Sunday, September 10, 2006

Wreck of The C. A. Smith


N WIND 5 TO 10 KT...BECOMING NW 10 TO 15 KT.
GUSTS TO 20 KT IN THE AFTERNOON.
WIND WAVES 2 FT.
W SWELL 5 FT AT 7 TO 8 SECONDS.

The 275-foot, 1,878-ton C.A. Smithwas , was built by Kruse and Banks in North Bend in 1917, she was carrying 1.5 million feet of lumber and ran aground on the North Jetty at Coos Bay on Dec. 16, 1923. Of the 14-member crew, 10 were saved.

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