930 Burned 444 South Channel Islands
Valiant 1911 Napa
Valiant 1932 South Channel Islands
Valiant Oil screw tug 1906 1934 Collision Pacific Coast Aggregtes Litton, Robert A. 30
Valley Brew Gas screw 1917 1937 Burned 54 San Joaquin
Valma Kelley Oil screw 1949 Santa Barbara
Vanguard Wrecked Mendocino
Varuna Steamship 1903 Burned Colusa
Velasco Schooner 1854 Stranded sail San Francisco
Ventura Steam screw 1866 1875 Grounded Goodall Nelson & Perkins Fake, George 216 feet 31 feet 1129
2 Horiz BA
IHP750 Monterey
Venture Steam schooner 1888 1892 Grounded 127 feet 33 feet 249 Mendocino
Venus Two Masted Schooner 1875 1881 Parted lines Capt. Todd Olsen 118 sail Mendocino
Veribus Gas screw 1917 1924 Santa Barbara
Verson Schooner 1886 Wrecked sail Mendocino
Victor Constant Steamship 1850 1868 Snagged
Victor H Kelly Tanker 1940 1952 Burned Union Oil Company 8168 Contra Costa
Villa Sloop 1869 Capsized sail
Viola San Francisco
Violet Brig 1879 Burned sail
Virgil Bouge Steam screw 1909 1939 Collision 170
Virginia Oil screw 1929 1932 Burned 68 San Mateo
Viscata Ship 1864 1868 Stranded J Steel, of Liverpool Drummond 204 feet 32.8 feet 1065 sail San Francisco
Volunteer Three Masted Schooner 1887 1906 Stranded Brissen 128.4 feet 38.9 feet 529 sail Sonoma
W A Fletcher Gas screw 1918 1927 Burned 113
W F Browne Schooner 1871 Stranded sail Mendocino
W H Gawley Three Masted Barkentine 1861 1880 Stranded G.A. Meiggs Williams, James E. 147 feet 32 feet 483.15 sail San Mateo
W H Kruegher Steam schooner 1899 1906 Foundered 469 Mendocino
W L Hardison Steamship 1889 Burned Ventura
W L R Emmet 1946 Santa Barbara
W R Chamberlin Jr 1941 San Diego
W S Phelps Schooner 1899 Wrecked 132 sail Humboldt
W T & B Co #6 Scow 1914 1931 Wrecked 738 Santa Barbara
W T Co #12 Barge 1925 1926 Wrecked 330 none South Channel Islands
W T Co #3 Barge 1922 1935 Foundered 264 Los Angeles
W T Co #8 Barge 1923 1924 Wrecked 173 none South Channel Islands
W T Co #9 Barge 1923 1926 Wrecked 173 none South Channel Islands
W T Wheaton 1854 Monterey
W Whipple Sloop 1880 Stranded sail Contra Costa
Walcott Brig 1863 sail Mendocino
Waldero 1949 Wrecked Humboldt
Walla Walla Steamship 1902 Collision Hall 3069 Humboldt
Walter Claxton Bark 1854 Capsized sail Mendocino
Walter Hackett screw tug 1868 1915 Wrecked Theodore A. Bell Alameda
Warren Launch 1847 sail
Warrior Queen Ship 1836 1874 Wrecked 988 Marin
Washington Steam screw 1906 1932 Stranded 539 Humboldt
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Ship's Name Type Year Built Year Sunk Cause Owner Captain Length Beam Tonnage Engine County
Washington Sternwheel Steamboat 1866 1880 Burned 148
Washoe River steamer 1864 Boiler explosion
California Navigation &
Imrov. Co. Kidd, G. W.
