Several days of rough seas made for a miserably and stressful voyage and the crew wanted nothing more than to get to safe harbor as quickly as possible. The morning the Sujameco arrived off Cape Arago, a dense ghostly fog blanketed the coastal shoreline.
On the morning of march 1, 1929 the Sujameco barreled full steam ahead to a crashing holt, when the ship plowed into the flat sandy beach, named Horsfall, a good eight miles north of the intended sea port entrance to the Coos Bay. The captain might as well have just ran the ship into an iceberg.
It is illegal in the US waters to remove items off or from a wreck without permits. In the US, the Abandoned Shipwrecks Act of 1988 protects historic shipwrecks from treasure hunters and salvagers “by transferring the title of the wreck to the state whose waters it lies in.”
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