Outside hull of the shipwrecked Peter Iredale on the coast near Astoria, Oregon. The ship was sailing to the Columbia River channel from Mexico and encountered a storm on October 25th, 1906. The crew battled huge surges and strong winds in the last stretch past the Tillamook Lighthouse nearing the channel. Finally, she ran aground only four miles from her destination. Everyone on the crew (plus two stowaways) all survived and were commended for their efforts to save the ship. Most of the wreck was later salvaged and sold as scrap, but a large section of the hull remains buried in the sand.