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Peter Iredale wreck

On the same long and wide sandy beach where people lay out, kite surf and build sand castles is the rusting iron hulk of a shipwrecked vessel- the Peter Iredale. It ran aground in 1906 while attempting to enter the Columbia river at night in the mist and has lain there ever since.
It was built in 1890 in England and sold for scrap. It is a wonderful monument to the difficulties of ships to navigate the treacherous mouth of the Columbia whose waters when mingling with the ocean without a delta create a bar of sand, large waves and back currents. This portion of the "graveyard of the Pacific" has claimed over 2000 ships.