California Unfound Shipwrecks - Know of any?

[Customx_12]

I keep trying to find information about lost shipwrecks off the coast of California but there isn't too much information out there. Anybody know of any stories of unfound shipwrecks off California? Thanks

 

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[Hot zone]

Pretty easy go of it until ships try to cross the bar of the Columbia River, the graveyard of the Pacific! It still sinks them today up here in Washington.

 

[Customx_12]

So my difficulty is mainly because there aren't too many records of shipwrecks out here? If so, that's a bummer.

 

[Hot zone]

Most wrecks would be in and around harbors and Could be marked as hazard to navigation on maps. My garmin program lists the wrecks in puget sound and the Columbia river but I did not pay for California maps.

 

[MrLee]

If I recall this was mentioned on another thread, there are a few Spanish wrecks. There are two inland as well. One around the Salton Sea and the other was up on Lake Owens. The lake Ownes wreck is questionable, but interesting. There was a ship that would haul the silver ore from Cerro Gordo across the lake to shorten the trip. The story goes that the ship caught fire and sank. Could there be bars of silver somewhere in the lake?

 

[Customx_12]

I've heard of the ship around Salton Sea. That legend is pretty well-known and I actually suspect that there may be some truth to it. Can you link me to the other thread so I can read up on the Spanish ships that were lost?

 

[Mackaydon]

Here you go:
CALIFORNIA
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[allen_idaho]

Here is one for you. In 1913, a steamer named the "H. J. Corcoran" capsized off of Meiggs Wharf in San Francisco. While the vessel itself was salvaged, a safe containing $30,000 in gold bullion was lost in the harbor mud. I can find no record of it ever being found.

 

[Bedonkohe]

Pretty easy go of it until ships try to cross the bar of the Columbia River, the graveyard of the Pacific! It still sinks them today up here in Washington.

Made that run out of ilwaco many times. Wrecks are behind the north jetty south of the North Light. --- most are commercial and private boats that did no any better.
COLUMBIA RIVER !

 

[enrada]

Shipwrecks of the Pacific Coast by James Gibbs

 

[Red_desert]

Made that run out of ilwaco many times. Wrecks are behind the north jetty south of the North Light. --- most are commercial and private boats that did no any better.
COLUMBIA RIVER !

Highly mineralized areas are common on the west coast. A mag can't work some places, too much iron or even copper minerals.

 

[TwistedElvis]

Have you checked the California wreck divers site?

 

[Crow]

The original poster posted 12 years ago in 2012?

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