The following is a listing of shipwrecks off Coos Bay.

• Jan. 23, 1852: The Captain Lincoln took on water and the captain ran it ashore north of the bay entrance. It had been sent up the coast to bring supplies to military outposts to what was then the Oregon Territory.

• Oct. 20, 1896: The 947-ton, 207-foot-long steamer Arago wrecked at the Coos Bay Bar, killing 13 of 37 people aboard. This was the second and final time. Originally, it was called the Emily and grounded at the bar in 1891. One person died. The vessel was a coal hauler built by Union Iron works of San Francisco in 1885. http://www.shipwreckregistry.com.

• 1907: The four-masted schooner Novelty ran aground in the “Southern Oregon Sand Dunes,” said Steve Priske, a shipwright, model shipbuilder and historian. It was the first bald-head schooner and was built in 1886. http://tallshipsofsanfrancisco.com.

• March 23, 1909: The Marconi, a 693-ton, four-masted schooner, was built by A. M. Simpson in North Bend and used for hauling lumber. While the Marconi was being towed out of Coos Bay, the line broke and the vessel drifted to the south where it eventually broke up in the surf.

• Jan. 12, 1910: The metal-hulled Czarina was swamped by breakers on the Coos Bay Bar. The steam ship drifted north toward Horsfall, hit a sandbar and was stranded in the breakers. Coast Guard rescuers were unable to reach it. Of the crew, 24 clung to the rigging and eventually drowned. One made it to shore but later died.

• Feb. 16, 1913:  The wood-hulled Advent was stranded south of the Coos Bay Bar. Eight crewmen were rescued. The 431-ton vessel was built in 1901 for Simpson Lumber Co. at North Bend. At least one historic photo shows portholes in what remained of its stern. http://www.shipwreckregistry.com.

• Nov. 15, 1915: The 1,588-ton wooden-hulled steam ship Santa Clara ran into a shoal near the entrance to Coos Bay on Nov. 15, 1915, breaking a hole in the hull and flooding the engine room. The vessel eventually caught fire. Most of the people aboard made it to shore in lifeboats. There were 60 passengers and crewmen in all. Sixteen died.

• April 26, 1923: The 5,543-ton, 390-foot Brush, a steel steamer built by American International S.B. Corp. at Hog Island, Penn., in 1920, struck Simpson Reef. The captain, George S. Mitchell was 15 miles off course. That morning, Mitchell had turned over the wheel to his second mate, who had readjusted the course 10 degrees to the west. The Coast Guard rescued the crew and one passenger. The Brush broke up on the reef but people salvaged much of its cargo of lumber, some of which was used to rebuild the Simpsons’ Shore Acres fire-damaged house. Mitchell and the second mate had their licenses suspended.

• Dec. 16, 1923: The 275-foot, 1,878-ton C.A. Smith, built by Kruse and Banks in 1917, was carrying 1.5 million board feet of lumber when it ran aground on the North Jetty at Coos Bay. Of the 14-member crew, 10 were saved.

• Feb. 28, 1929: The 3,542-ton, 324-foot steel steamer Sujameco ran aground at Horsfall Beach. The vessel was once a charter voyaging from San Francisco. Its captain, J.F. Carlson, said he had overrun the distance from San Francisco to Coos Bay and he had turned around the ship to head back to the Coos River mouth when the Sujameco plowed at full speed into the sandy bottom. No lives were lost. Historical accounts say the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Redwing and two Coos Bay tugboats tried but couldn’t pull it from the beach.

The remains are visible at times in the winter and were the morning of Feb. 4, 1999, when the wood chip ship New Carissa ran aground.

• Sept. 7, 1932: The wood-hulled lumber schooner Fort Bragg ran aground south of the jetties. The captain of the 705-ton schooner became confused in thick fog, believing he was bringing the ship in safely between the jetties.

• 1940: The North Bend II sank at Guano Rock in Coos Bay in 1940. It was built at the Kruse & Banks Shipyard in what’s now North Bend, reportedly around 1920. http://tallshipsofsanfrancisco.com.

• March 17, 1945: The steel-hulled, lumber carrying Alvarado was stranded 8 miles North of Coos Bay in a gale. It broke in two, with the stern 100 yards offshore and forward section on beach. It was owned by The Moore Mill and Lumber Co. and built in 1914 by Craig Shipbuilding Co. of Long Beach, Calif. http://www.shipwreckregistry.com

• Sept. 10, 1957: The Dredge Wm. T. Rossell capsized at Coos Bay after colliding with the Norwegian freighter M.S. Thorshall. Coos Bay Bar pilot S. A. Axelson, who was aboard the Thorshall, later reported to the state the freighter was headed to sea with assistance by the tug Cygnet. The tide was ebbing that day, but as the vessel passed the No. 4 buoy in the channel, the vessel came to the left toward the Rossell. The right rudder wouldn’t respond. Axelson reported that steering engine on the Thorshall was reported to have failed shortly before the collision.

• December 1962: The 2,444-ton steel-hull steamer Alaska Cedar was lost on the north jetty at Coos Bay.

• March 22, 1962: The pilot boat Cygnet, captained by George “Pat” Hampel, capsized on the Coos Bay Bar. Hampel was never found.

• Feb. 4, 1999: Captain Benjamin Morgado and the crew of the wood chip ship New Carissa steamed outside the entrance to Coos Bay overnight. They waited for the seas to calm, so a pilot could board the vessel and guide it into port. But the ship drifted north of the jetty into treacherous waters and ran aground about one mile north of the jetty in the surf off Horsfall Beach. The U.S. Coast Guard rescued the 23-person crew by helicopter the next day.

— Information compiled by City Editor Elise Hamner and Staff Writer Susan Chambers

Sources: The World archives, including references to three books: “Oregon Shipwrecks,” by Don Marshall, c. 1984 by Binford & Mort Publishing; “A Guide to Shipwreck Sites Along the Oregon Coast,” by Victor West with illustrations by R.E. Wells, c. 1984 by R.E. Wells and Victor C. West, North Bend; and “Shipwrecks and Rescues on the Northwest Coast,” by Bert and Margie Webber, c. 1996, Webb Research Group Publishers, Medford.