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NW WIND 10 TO 15 KT. WIND WAVES 2 FT. W SWELL 5 FT AT 10 SECONDS...BECOMING SW 4 FT AT 16 SECONDS.

North of the famous New Carissa shipwreck on the North Spit of Coos Bay lay the bones of the 324' steamship Sujameco, beached on what is now Horsfall Beach in March of 1929. Her rusting remains sometimes revealed when winter storms scour away the sand and expose her outline.
Bound from San Francisco to Coos Bay with a crew of 32 to load fir for the East Coast, she ran aground headfirst, under full power, in heavy fog about 9 am eight miles north of the bar. Wave action quickly turned her to broadside. With the crew in no immediate danger, they remained aboard. Despite weeks of effort to move her from the beach and refloat her, all failed. Inevitably, the current moved the ship southward and the Sujameco began to list and work her way closer to shore.

Ultimatly, the wreck was sold to Pacific Salvage Company which removed engine, boilers, and all else of value...and left the hull to time and tide, which was later cut up for scrap metal during World War II.

~story excerpted from "The Wreck of the Sujameco" by Ann Koppy