Comet
Lumber Schooner · United States · Lost 1911 · The Channel Islands
The intact bow of a wooden lumber schooner, wrecked at San Miguel Island around 1911, still emerges from the sand at Simonton Cove after winter storms.
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The Vessel and Her Loss
The three-masted lumber schooner Comet wrecked at Simonton Cove on San Miguel Island around 1911 while carrying lumber down the Pacific coast. Her bow section, remarkably intact with deck machinery still mounted, is periodically exposed by winter storms and buried again by drifting sand. In 1999, National Park Service archaeologists carried out a detailed five-day documentation of the remains.
Vessel
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- Wood
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- Sail
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Loss
- January 1, 1911
- Grounding
- Simonton Cove, San Miguel Island, California
- Pacific Ocean, Santa Barbara Channel
- Pacific Northwest → California
- Lumber
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The Wreck Today
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- Bow section substantially intact and exposed on the beach at Simonton Cove; machinery still mounted on the main and forecastle decks; periodically buried and re-exposed by winter storms.
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- 1999 (documentation); first recorded modern exposure 1984
- Within Channel Islands National Park
Position
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- Position withheld to protect the site
- Simonton Cove, San Miguel Island, California
Park Service documentation of archaeological beach sites does not publish exact coordinates.
Evidence
Overall confidence: Partially documented (70/100)
Exact date of loss, builder, and dimensions are not established in the sources reviewed.
National Park Service, Submerged Resources Center
Site documentation, condition, 1999 survey, cargo trade.
Loss date, cargo, cause of wreck.
