On August 17, 1913, the Pacific Coast Steamship Company's steamship State of California had just departed the new Admiralty Trading Company's salmon cannery in Gambier Bay with 74 passengers and 76 crew aboard when she struck an uncharted pinnacle rock, opening the entire length of the port bilge.
Bound from Puget Sound to Alaska with passengers, mail and freight, Captain Thomas H. Cann Jr charged straight toward shore, where the ship rolled to port and quickly sank into 36 fathoms of water.
The SS Gambier Bay and SS Jefferson assisted in the rescue. Unfortunately, 31 souls were lost that day....
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