General Cobb

Traveling from San Francisco for Seabeck under Captain J.L. Oliver. This vessel was stranded 3/4 of a mile east of Portland Point 01/14/1880? at 8:00pm during a heavy gale from the southeast. The crew were stranded on the wreck for two days before being rescued by local natives from Clayoquot Sound. The American bark General Cobb, Capt. J. L. Oliver, from San Francisco for Seabeck, stranded three-quarters of a mile east of Portland Point, January 14th, [1880] at 8:00 P.M., during a heavy gale from the southwest. The captain's account of the disaster is as follows: We sighted Cape Beale at 7:30 on the morning of the fourteenth, and the vessel stood off under shortened sail until 3:00 P.M., when we commenced making sail and continued standing off shore. About 7:30 P.M. the main topgallant sail was carried away and two men were sent aloft to repair the damage. Land was sighted, but before we could get the ship around this vessel struck. The second sea lifted her over and off the reef and the wheel was put hard up again, but this vesselimmediately brought up on a large rock. The masts were cut away to ease her, and the anchors were dropped. The crew attempted to reach shore by crawling out on the spanker boom, but a heavy sea smashed it and washed one man overboard. All hands then went forward and remained until daylight,