He also tells the story of the world's oldest continuous shipping line, the trade route from Manila, and provides an in-depth study of the mystery of Oregon's famous 'Beeswax' ship. The author tells the story of each ship and its disaster. Over 200 years of these disasters have claimed cargo, passengers, steam and sailing ships along the rugged Northwest coast. The dramatic story of shipwrecks, groundings, and mishaps on the Oregon coast.

The majority of Oregon shipwrecks have occurred on or near the Columbia River bar, where the ebb tides of the Columbia run into the flood tides of the Pacific. The endpapers of this book are wreck charts. The causes of some early shipwrecks remain unknown, including that of a Spanish Galleon which spilled its cargo along the Nehalem Spit, c. It was found at Washaway Beach, an area known for rapid erosion and whole houses falling into the ocean. Land, and Donald Marshall JuniorWilliam C. Laid-in Newspaper article with no date tells of a shipwreck unearthed by a storm believed to be from a 1921 sea mishap. Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Shipwrecks of Massachusetts Bay (Disaster)Thomas Hall.

Type: Hardback First Edition Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition with a Good Dust Jacket. Portland, Oregon, USA: Binford & Mort Pubs, 1984.

Oregon Shipwrecks by Don Marshall