The Farallon Steamship Disaster was the shipwreck of a wooden Alaskan Steamship Company liner, the S.S. Farallon, that hit Black Reef in the Cook Inlet of the Farallon Islands, Alaska, on January 5, 1910. Caught in a blinding snow storm, with extremely high gales, the steamer ran aground on the reef 1 mile (1.6 km) from shore. The ship struck the reef around 5 a.m. when the tides were very high. Within a matter of hours, however, the waters receded and the damage of the ship was deemed irreparable and evacuation essential. All on board evacuated to a nearby island and had to survive for a month in a mid-winter climate before they were rescued. Steve K. Lloyd wrote a book on the story.
Read more about Farallon Steamship Disaster: Survival, History of S.S. Farallon, J.E. Thwaites and His Documentation, The Brave Six
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