Aug 17 2009
Shipwrecks in the Santa Barbara Channel
Our stretch of the Pacific happens to have a lot of wrecks in it. Historically, it was a tough place to navigate especially when there was not much in the way of navigation tools during fog and storms. Thanks to Lisa Collier at Custom Embroidery
for alerting me to a great interactive page the VC Star has put up about plane and ship wrecks found in our vicinity !
This is an awesome history of the wrecks in the Western Islands … thanks for sharing this!
The ship in the picture , where did this happen ? did they get her reflooted again ? she`s such a beautiful ship, what was her name ?I was just wondering , I lost my old ship 750 miles w. of Guam ,in 3.6 mile`s deep water ,it was a old minesweeper uss force mso445 , she went down in 1973,she was all wood , she got a fire in the engine room ,and it got out of control , burnt a hole in the builge`s,under one of the Packard V- 12 engine`s.that`s hard to deal with ,after all these year`s I still think of her .sorry to bother you , I got the two master picture as my background on my computer.thank`s Ed.
Hi Clarence,
That is the Irving Johnson which ran aground trying to get into the Channel Islands Harbor in Southern California. It was an epic effort to get her off the beach. She was ultimately repaired and sails again! More here -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Johnson_(ship)