A Long, Dangerous Coastline

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Publication Year:
2011

ISBN-13: 9781926936116

<p>On September 8, 1923, seven US Navy destroyers rammed into jagged rocks on the California coast. Twenty-three sailors died that night. Five years earlier, the Canadian Pacific passenger ship <i>Princess Sophia</i> steamed into Vanderbilt Reef in Alaska’s Lynn Canal. When she sank, she took 353 people to their deaths. From San Francisco’s fog-bound Golden Gate to the stormy Inside Passage of British Columbia and Alaska, the magnificent west coast of North America has taken a deadly toll. Here are the dramatic tales of ships that met their ends on this treacherous coastline—including <i>Princess Sophia</i>, <i>Benevolence</i>, <i>Queen of the North</i> and others.</p>