by CoastView | Feb 12, 2023 | 2023, Beaches, California, Coastal Features, February 2023, Historical, Land Use, Shipwrecks
La Jenelle was a passenger ship that went aground and wrecked in 1970 on Silver Strand at Port Hueneme, a sandy beach created partly from dredged harbor sand about 1 mile (1.6 km) long and 450 feet(140 m) wide, about 33 miles (53 km) southeast of Santa Barbara and 3.3...
by CoastView | Feb 3, 2023 | 2023, Beaches, California, Communities, Developments, February 2023, Historical, Natural History, Shipwrecks
SS Palo Alto is a shipwreck that now serves as an artificial reef for marine life at Seacliff State Beach on the northern coast of Monterey Bay, about 6.4 miles (10.3 km) east of Santa Cruz and 0.9 miles (1.5 km) southwest of Aptos, California. Palo Alto was a tanker...
by CoastView | Jan 27, 2023 | 2023, California, Headlands, Historical, January 2023, Shipwrecks
SS Dominator is a shipwrecked freighter that ran aground in 1961 on the Palos Verdes Peninsula, about 13 miles (21 km) west of Long Beach and 5.6 miles (9 km) south-southwest of Redondo Beach, California. The U.S. Coast Guard attempted to refloat the vessel but...
by CoastView | Jan 20, 2023 | 2023, Beaches, California, Coastal Features, Historical, January 2023, Shipwrecks
The USS Milwaukee was a U.S. Navy cruiser that in 1917 was overcome by wind and waves close to shore and was beached at the community of Samoa on the northern peninsula of Humboldt Bay, about 7 miles (11 km) southwest of Arcata and 1.5 miles (2.4 km) west of Eureka,...
by CoastView | Jan 15, 2023 | 2023, Beaches, California, Coastal Features, Communities, January 2023, Shipwrecks
The shipwreck of the SS Monte Carlo is occasionally exposed by shifting sands during the winter on Coronado Shores, a wide sandy beach also known as South Beach, on Coronado Island about 4.5 miles (7.3 km) east of Point Loma and 3.4 miles (5.5 km) south of San Diego,...
by CoastView | Jan 10, 2023 | 2023, Beaches, California, Coastal Features, Embayments, January 2023, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Pudding Creek is a small coastal watershed in Mendocino County that drains 18 square miles (4,662 ha) before entering the Pacific Ocean about 2.4 miles (3.9 km) southwest of Cleone and 1 mile (1.6 km) north of Fort Bragg, California. Pudding Creek is also the name of...
