Friday, March 12, 2010

SS Sea Thrush

W WIND 20 TO 25 KT WITH GUSTS TO 30 KT. WIND WAVES 6 FT. W SWELL 15 FT AT 13 SECONDS...SUBSIDING TO 12 FT AFTER MIDNIGHT.

Launched as the Westland out of Portland, OR...
An early steel steam vessel of the WWI period...
The renamed 410' Sea Thrush ran aground...
On Clatsop Spit south of the Columbia...
In heavy fog inbound from Puget Sound...
On December 4th, 1932...
The crew of 31, a woman & a young stowaway...
Rescued by the USCG cutter Redwing & motor lifeboats...
Captain E. J. Landstrom remained aboard for 2 days...
Until the rising sea broke the vessel's in two.

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