Life-Line was a Baptist missionary boat used to conduct ministry work in the Coos Bay region of southwestern

Oregon Oregon () is a U.S. state, state in the Pacific Northwest region of the Western United States. The Columbia River delineates much of Oregon's northern boundary with Washington (state), Washington, while the Snake River delineates much of it ...

, United States, from 1914 to 1923.

Construction

''Life-Line'' was designed by George H. Hitchings and built at Coos Bay for Reverend G. L. Hall of the

American Baptist Publication Society The American Baptist Publication Society is a historic building at 1420–1422 Chestnut Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1896 on the site of the former headquarters of the American Baptist Publication Society, which had been ...

.Newell, Gordon, ed., ''H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest'', Superior Publishing, Seattle 1966, at pages 244, 343, and 344. The vessel was long, propeller-driven, with a 24-horsepower gasoline engine.

Operations

Once complete, "this little ship, under zealot Captain Lund, ran up and down the coast for the Baptist Missionary Society, saving the souls of erring seamen and longshoremen alike."Marshall, Don, ''Oregon Shipwrecks'', Binford & Mort Publishing, Portland, Oregon 1984 , at page 97.

Sinking

On May 26, 1923, ''Life-Line'' was being taken north from Coos Bay to Kelso, Washington, under command of Captain Lund who was operating the vessel with a deckhand. ''Life-Line'' foundered off the coast, just south of Neahkahnie, and Captain Lund and the deckhand swam to shore. The vessel washed ashore and was later covered by the sand, where it was forgotten until 1949, when a bulldozer uncovered the wreck.

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Construction

Operations

Sinking

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