Chronicles of Shipwrecks Famous, Infamous and Obscure
No one really knows precisely how many wrecks of passenger liners, schooners, barks, clippers, steamers, tankers, freighters, auto carriers, and other ships scattered on the sea bottom or rust on countless perilous reefs and coastlines around the world. The fact is that the exact number will never be known.
Some of those lost ships were famous for their elegant accommodations or admired for their elegant lines and speed, while most labored as virtually anonymous workhorses whose end on some rocky point or loss in a sudden storm garnered only a passing mention on the shipping page of some now forgotten newspaper.
Whatever the cause of their loss ─ collision, fire, allision, explosion, grounding, storm, or the mysterious unknown ─ each has had a story worth being told.
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Flying the houseflag of the Los Angeles Steamship Company, the sleek coastal liner Harvard, and her sister, the Yale, plied the coast on overlapping sailings connecting San Pedro and San Francisco. The Harvard, once the pride of the coastal passenger liner fleet, was wrecked when she went aground on an even keel at Point Arguello, California, on the clear morning of May 30, 1931.
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