On November 4, 1875, The SS Pacific collided with the S/V Orpheus 40 miles southwest of Cape Flattery on Washington's Olympic Peninsula while en route to San Francisco from Victoria, B.C. with approximately 275 passengers and crew. Both ships continued on course, but the Pacific sank a short time later.
Of the 20 or so people who managed to stay afloat for a while by clinging to large pieces of wreckage, all but two succumbed to hypothermia. Everyone in the lifeboats died. In terms of fatalities, the sinking of the Pacific was among the worst maritime disasters ever recorded on the Pacific Coast. Henry Clay Victor's body was never recovered.
Of the 20 or so people who managed to stay afloat for a while by clinging to large pieces of wreckage, all but two succumbed to hypothermia. Everyone in the lifeboats died. In terms of fatalities, the sinking of the Pacific was among the worst maritime disasters ever recorded on the Pacific Coast. Henry Clay Victor's body was never recovered.
On November 4, 1875, The SS Pacific collided with the S/V Orpheus 40 miles southwest of Cape Flattery on Washington's Olympic Peninsula while en route to San Francisco from Victoria, B.C. with approximately 275 passengers and crew. Both ships continued on course, but the Pacific sank a short time later.
Of the 20 or so people who managed to stay afloat for a while by clinging to large pieces of wreckage, all but two succumbed to hypothermia. Everyone in the lifeboats died. In terms of fatalities, the sinking of the Pacific was among the worst maritime disasters ever recorded on the Pacific Coast. Henry Clay Victor's body was never recovered.
Of the 20 or so people who managed to stay afloat for a while by clinging to large pieces of wreckage, all but two succumbed to hypothermia. Everyone in the lifeboats died. In terms of fatalities, the sinking of the Pacific was among the worst maritime disasters ever recorded on the Pacific Coast. Henry Clay Victor's body was never recovered.
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