PODCAST: SS Pacific shipwreck from the B.C. gold rush found off Washington State - Terrace Standard

Jeff Hummel has been searching for clues to the SS Pacific since he was a high school student in Washington State., 1875, the SS Pacific departed Victoria Harbor, B.C. and about twelve hours later, it was on the bottom. It had collided with a ship called the Orpheus, on its’ way to Nanaimo sinking in the first few hours of a hundred year storm.In 2022 after a dozen offshore expeditions, the wreck has been found and Hummel’s company Rockfish Inc. has been granted salvage rights by U.S. Courts.

‘In terms of the ship itself, it is an incredible state of preservation’, says Hummel. ‘We expect to find items made of leather, items made of clothing, items made of wool, perhaps bottles of wine with the corks still in them., it is beyond anyone’s imagination of what’s actually there, it’s all there’.Hummel says they have spent about $2.1 million getting to this point and expects to spend $6-8 million to finish the project.

Once the recovery of the SS Pacific is complete, the Northwest Shipwreck Alliance of which Hummel is a founder, hopes to create a museum dedicated to the SS Pacific. ‘The Puget Sound area has a great maritime history to it, strangely enough, there isn’t a maritime museum, dedicated to that legacy’, said Hummel. ‘We want to build a large complex with a hotel and convention center. We have the right wreck to be the centerpiece of this project.’

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