On 12 January 1909 Sybil Marston, the largest steam schooner built on the United States West Coast, struck the rocks near Surf Beach, California and ran aground in a storm. She was carrying 1,100,000 board feet (3,000 m3) of lumber. Two crew members were killed in the disaster. Surf Beach and its adjoining coastal area …
January 11, 1886 – “…..that winter so cold that no one remembered its like before or has acknowledged its equal since. The winter when the Crissie Wright foundered on Shackelford Banks, the crew lashed to the rigging and freezing while men who would rescue them could only signal helplessly from our shore unable to put …
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Castaways Stranded on Tracy Island ADVENTURE OF DR. PHILIPS SAILED UP ALASKAN COAST IN A CATAMARAN Encounters a Storm, Escapes to Short and Is Saved From Starvation by Indian Hunters. SEATTLE, Jan. 9, 1899 — Dr. S. D. Phillips, a young dentist from Buffalo, New York., has just reached this city from Fort …
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“I thought, dear, that you would rather have a live ass than a dead lion.” Sir Ernest Shackleton in a letter to his wife Emily, after deciding to turn back 97 miles from the Pole. On January 9th 1909, after a last dash forward without the sledge or other equipment, the march ended. “We …
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Valkyrie III was beaten by Defender in the first race of the 1895 America’s Cup. Valkyrie III fouled the leeward Defender during the prestart to the second race, breaking her starboard shrouds, but the latter did not protest and the race took place nevertheless, with Valkyrie III finishing ahead of Defender on corrected time. In …
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