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This week we travel to the Pacific Northwest to explore the tale of the SS Valencia, which ran aground on Vancouver Island after missing the entrance to the Juan de Fuca Strait. The subsequent ordeal suffered by her passengers and crew took the lives of 136, according to the officially recorded death toll.
*Originally released 11/15/21; edited and re-uploaded 3/20/22
Selected sources and further reading:
Goodrich, Richard J. "The Titanic of the West: The S.S. Valencia sails to disaster in the Graveyard of the Pacific"
McClary, Darrel C. "The Wreck of the SS Valencia (1906)"
Wrecksite.eu entry for SS Valencia
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This week we travel to the Pacific Northwest to explore the tale of the SS Valencia, which ran aground on Vancouver Island after missing the entrance to the Juan de Fuca Strait. The subsequent ordeal suffered by her passengers and crew took the lives of 136, according to the officially recorded death toll.
*Originally released 11/15/21; edited and re-uploaded 3/20/22
Selected sources and further reading:
Goodrich, Richard J. "The Titanic of the West: The S.S. Valencia sails to disaster in the Graveyard of the Pacific"
McClary, Darrel C. "The Wreck of the SS Valencia (1906)"
Wrecksite.eu entry for SS Valencia
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