1906: The SS Valencia hits a reef and 136 people die - Victoria Times Colonist
At 3:30 p.m. on Jan. 23, 1906, the lighthouse keeper at Cape Beale sent an ominous message by telegraph: “Steamer Valencia in bad place.”
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At 3:30 p.m. on Jan. 23, 1906, the lighthouse keeper at Cape Beale sent an ominous message by telegraph: “Steamer Valencia in bad place.”
Canadian Coast Guard personnel raced to help a person having a medical emergency aboard a fish trawler off the coast of Vancouver Island, B.C., this month.
Frances Barkley was determined not to be separated from her merchant mariner husband, so in November 1786, she joined him on an eight-year sea voyage.
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