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- Nineteen Men and a Copper Keel: The Bering Sea Vanishes Off Cape Flattery
A newly built Tacoma sealing schooner is found bottom-up off the Washington coast, with five white and fourteen Native crew aboard. The owners still hope the report is wrong.
- Nineteen Sailors Survive a Wreck Off Cape Flattery
The ship Commodore struck near Neah Bay in 1877, but its entire crew made it ashore, found shelter with a local family, and was ferried back to Port Townsend.
- Nine Good Men Never Came Home From the Seal Grounds
A hurricane off Cape Flattery swallows three canoes full of the strongest seal hunters of the tribe, all in the perilous work of gathering furs.
- The Sudden Tidal Surge at Tatoosh Island
A quiet visit to the lighthouse boat house turns into a desperate struggle for survival against the Pacific.
- The Seal Pup Wars: A Local Naturalist vs. The Smithsonian’s ‘Sense-Keeper’
James G. Swan, a long-time Neah Bay resident and customs inspector, challenges Henry W. Elliott’s decades-old claim that newborn fur seal pups sink like stones, offering eyewitness testimony from Captain Elijah McAlmond that they swim.
- The Sheriff vs. The Reservation Agent: A Neah Bay Standoff
When a federal agent refused to obey a district court order, a deputy sheriff took a midnight steamer to enforce the law—only to be met with a threat of the guardhouse.
- The Useless Life-Saving Station at Neah Bay
An 1885 editorial criticizes the federal government for failing to staff the Neah Bay station with capable crews, warning that stranded sailors would find themselves abandoned in a crisis.
- The Lighthouse Keeper’s Rain-Soaked Exile
A desperate account of life on Tatoosh Island, where the constant thunder of the foghorn and relentless rainfall drove a keeper to the brink.
- U.S. Cutter Seizes Poaching Schooners off Cape Flattery
Defying a violent storm, the U.S. revenue cutter 'Grant' hunts down two schooners accused of illegal seal hunting in forbidden waters.
- The Bold Navigator and the Tatoosh Island Light-Keeper
A maritime dispute over a salvaged anchor reveals the shady side-hustles of a government lighthouse official.
- The Uncharted Riches of the Deep Sea
In 1891, visionary fisheries expert James G. Swan argued that Washington's future wealth wasn't just in timber, but in the massive, untapped halibut and cod banks off the coast.
- The Great Whale Hunt at Neah Bay
Seventeen canoes descend on a leviathan, turning a tribal bounty into a winter food supply.
- A Broken-Down Mailboat Left Clallam County Cut Off
For months, the steamer on the Neah Bay route ran late, broke down, and at least once used a craft known to be unsafe. The Post-Intelligencer wanted the contract revoked.
- A Timber From the Lost Collier: Wreckage of the Montserrat Comes Ashore at Cape Flattery
Six feet of painted stanchion, dragged from the sea off Tatoosh Island, convinces veteran mariners that the missing coal ship Montserrat has finally given up a piece of herself.
- The Shipwreck of the Persevere
A vessel founders near Cape Flattery, leading to a precarious encounter with local tribes and a recovery effort by Indian Agent H.A. Webster.
- The Neah Bay Sealing Fleet Returns
Local Makah hunters report a windfall catch during the seal migration, demonstrating the significance of traditional maritime economies.
- A Battered Coal Ship and a Ghostly White Boat Off Cape Flattery
The overdue J.B. Brown limps into San Francisco after a storm off the Columbia, while a swamped ship's boat sighted off Washington's coast deepens the mystery of missing steamers.
- The Tug Mogul's Last Run and the Engineers Who Took the Blame
A letter from Victoria defends the engine-room crew of the tug Mogul, insisting the vessel was unfit to reach Neah Bay and that no one panicked as the water rose.
- The Great Stink of 1882
When Makah schoolgirls in Neah Bay proved to their matron that rotting whale blubber smelled better than imported Limburger cheese.
- The Beacon at the Edge of the World
A rare dispatch from the remote Tatoosh Island lighthouse reveals the technical marvel of the Fresnel lens and the isolation of the keepers guarding the Pacific entrance.
- A Potlatch at Neah Bay: Blankets, Money, and a Makah Celebration
A newspaper correspondent visits a Makah potlatch and finds hundreds gathered, a wealthy widow, and gifts of cash and blankets distributed to friends and relations.
- The Whistling Buoy at Neah Bay Sinks
A storm-battered navigation hazard slips beneath the waves as coastal mariners report heavy gale damage.
- Cape Flattery Telegraph Line Fails
The expensive underwater cable connecting the mainland to Tatoosh Island has snapped, and the government may abandon it rather than foot the repair bill.
- The Night the Hue Jacket Struck the Tacoma
A federal admiralty complaint lays out a Strait of Juan de Fuca collision, a missing lookout, and a $15,000 claim against a square-rigged ship.
- The Captain's Feud on the Neah Bay Frontier
A seafarer and trade negotiator publicly spars with a rival over the treatment of Indigenous laborers and local business ethics.