Morning Star (bark)
French bark, stranded off Sand Island, with a loss of one life, July 11, 1849. James A. Gibbs, Jr. Pacific Graveyard. A narrative of the ships lost where the Columbia River meets the Pacific Ocean. Portland: Binfords and Mort, 1950, p. 153-190
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Morning Star (bark)
238.09 ton vessel. Built at Darthmouth in 1853. Albert C. Church. Whale Ships and Whaling, 1938., p. 165.
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Morning Star (bark)
French vessel standed off Sand Island with a loss of one life. July 11, 1849. Gibbs, Pacific Graveyard, p. 29, 173. Murray C. Morgan. The Columbia, p. 268.
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Morning Star (bark)
An important wreck occurring in 1849 was that of the French bark Morning Star, Capt.
Francis Menes, from Havre de Grace for the Columbia River. She left Havre in December, 1848, and arrived at the bar in July, 1849. She had waited seven days for a pilot, and, as the captain of an Americau brig told Captain Menes that Pilot Reeves had been drowned in San Francisco Bay, he attempted to sail in, July 11th. He had crossed with the Morning Star in 1847, but the tortuous channel had changed, and she struck while drawing sixteen feet of water and thumped for nine hours. All the lifeboats were lost in, attempting to lower them, and one man was drowned. The keel and rudder broke off, aud she finally drifted into Baker's Bay.
Lattie, the river pilot, took out some Indians, and with their help and that of the crews from the bark John W. Cater, brig Undine and ship Walpole, who worked with her for twenty hours, pumping and bailing, and with the assistance of a box rudder, finally reached Portland. Her cargo was saved and
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James A. Gibbs (c.1925 – April 30, 2010) was an author and lighthouse keeper.
He was one of the lighthouse keepers at Tillamook Rock Light for a year beginning in 1945. In 1948, Gibbs was one of the five founders of the Puget Sound Maritime Historical Society. He built and lived in Cleft of the Rock Light near Yachats, Oregon, until his death on April 30, 2010.
Works :
James Gibbs, Jr. (1950, 1964, 1993).
Pacific Graveyard: A Narrative of the Ships Lost Where the Columbia River Meets the Pacific Ocean. ISBN 978-0-8323-0481-1.
