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<h2><font size=5 color="#4a4a4a" face=Georgia><span style='font-size:18.0pt'>Wreckage
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<p><font size=1 color="#464646" face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.5pt;
font-family:Verdana;color:#464646'>April 23, 2008 8:17 AM<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=1 color="#464646" face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.5pt;
font-family:Verdana;color:#464646'>Hundreds of ships and boats have foundered
on the <st1:City w:st="on">Santa Barbara</st1:City> coastline and the <st1:place
w:st="on">Channel Islands</st1:place>. The following excerpts from a variety of
reports unveil the interlocking sequence of events surrounding the loss of two
vessels. There were many commercial vessels operating in this area in the late
1800s, despite the arrival of the railroad in 1877. The <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Santa
Barbara</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Maritime</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">Museum</st1:PlaceType>, at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Santa
Barbara</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Harbor</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>,
has an excellent exhibit of local shipwrecks.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=1 color="#464646" face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.5pt;
font-family:Verdana;color:#464646'>• Monday, Jan. 1, 1894: The wreck of
the Gosford cost other people besides its <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Glasgow</st1:place></st1:City>
owners money. Spreckles Bros. of San Francisco have spent $10,000 in a vain
endeavor to raise the steel hull. After five days of a southeaster wind in <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Cojo</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Bay</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>
(near Point Conception), where the Gosford lies in forty feet of water, the
wreckers have given up the attempt to raise it intact. It will be broken up and
sold for old iron. Four hours longer and the ship would have been raised, but
on December 24 the storm began, and the engines, pumps and boilers of the
wreck, which were on the Gosford's decks, were washed off by huge waves. The
cofferdam surrounding it broke to pieces and the bulwarks were also broken.
Diver Martin of the Union Iron Works was brought down from <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">San Francisco</st1:place></st1:City> by Captain Haskell of the tug
Fearless. He discovered that the Gosford listed four feet to starboard and the
main-deck beams were broken in the middle and hung down inside the hull. The
storm carried the vessel out further than before, and it is now in forty-four
feet of water and eight feet underwater, instead of four feet as formerly.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=1 color="#464646" face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.5pt;
font-family:Verdana;color:#464646'>"We have abandoned all hopes of raising
her," said Captain Haskell, "and have even lost all of our pumps and
boilers, excepting one engine which was recovered from the sand by the diver.
The vessel will probably be blown up with dynamite, as the <st1:place w:st="on">Golden
Horn</st1:place> has been."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=1 color="#464646" face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.5pt;
font-family:Verdana;color:#464646'>On Tuesday morning, at 4 o'clock, the San
Pedro (a wreck recovery boat) had a narrow escape from going ashore near the
wreck. The wind was blowing furiously, and the old wrecking boat gradually
drifted in until she was in the breakers. Captain Scott of the tug Pellet shot
a lifeline over the San Pedro with a Lyall wrecking gun, and for five hours the
tug strained trying to get the boat out of danger. Captain Perry of the
lighthouse said that he thought both vessels were lost. Finally, the San Pedro
was got out of danger.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=1 color="#464646" face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.5pt;
font-family:Verdana;color:#464646'>• Monday, Nov. 5, 1894: The steamer <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Santa Cruz</st1:place></st1:City> was in port
this morning and took on the remainder of the Winfield Scott wreckers onboard.
She then moved a buoy for the (Stearns) wharf company, after which she sailed
for <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">San Francisco</st1:place></st1:City>.
Word reached (<st1:City w:st="on">San Francisco</st1:City>) today that the
steam wrecker San Pedro was burned on Sunday night in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Cojo</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Harbor</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>.
A private dispatch was received by Henry Rogers of the California Iron and
Wrecking Company from Captain McKenna, dated Gaviota. Very few particulars were
given regarding the matter, save that the vessel caught fire while McKenna was
away and that there was a boat with four men in it missing.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><font size=1 color="#464646"
face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#464646'>Rogers</span></font></st1:place></st1:City><font
size=1 color="#464646" face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:
Verdana;color:#464646'> immediately telegraphed to McKenna to get a tug and go
in search of the missing men. The extent of the damage is not known, but on
account of the solidity of the wrecker, <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Rogers</st1:place></st1:City>
is inclined to believe that it will be alright.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=1 color="#464646" face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.5pt;
font-family:Verdana;color:#464646'>• Thursday, Nov. 8, 1894: On Monday
night's stage, Captain Macgum and three seamen arrived from Gaviota and
reported the total loss of the wrecking scow San Pedro at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Cojo</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Bay</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>
Sunday night. The wrecker was raising the coal from the sunken ship Gosford,
and had on-board several tons of it beside about thirty tons of wreckage. They
were working short-handed, and on Sunday Captain Macgum, Seaman Andrew Uden,
Diver John Lawrence and Captain Juliu of this city, who acts as pilot in the
channel and among the islands, started for Gaviota to engage more help. They
returned in the night or toward morning Monday and found the scow burned almost
to the water's edge. The crew had left and were nowhere to be seen. They had
been unable to quench the flames, so put off for land in a small boat. Captain
Macgum even at this late hour thought there might be a chance to save her
machinery, and made an effort to scuttle her, but to no purpose. At daylight
they started back to Gaviota and boarded the stage, arriving here last night.
The wrecking scow was the property of Rogers & Co., <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">San Francisco</st1:place></st1:City>, and was valued at $12,000 and
insured for $6,000. She has been working recently on the wrecks of the Newburn,
<st1:place w:st="on">Golden Horn</st1:place>, Winfield Scott and Gosford, and
intended in a short time to work on the Yankee Blade. Captain Macgum with Uden
and Lawrence will leave for <st1:City w:st="on">San Francisco</st1:City> on the
<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Corona</st1:place></st1:City> this
evening.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=1 color="#464646" face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.5pt;
font-family:Verdana;color:#464646'>• Saturday, Nov. 10, 1894: The
officers of the steamer Queen which arrived here yesterday afternoon, said that
as they passed <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Cojo</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Bay</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> they could see the
masts of the wrecker San Pedro close beside those of the sunken Gosford. The
men who were left on board the scow by Captain Macgum when he left for Gaviota
are in the city. They left the scow in a small boat, and the next morning the
lighthouse keeper showed them where to land.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=1 color="#464646" face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.5pt;
font-family:Verdana;color:#464646'>• Sea Terms: Cofferdam: A watertight
enclosure.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=1 color="#464646" face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.5pt;
font-family:Verdana;color:#464646'>Bulwarks: A solid rail, usually consisting
of extensions of the vessel's frames above deck-level and planked over; 15th
century.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=1 color="#464646" face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.5pt;
font-family:Verdana;color:#464646'>Scuttle: To sink a vessel by opening her
seacocks or by cutting through the bottom; 15th century.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=1 color="#464646" face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.5pt;
font-family:Verdana;color:#464646'>Seacock: A through-hull valve located below
a vessel's waterline; 16th century.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=1 color="#464646" face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.5pt;
font-family:Verdana;color:#464646'>Scow: A square-ended, flat bottomed craft;
18th century.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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