Wreck of the Panther

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The American Clipper ship Panther was launched in 1854. It was 193.7 feet long and 1,260 tons. It left Nanaimo with 1,750 tons of coal on Saturday 17 January 1874 in direction of San Francisco. It was beached just south of Wallace Island BC after striking a rock. Everyone on board survived. It now lies in 10 m / 30 feet of water with its hull still full of coal.

Ref:Warren Oliver Bush and Jacques Marc, (2020) Historical Shipwreck of the Southern Gulf Island of British Columbia, Underwater Archeology Society of British Columbia, pp. 56-62.

Buddy: Tom Crisp, Captain Guy Shockey.

Hull sectioni of the Panther shipwreck generated with photogrammetry software 3DF Zephyr v8.023 processing 565 images