''Sibyl Marston'' was a wooden
schooner
A schooner () is a type of sailing vessel defined by its rig: fore-and-aft rigged on all of two or more masts and, in the case of a two-masted schooner, the foremast generally being shorter than the mainmast. A common variant, the topsail schoon ...
cargo ship built by
W.A. Boole & Sons of Oakland, California and belonging to the Sibyl Marston Co. ''Sibyl Marston'' sank off the coast of
Lompoc, California on 12 January 1909.
Overview
On 12 January 1909, ''Sybil Marston'', the largest steam schooner built on the
United States West Coast, struck the rocks near
Surf Beach, California
Surf is an unincorporated area of Santa Barbara County, California, located along the Pacific coast within a publicly accessible area of Vandenberg Space Force Base west of the city of Lompoc. The site originally was established as a railroad ...
and ran aground in a storm. She was carrying of lumber. Two crew members were killed in the disaster.
Shortly after the ''Sybil Marston'' disaster, Lompoc residents salvaged the lumber and used it to begin a town lumberyard. Several houses built in Lompoc used lumber from the shipwreck.
Surf Beach and its adjoining coastal area was a dangerous place for ship travel in the time before radar navigational systems made seafaring safer. There are about 30 recorded shipwrecks along the Surf Beach coast.
Location
The
shipwreck
A shipwreck is the wreckage of a ship that is located either beached on land or sunken to the bottom of a body of water. Shipwrecking may be intentional or unintentional. Angela Croome reported in January 1999 that there were approximately ...
is located south of the
Surf Amtrak Station in Lompoc.
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YouTube video with details of construction 8 min.
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Schooners of the United States
Lumber schooners
Individual sailing vessels
Ships built in Oakland, California
Shipwrecks of the California coast
Maritime incidents in 1909
1907 ships