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Columbia (
United States), 21 July 1907. Columbia was the first ship to carry a dynamo to power electric lights instead of oil lamps and the first commercial use of electric light bulbs outside of Thomas Edison's Menlo Park, New Jersey laboratory. Columbia was lost on 21 July 1907 after a collision with the lumber schooner San Pedro ( United States) off Shelter Cove, California. Seventy survivors took shelter on the ruined San Pedro; ultimately 88 survived and 87 were declared lost or missing. The Columbia went down so fast many never made it to the decks and no salvage was undertaken.40°10′7″N 124°20′0″W / 40.16861°N 124.33333°W / 40.16861; -124.33333 (1900 - 1910) -
Sequoia (
United States). The crew got off safely when this lumber schooner was wrecked on the Humboldt Bay bar.40°46′15″N 124°14′45″W / 40.77083°N 124.24583°W / 40.77083; -124.24583 (1900 - 1910) -
Bear (
United States), 14 June 1916. The ocean liner broke up on the rocks within 0.5 nautical miles (930 m) of Sugar Loaf Rock. Twenty-nine survivors made it to the beach. Others rowed to the Blunts Reef Lightship (
United States Lighthouse Service) where 155 people crowded aboard the tiny lightship waiting rescue. Five were lost. The captain finally abandoned the liner which was a loss of over $1,000,000 in contemporary funds. After several salvage attempts the remains were abandoned. (1911 - 1920) -
Tricolor (
Norway), 26 July 1905. She launched at South Shields, United Kingdom only eleven months before the wreck off Cape Mendocino. Survivors rowed life boats through the waves to the Blunt Reef Lightship ( United States) from which they were rescued. The waves rapidly broke the freighter which spilled its load of coal on the seafloor and sank.40°28′0″N 124°24′30″W / 40.46667°N 124.40833°W / 40.46667; -124.40833 (1900 - 1910) -
Brooklyn (
United States), 8 November 1931. Built in Gray's Harbor, Washington in 1901, the schooner capsized and broke in the entrance to Humboldt Bay with loss of eighteen lives. One survivor was found floating on a hatch cover miles away from the wreck.40°49′0″N 124°11′40″W / 40.81667°N 124.19444°W / 40.81667; -124.19444 (1921 - 1950) -
Corona
United States, 1 March 1907. Built in 1888 in Philadelphia, this passenger ship wrecked at the entrance to Humboldt Bay. One person died in the first boat lowered, the rest of the 154 people on board waited for rescue by the life-saving station and were saved. The ship rotted where it came aground. Her wreck could be seen until at least the early 1970s.40°45′50″N 124°14′54″W / 40.76389°N 124.24833°W / 40.76389; -124.24833 (1900 - 1910)
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