Washtenaw Steam screw 1887 1928 Abandoned 2896 Los Angeles
Wasp Sloop 1865 Snagged Sacramento
Watson A West Four Masted Schooner 1901 1923 Stranded 818 sail North Channel Islands
Weitchpec Sidewheel Steamboat 1904 1920 Burned Sacramento
Wellingsley Brig 1857 sail Mendocino
Weott Steamship 1899 Reiner Humboldt
West Coast Steam screw 1885 1891 Wrecked Gerne 112.3 feet 31.25 feet 179 40 hp Mendocino
West Coast Summer 1948 Los Angeles
West Wind Schooner 1876 Collision San Francisco
Western Fisher 1948 Wrecked Los Angeles
Western Pilot Oil screw 1933 1953 Burned 113 Orange
Western Shore Clipper 1874 1878 Grounded Hotchkiss 183.5 feet 42 feet 1117.86 sail Marin
Western Spirit 1932 Stranded Oreb 77 feet San Mateo
Whale Barge 1925 1925 Stranded 97 San Luis Obispo
Whitesboro Steam schooner 1886 abandoned none 114 feet 31 feet 195 Alameda
Whittier Tanker 1903 1922 Grounded Union Oil Company Lohen, F. V. 240 feet 32 feet 1295 twin TE Mendocino
Wild Pigeon Schooner 1870 115 sail Sonoma
Wilhelmina Gas screw 1918 1935 Burned 112 San Joaquin
William Schooner 1871 Stranded sail Sonoma
William Ackmann Steam schooner 1881 1883 Wrecked Olsen 104 feet 29 feet 144 auxillary steam Marin
William Bowden Four Masted Schooner 1892 1926 Stranded 778 sail Los Angeles
William F Witzemann Four Masted Schooner 1887 1907 grounded 160 feet 35 feet 473 sail Marin
William Frederick Two Masted Schooner 1863 1887 Wrecked Johnson 63 feet 22 feet 42.36 sail San Francisco
William G Irwin Bark 1881 1926 Burned 348 sail South Channel Islands
William L Beebe Three Masted Schooner 1875 1894 Wrecked 134.7 feet 33.3 feet 296 sail San Francisco
William L Mighels Schooner 1873 Wrecked San Francisco
William Sparks Two Masted Schooner 1884 1899 Grounded 59 sail Sonoma
Wilmar Oil screw 1911 1950 Foundered 56 San Diego
Wilmington Screw steamer 1913 1931 Burst seams Beadle Steamship Co. Fagerstrom 990 Humboldt
Windemere 1883 Wrecked Sonoma
Windward Oil yawl 1907 1931 Burned 63 South Channel Islands
Winfield Scott Sidewheel Steamboat 1851 1853 Grounded Blunt 225 feet 35 feet 1291
2 370 HP Morgan
Iron Wks North Channel Islands
Wing and Wing 1889 Stranded Del Norte
Winifred O'Donnell 1927 Santa Barbara
Winnebago Steam screw 1903 1909 Stranded Coast Shipping Co. Treanor, William 200 feet 39 feet 1065 Triple expansion Mendocino
Wintermore Freighter 1938 2010
Wizard Steam tug 1869 1907 Grounded Humboldt
Woodbury Destroyer 1923 Stranded U.S.Navy 314 feet 32 feet 1250 4 stack turbines Santa Barbara
Y F 724 Patrol boat 1945 Foundered U.S. Navy Farallon Islands
Y F 725 Patrol boat 1945 Foundered U.S. Navy Farallon Islands
Y P 128 Patrol boat 1942 Wrecked U.S.Navy Monterey
Y P 636 Fishing boat 1946 Grounded San Mateo
Yankee Blade Sidewheel Steamboat 1853 1854 Grounded
Independent Opposition
Line Randall, Henry 263 feet 37 feet 1767 Side lever Santa Barbara
Yankee Boy 1950 Wrecked Orange
Yankee Mariner Oil screw 1945 1949 Burned 363 Santa Barbara
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California State Lands Commission Shipwreck Information
Ship's Name Type Year Built Year Sunk Cause Owner Captain Length Beam Tonnage Engine County
Yaquina Screw 1881 1897 Wrecked
Pacific Coast Steamship
Co. Ventura
YC 689 Subchaser 1943 Grounded U.S. Navy San Diego
Yellowstone Steam schooner 1907 1933 Struck jetty Beadle Steamship Co. 767 Humboldt
YFD #20 Floating drydock 1942 1943 Parted tow U.S. Navy 622 feet 124 feet 6500 none Marin
Yosemite Steam schooner 1906 1926 Explosion Pope and Talbot Lumber Silvia 193 feet 40 feet 827 750 hp TE San Francisco
Young Destroyer 1923 Stranded U.S.Navy 314 feet 32 feet 1250 4 stack turbines Santa Barbara
Young America Sidewheel Steamboat 1854 1865 Snagged 359 Yuba
Yours Truly Gas yawl 1930 1934 Burned 51 Orange
Yuba 1851 Snagged
Yuba Barge 1876 Snagged
Yukon Schooner 1938 Wrecked North Channel Islands
Z B Heywood Two Masted Schooner 1873 1888 Wrecked Lund 97 feet 29 feet 107 sail Mendocino
Zenobia Ship 1838 1858 Russian American Ice Co. Tilden 144 feet 33 feet 630 sail San Francisco
Zinfandel Sidewheel Steamboat 1889 1922 Foundered Muegg and Sons 125 feet 31 feet 329 15'cyl,4.5'stroke
Zulu Two Masted Schooner Wrecked sail Mendocino
Suction barge 1990 Flooded 240 feet none Monterey
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