The Tragic Wreck of the First Ship with Electric Lights: SS Columbia

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Launched in 1880 by the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company, the SS Columbia was the first ship equipped with electric lights and the first commercial installation of Thomas Edison's new light bulb. After a 27-year career and surviving the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, the Columbia sank in 1907 after she collided with the steam schooner San Pedro in the fog.

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Sources:
Great Shipwrecks of the Pacific Coast by Robert Belyk

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Film sources:
Sensation Seekers (1927)
Atlantic (1929) (also known as Titanic: Disaster in the Atlantic)
The Seventh Survivor (1942)
The Most Dangerous Game (1932)
The Phantom Light (1935)
Rich and Strange (1931)
Mystery Liner (1934)
Sinking sequences from two unknown films
Various stock b-roll shots
Thomas Edison films of the steamship Queen and San Francisco earthquake damage
Pacific Northwest railroad footage
Various vintage home movies

Chapters:
0:00 SS Columbia
2:59 Chapter 1: Electric Light!
6:52 Chapter 2: Earthquake
9:06 Chapter 3: Lost in the Fog
13:10 Chapter 4: Dropping Like a Stone
22:49 Chapter 5: Premonitions and Anger

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