The Ship That Came Back From the Grave

Honestly, folks, I don’t make this stuff up. I don’t have the imagination.

Take this story, for example:

“The Clara Nevada is probably America’s coldest cold case file. It is also the largest robbery in American history, twice the size of the Brink’s Job, and was the largest mass murder in American history until the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in 1995...”

We’re talking about a shipwreck!

I first wrote about the last voyage of the ill-fated Clara Nevada in the early 1970’s, for one of my first books. Shipwrecks have fascinated me since childhood but, back then, I had no idea that I’d barely scratched the surface.

It’s one of those rare stories that, rather than fade away, grow with the passage of time...

That’s next week in the Chronicles.

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PHOTO: The former U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey ship Hassler achieved infamy as one of a ragtag fleet of ships, sound and otherwise, that were pressed into service as passenger vessels during the hectic Klondike gold rush. —Wikipedia