Wreck of SS City of Chester
United States
- Position
- About 37.8° N, 122.5° W (within about 10 km)
- Sank
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- Cause
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- Depth
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Protection status
Location generalised to protect an archaeological site
The position shown is generalised to within about 10 km. The exact position is not published.
Lost in 1888, 138 years ago: underwater cultural heritage.
Legal basis: UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage (2001).
How this was decided: Voydar's protection rules, from the sources we hold, confidence 80%. When in doubt, Voydar generalises the position.
The SS City of Chester was a steamship built in 1875 that sank after a collision in a dense fog with SS Oceanic at the Golden Gate in San Francisco Bay on August 22, 1888. She was owned by the Oregon Railroad Co. and leased by the Pacific Coast Steamship Company. City of Chester had been purchased in October 1876 and brought from New York around South America to Portland, Oregon in March 1877 and used in coastal trade. At the time of the collision the ship was in service from San Francisco to Eureka and other locations in the vicinity. City of Chester was outbound with Oceanic inbound from Hong Kong. Though the ships sighted each other findings indicated the smaller vessel was caught in a tidal current, cut almost in two by the liner and sank in about six minutes with loss of sixteen passengers and three crew.
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