by CoastView | Feb 17, 2023 | 2023, Beaches, California, Coastal Features, Historical, Shipwrecks
King Philip was a clipper ship that wrecked in 1878 on Ocean Beach, on the west coast of the San Francisco Peninsula in the Sunset District, about 1 mile (1.6 km) south of Golden Gate Park and 7 miles (11 km) west-southwest of downtown San Francisco, California. Ocean...
by CoastView | Feb 14, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Land Use, Natural History, Shipwrecks
Twin Hills is a Yup’ik village situated on the left bank of the Togiak River at the head of Togiak Bay, about 130 miles (210 km) southeast of Bethel and 64 miles (103 km) west of Dillingham, Alaska. In 1880, Ivan Petrof recorded two villages about 7 miles (11 km)...
by CoastView | Feb 12, 2023 | 2023, Beaches, California, Coastal Features, 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 11, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Coastal Features, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History, Shipwrecks
The steamship Yukon, bound from Goodnews Bay on the Kuskokwim River to Seattle in 1913, ran aground in fog and became a total loss on the northwest end of Sanak Island on what is now called Yukon Reef, about 156 miles (252 km) east-northeast of Dutch Harbor and 48...
by CoastView | Feb 3, 2023 | 2023, Beaches, California, Communities, Developments, 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 | Feb 1, 2023 | 2023, Beaches, Coastal Features, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Oregon, Shipwrecks
New Carissa was a freighter 639 feet (195 m) in length that grounded on North Spit in 1999, causing an oil spill about 5 miles (8 km) northwest of Coos Bay and 4 miles (6.5 km) west of the community of North Bend, Oregon. The U.S. Navy set explosives on the ship to...
