Ship Details

Caoba

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Registry #1 162610 (US) Registry #2 Registry #3
IMO# MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1905 Coaster (III) Name 6
Name 2 1918 Caoba Name 7
Name 3 Name 8
Name 4 Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1905 Place Aberdeen Area WA Country USA
 
Designer (nk) Measurement (imp) ? x ? x ?
Builder Lindstrom Shipbuilding, Aberdeen WA Measurement (metric) ?m x ?m x ?m
Hull Wood Displacement
Gross Tonnage 579 Type 1 Schooner
Registered Tonnage Type 2
Engine steam engine Engine Manufacture (nk)
Repower Propulsion Screw
Rebuilds Call Sign
Pendant  # Masters Captain Alfred Sandvig.
 
Owner(s)
In 1905 she was owned by C.H. Higgins. In 1925 she was owned by Sudden & Christensen, San Francisco CA USA.
 
Fate Registry closed Date 1925-02-05
 
Named Features
Significance of Name
 
Anecdotes
The Caoba was rumored to have been working with the Canadian rum runner Pescawha. In February 1925 this vessel sank in heavy weather 20nm off Astoria, Oregon. Her wreck drifted ashore on the beach five miles north of Ocean Park WA USA. On February 5, 1925 this vessel was outbound from Willapa Harbor for San Francisco with a cargo of lumber. After losing her engine the crew abandoned ship in two boats. One boat was picked up by the John Cudahy and the other by the rumrunner Pesawha which, on landing the survivors in Astoria her crew was seized by the US Coast Guard Cutter Algonquin 6.6miles off the coast of Washington. this vessel was carrying 1075 cases of liquor. The crew jailed and the ship seized. Her master , Captain Robert Pamphlet, was jailed for smuggling alcohol.
 
References
Miles, Fraser (1992); Merchant Vessels of the United States (1910); Gibbs, Jim (1986) Peril At Sea; Schiffer Publishing Ltd. Atglen PA USA; Don Marshall (1984) Oregon Shipwrecks;
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