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The wreck of the Peter Iredale is a popular attraction on the northern Oregon coast.
Not much of this once very large ship remains.
Inside the rusty hull.
This once was a really big ship but now it’s just a few bits of iron poking above the sand. However, the steel masts standing out of the sand suggest that the keel is still underneath the sand.
We hope the Peter Iredale remains accessible for many decades to come!
The bridge over the mouth of the Rogue River at Gold Beach. The town is named as such because when the first white settlers came to the area, they found gold laying on the surface of the beaches. Gold doesn’t hang out on the surface anymore.
The classic Oregon-style bridge posts.
A view from the north bank of the Rogue River.
The stately wreck of the Mary D. Hume. She was in continuous use from 1881 to 1977 and served as a goods hauler between San Francisco and Oregon, a whaler in Alaska, servicing canneries in Alaska, and finally as an ocean-going tugboat along the Northwest Pacific Coast.
The tide was way up when we visited.
It is too bad that through a comedy of errors, the boat was allowed to sink and never salvaged. I don’t think that at this point there is any real chance of salvage. Perhaps it can be preserved in its current state if it were to be raised and preserved.
We saw horses on the highway just south of downtown Gold Beach.
Rocks offshore.
