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NW WIND 20 TO 25 KT WITH GUSTS TO 30 KT. WIND WAVES 6 FT. W SWELL 19 FT AT 13 SECONDS.

On December 4, 1887 the Steamer Yaquina City, owned by Oregon Development Company which ran the Oregon Pacific Railroad, parted her wheel chains and went ashore while entering Yaquina harbor, becoming a total loss eight days later. The Railroad had brought the steamship to the Pacific Coast early in 1884 and operating her between San Francisco and the Oregon ports in connection with the railroad. The steamer was an old-timer in the gulf trade on the east coast, where she ran under the name Western Texas.

The Railway replaced the lost Yaquina City with the new steamship Yaquina Bay, built by Cramp & Sons in 1881 for the New York and West India trade. The new vessel, formerly known as the Caracas was two hundred and fifty-seven feet long, thirty-four feet beam, and twenty-one feet hold, registering 1,200 tons. While under tow, the hawser parted and she went ashore at Yaquina and was wrecked on her first trip, December 10th, 1888.

The loss of the two ships was more than the new company could absorb and the Oregon Development Co. went belly up.