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1906 Steamer SS Valencia sinking disaster...
1906 Steamer SS Valencia sinking disaster...
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January 24, 1906
THE EVENING TRIBUNE, San Diego, California, Jan. 24, 1906
* SS Valencia steamer sinking
* Vancouver Island coast disaster
* "Graveyard of the Pacific"
The front page has a nice banner headline: "FRIGHTFUL DISASTER ON THE VANCOUVER COAST" with subheads. (see) Surprisingly this issue is in good condition being from the "wood pulp" era. Very hard to find issues that are not totally fragile from this era in paper.
Complete with 6 pages, a few small binding holes along the spine, 2 small library stamps within the masthead, generally very nice.
wikipedia notes: Valencia was wrecked off Cape Beale, which is near Clo-oose, on the west coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, on 22 January 1906. Since her sinking killed 100 people (including all of the women and children aboard), some classify the wreck of Valencia as the worst maritime disaster in the "Graveyard of the Pacific", a famously treacherous area off the southwest coast of Vancouver Island.
Category: The 20th Century
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