In collaboration with Mendocino’s Kelley House Museum, MendoFever will be publishing their “This Day in Mendocino History” Facebook posts. The Kelley House Museum works hard to document and curate Mendocino County’s rich history and can be visited in the seaside town of Mendocino.
On this day in Mendocino history…
October 22, 1897 – The steam schooner Caspar capsized at Saunder’s Reef near Point Arena just after midnight. Thirteen sailors drowned after being washed overboard. Captain Anfindsen and sailor Christopher Larsen were the sole survivors.
The ship had left San Francisco the day before, headed for Usal. She was driven off course in a heavy gale, thrown against the rocks, and turned over. Anfindsen and Larsen clung to a piece of floating wreckage for more than twelve hours. Finally, Adolph Peterson and Henry Anderson, two courageous fishermen, were able to take a small boat through the heavy surf and rescue the two men.
The Caspar Lumber Company owned three steam schooners. The Caspar was the first, built of wood by Hansen & Frazer at San Francisco in 1887. She spent nearly ten years traveling the redwood coast between the mill and the retailers’ wharves on San Francisco Bay. After her disastrous final voyage, the Caspar was a total wreck, the machinery having dropped through the deck.
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