Dora Bluhm
Lumber Schooner · United States · Lost 1910 · The Channel Islands
A lumber schooner bound for San Pedro broke apart on Santa Rosa Island in 1910 after her crew escaped by open boat.
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The Vessel and Her Loss
Built in 1883 as a three-masted wood lumber schooner, the Dora Bluhm sailed the Pacific coast lumber trade for the Pacific Trading Company. On May 25, 1910, carrying lumber from Coos Bay to San Pedro, she struck rocks on the south side of Santa Rosa Island during heavy swells and sank within hours. Her twelve-man crew escaped in an open lifeboat and were rescued after nearly a day adrift. Her remains are among the beached shipwreck sites studied by the National Park Service in Channel Islands National Park.
Vessel
- 1883
- US registry no. 157091
- Not established
- Washington
- Wood
- 134 ft
- Not established
- Not established
- Sail
- Pacific Trading Company, San Francisco
Loss
- May 25, 1910
- Storm
- South side of Santa Rosa Island, Channel Islands, California
- Pacific Ocean, Santa Barbara Channel
- Coos Bay, Oregon → San Pedro, California
- Approximately 350,000 feet of lumber
- 12
- 0
- Captain Oscar Johnson
The Wreck Today
- Not established
- Beached wreck scatter identified archaeologically within Channel Islands National Park.
- Not established
- Not established
- Within Channel Islands National Park
Position
- 33.95° N 120.10° W
- General area only
- Santa Rosa Island, California
General area only: coordinate of Santa Rosa Island from the USGS Geographic Names Information System, marking the named place of loss recorded for this vessel (south side of Santa Rosa Island), not a surveyed wreck position.
Evidence
Overall confidence: Documented (75/100)
The precise wreck position was not established in the sources reviewed.
Build details, cargo, loss narrative, and rescue.
Journal of Field Archaeology (Russell, 2004)
Archaeological identification of the beached wreck site in Channel Islands National Park.
coordinate of the named place of loss
