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Photographer: Barry Swackhamer
Taken: September 23, 2017
Caption: The Peter Iredale Marker
Additional Description: Captions: (upper left) The Peter Iredale was 287 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 23 feet deep. She was a 4 masted bark - 3 fore masts with square sails and 1 aft mast with triangular sails. Built by Riston of Mayport, England and christened in 1890, she transported grain from the Pacific Northwest to Australia.; (lower left) Descendants of John Porter display a company flag in front of the wreck's diminishing skeleton. The white flag with a blue cross was nicknamed by sailors as the Pens, Ink and Paper Line.; (bottom center) Peter Iredale (l), John Porter (r).
Submitted: February 2, 2018, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p415223
File Size: 3.733 Megabytes

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