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XII. DEATH AND DISASTER ALONG THE HUMBOLDT COAST (continued)
ENDNOTES
1. Bledsoe, History of Del Norte County, pp. 72-73.
2. Ibid., p. 74; McBeth, Lower Klamath Country, p. 40.
3. Up and Down California in 1860-1864, The Journal of William H. Brewer, Professor of Agriculture in the Sheffield Scientific School from 1864 to 1903, edited by Francis Farquhar (Berkeley, 1966), p. 495.
4. McBeth, Lower Klamath Country, p. 40.
5. Del Norte Record, Jan. 22, 1881.
6. Ibid., Feb. 8, 1890; Ernie Coan, "Klamath River, Historic, But Rugged," Del Norte Triplicate, Centennial Edition (1954), p. 3-C.
7. Del Norte Triplicate, Dec. 22, 1955.
20. Bledsoe, History of Del Norte County, p. 36; Merchant Steam Vessels of the United States 1807-1868, compiled by William M. Lytle (Mystic, 1952), p. 8. Built in 1853 in New York City by William H. Brown, America displaced 922 tons. She had been brought around Cape Horn in 1854 by Captain Mitchell. At San Francisco, she had been sold to J. T. Wright, who valued the vessel at $140,000.
21. Bledsoe, History of Del Norte County, pp. 36-37.
22. Ibid., pp. 37-38. Three brass 6-pounders were salvaged from America, and emplaced at Battery Point.
23. Ibid., pp.78-79; Frances T. McBeth, "Major Marine Disaster During Early Days of Crescent City," Del Norte Triplicate, Centennial Edition (1954), p. 6-D; Merchant Steam Vessel of the United States, p. 22. Brother Jonathan had been built in New York City in 1851.
24. Bledsoe, History of Del Norte County, pp. 79-81; McBeth, "Major Marine Disaster During Early Days of Crescent City," Del Norte Triplicate, Centennial Edition (1954), p. 6-D.
25. Bledsoe, History of Del Norte County, pp. 81-82. Subsequently, a portion of the "upper work" of the ship was found near Point St. George, along with the heel of her foremast.
26. McBeth, "Major Marine Disaster During Early Days of Crescent City," Del Norte Triplicate, Centennial Edition (1954), p. 6-D.
27. Bledsoe, History of Del Norte County, p. 82.
28. McBeth, "Major Marine Disaster During Early Days of Crescent City," Del Norte Triplicate, Centennial Edition (1954), p. 6-D.
29. Ibid.; Bledsoe, History of Del Norte County, pp. 82-83. A number of the bodies were afterwards removed by relatives and friends to family cemeteries.
30. Bledsoe, History of Del Norte County, pp. 83-84.
31. McBeth, "Major Marine Disaster During Early Days of Crescent City," Del Norte Triplicate, Centennial Edition (1954), p. 6-D.
32. Annual Reports of the United States Life-Saving Service (1875-1905).
33. Wallace E. Martin, Humboldt County Historical Society, 9, No. 1.
35. Annual Reports of the United States Coast Guard for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1916 (Washington, 1916), p. 236.
36. Ernie Coan, "Sea Takes its Toll as Death Stalks Marine History of Del Norte," Del Norte Triplicate, Centennial Edition (1954), p. 5-E. Del Norte had been built at Tiburon in 1890, displaced 450.11 tons, had a length of 158 feet, a beam of 32.2 feet, and drew 12.5 feet. A similar fate had overtaken another Hobbs, Wall freighter on January 30, 1903, when the steamer Crescent City had stranded on Fish Rock. Wallace E. Martin, "Captain's Negligence Blamed for loss of Steamer Crescent City off Mendocino Coast," Humboldt County Historical Society (1964). Crescent City had been built in 1882, and for 21 years she had been hauling redwood lumber from Del Norte County to San Francisco.
37. Del Norte Triplicate, Sept. 19, 1930.
38. Ibid., Sept. 19 & 26, 1930; Wallace E. Martin, Humboldt County Historical Society, 12, No.5.
39. Martin, Humboldt County Historical Society, 12, No. 5.
40. Coan, "Sea Takes its Toll as Death Stalks Marine History of Del Norte," Del Norte Triplicate, Centennial Edition (1954), p. 5-E.
41. Esther R. Smith, The First Crescent City Lighthouse (Crescent City, 1956), p. 1.
42. Ibid., 2. The reservation as finally established included the small island off Battery Point, and ten acres on Battery Point.
43. Ibid. The light characteristic was changed in 1907 to "flashing white every 15 seconds."
47. "Report of the Light-House Board, 1892," Appendix No. 5, NA, RG 26, Lighthouse Clipping File, St. George Reef, p. 271.
48. Ibid. Buffeted by heavy seas Whitelaw was twice compelled to return to San Francisco.
52. Each stone was cut by a gauge to fit the space it was to occupy in the finished structure. It was then marked with its number, and a record made of the time used in dressing it and the name of the person by whom dressed. The stones were dressed so as to be laid with three-sixteenth-inch joints.
53. The mast of the derrick was 20 x 20 inches by 50 feet in length; the boom of 20 inches diameter in the slings, by 90 feet long, with two stiff legs, 78 feet long.
54. Ibid., pp. 272-273; St. George Reef Light-Station, Cal., NA, Clipping File, RG 26.
55. Report of the Light-House Board, 1892, Appendix No. 5, NA, RG 26, p. 273.
56. Ibid., p. 274. When a course of stone was dressed, it was shipped to the site by steamer. Each stone, averaging in weight about two and one-half tons, was placed in a rope netting, attached simultaneously to the derrick on the steamer and to that on the structure, and landed. So careful was the crew that none of the stone was spalled or chipped. The face of the pier, when completed, was composed of 1,339 dressed-dimension stones.
60. St. George Reef Light-Station, Cal., NA, Clipping File, RG 26.
65. G. R. Putnam, Lighthouses and Lightships of the United States (Boston, 1917), 139; United States Department of Commerce, United States Coast Pilot, Pacific Coast: California, Oregon, and Washington (Washington, 1926), p. 127. Redding Rock was 94 feet high and four and one-half miles off shore.
66. Adventure Trails (Eureka, 1947). Among the coastal freighters recalled by residents of Requa were: Coaster, Berwick, Enterprise, Nanny, Copper Queen, Magnolia, Golden West, Cotata, and Martha.
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