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Andelana

Sailing Ship · United Kingdom · Lost 1899 · Puget Sound & Discovery Bay

A British steel bark (or barque), robbed of her ballast while awaiting wheat at Tacoma, capsized in a midnight squall in 1899 with seventeen of her eighteen crew lost.

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The Vessel and Her Loss

Andelana was a steel four-masted bark built in 1889 at Workington, England. She arrived at Tacoma in ballast in January 1899 to load wheat for Europe, and her ballast had been removed in preparation for the cargo. On the night of January 14, 1899, a sudden squall broke her moorings and she capsized so quietly that the harbor did not realize she was gone until dawn. Seventeen of her eighteen crew were lost; the sole survivor was ashore in a hospital. The wreck was refound in 1935 and lies heavily silted in 200 to 230 feet of water.