Sunken ship lost 150 years ago, found off WA coast

MyNorthWest ^ | 12/2/2022 | FELIKS BANEL

[Mean Daddy]

They have found several steamships in cornfields in Iowa/Nebraska. The Missouri River has changed many time before it was channelized in the 1940’s/50’s.

[EEGator]

Goonies?…

[SunkenCiv]

[chajin]

A movie about the ship and its sinking would be practically titanic...

[ProtectOurFreedom]

What happened to the “big sailing ship” it hit?

[martin_fierro]

[Izzatso]

Did anyone write a song about its sinking?

(I hope everyone immediately thought of “Edmund Fitzgerald” and has that song stuck in their head now. Just like me.)

[x]

They say the ship had gold on it from a Canadian gold strike.

It didn’t sink that far out at sea.

[fidelis]

What happened to the “big sailing ship” it hit?

According to the article linked conveniently above:

The ORPHEUS [the "big sailing ship"] was just a few years old and made of 12-inch thick oak, and the SS PACIFIC was 25 years old and was clad in 2-inch thick planks. It was dark, and the ORPHEUS was under sail and was also damaged in the collision. The crew of the ORPHEUS assumed the PACIFIC was okay and had just kept going.

[fidelis]

[Deaf Smith]

*As big ships go

She was smaller than most

[Izzatso]

Damn you

[shotgun]

The article said 200 pounds at $1,781.80/oz =$5.7 million

[unclebankster]

“So no one really knows exactly how many passengers were aboard. It could have been as many as 400. A book from the 1890s about Northwest shipwrecks lists many of the white passengers by full name, along with “41 Chinamen” who are not named – reflecting the matter-of-fact, almost casual racism which was present in that era.”

Allegations of racism ‘sells’ in the Pacific Northwest.

Its a big deal to white liberal progressives.

[minnesota_bound]

Great big ocean and great big sky and there are still collisions.

[WoofDog123]

Multiple Pacifics have sunk. there was another one in the 1850’s on transatlantic route. simply vanished, except a note in a bottle washed up a decade later in the hebrides.

you read these stories, and titanic looks like a school picnic.

[Larry Lucido]

[Scrambler Bob]

The gold would be gone before I found it. If I did.

[Scrambler Bob]

I don’t think gold ounces are 16 per pound.

Probably Tory ounces at 12 per pound.