Hard Times in Washington: Shipwrecks
Photo courtesy of Washington State Archives
When you combine miles of coastline with occasionally stormy weather, you’re gonna have shipwrecks once in awhile. This photo captures the Clipper ship “North Bend” when it ran aground in 1928 on Peacock Spit, near Cape Disappointment.
October is Washington Archives Month, and this year’s theme is Washington’s struggles and setbacks over the years and how the people of this state have overcome them.
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The North Bend made Ripley’s Believe it or Not when, after numerous failed attempts to free her, wind and currents combined to release the ship on its own 13 months later – the only ship in recorded history to perform such a “self rescue”. She suffered only minor damage and continued to sail for 11 more years until lost at Coos Bay.
Source: Taking the Sea by Dennis Powers, c. 2009 Amacon Books
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