AH-WR-0412

Jane L. Stanford

Steam Schooner · United States · Lost 1929 · San Francisco & the Northern California Coast

A wooden steam schooner named for Jane Lathrop Stanford, lost to fire off the Northern California coast.

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Artistic recreation based on recorded historical documents. See the documented evidence.

Interpretive Reconstruction, drawn to convey the vessel's era, type and general form. See the documented evidence.

The Vessel and Her Loss

The Jane L. Stanford was a wooden steam schooner engaged in the Pacific Coast lumber trade, named for the co-founder of Stanford University. She caught fire at sea off the Northern California coast and was lost. Precise details of her builder, dimensions, and the circumstances surrounding the fire are not firmly established in the sources reviewed. No confirmed casualty figures are available.

Vessel

Built: Not established
Builder: Not established
Yard: Not established
Material: Wood
Length: Not established
Beam: Not established
Tonnage: Not established
Propulsion: Steam, single screw
Owners: Not established

Loss

Date: 1929
Cause: Fire
Location: Off the Northern California coast
Water: Pacific Ocean
Voyage: Not established
Cargo: Not established
Aboard: Not established
Lives lost: Not established
Master: Not established

The Wreck Today

Depth: Not established
Condition: Not established
Orientation: Not established
Discovered: Not established
Protection: Not established

Position

Coordinates: Not established
Accuracy: Position not established
Nearest: Northern California coast
Region: San Francisco & the Northern California Coast

Checked government (TARP/THC/BOEM/NOAA/state reef program), museum, academic, and dive-resource sources; found only descriptive loss-location narratives with no published latitude/longitude for the wreck site.