SS Valencia: The Ghost Ship that Haunts the Graveyard of the Pacific

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The Graveyard of the Pacific has claimed thousands of lives over the years. In 1906, the SS Valencia, sailing with the Pacific Coast Steamship Company, ran aground off the coast of Vancouver Island. She couldn’t have found a worse area to wreck. The violent waves and rocky cliffs that line the coastline made it nearly impossible for her passengers and crew to make it to the shore only a few meters away. The failed attempts to rescue those who clung to the wreck for 40 hours still haunt the area to this day.

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Sources:
Michael C. Neitzel - The Final Voyage of the Valencia: https://amzn.to/3pLpOmW
Wreck of the Steamer Valencia. Report to the President, of the Federal Commission of Investigation: https://amzn.to/3nI44WJ

Video Credits:
Prelinger Archives
US National Archives
Internet Archive

Music:
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Silver Maple - Residuum
Vendla - Flamenco Mood
Christian Anderson - It’s All Gone
Ethan Sloan - Sudden Discomfort

Chapters:
0:00 Intro: Graveyard of the Pacific
1:10 Chapter 1: An Unhappy Ship
7:16 Chapter 2: Failure
16:20 Chapter 3: Gone But Not Forgotten
18:08 Chapter 4: Ghost Ship

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