Shipwreck Sunday

Written by Rebekah Harris

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Once the SS Speke, now a rusty wreck

Mar 12, 2022

Written by Rebekah Harris

THE SS Speke was said to be one of the largest three masted sailing ships ever built with yard lines 32 meters in length. The third captain at her helm, Captain Tilston sailed her from Los Angeles to Newcastle in 1904. They traversed the South Pacific with a load of coal from Peru to Australia and headed up to Geelong with a load of wheat. They battered headwinds for days along the Victorian coast. Smoke from a bushfire obscured the coastline and the captain mistook his surroundings and set a course that landed them on a reef in Kitty Miller Bay in Phillips Island. Continue reading

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Lost in Sea in 1963

Mar 12, 2022

Written by Rebekah Harris

The US Revenue Cutter Bear was built in Scotland in 1874 and shortly after purchased by the US Treasury Department. The Bear's first notoriety came from successfully rescuing the few survivors of the Greely Expedition. Its most famous Captain was the first US Coastguard Captain of African American descent, Hell Roaring Mike Healy. Under Healy the Bear traversed miles of cold, performing rescue missions, escorting whaleships, bringing medicine to Alaskans during the Spanish flu epidemic... The ship served in both world wars, served as a museum, was used as a movie set and was heading to Philadelphia to become a floating restaurant when it sank off Sable Island...maybe it was just tired from it's nearly 90 years of service...A record for a wooden ship. The wreck of the bear was discovered in October 2021. Continue reading

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The G A Kohler, Outerbanks, NC 1933

Mar 12, 2022

Written by Rebekah Harris

Off of Cape Hatteras lies the treacherous diamond shoals, and the cold Labrador stream colliding with the gulf stream like raging rivers clashing in the sea. The resulting graveyard of the Atlantic holds many skeletons of ships. The GA Koehler went down in a hurricane in 1933, her crew was safely unloaded. She was burned and scrapped for iron in WW2. Continue reading

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Shipwreck Sunday

Once the SS Speke, now a rusty wreck

Lost in Sea in 1963

The G A Kohler, Outerbanks, NC 1933