The Wreck of the S.S. Clarksdale Victory

Almost 70 years later, she’s still there—a rusted, broken hulk on the exposed, rockbound shore of Hippa Island, Haida Gwaii.

The 80th of the Victory-class freighters that replaced the famous Second World War Emergency Shipbuilding Program’s Liberty ships, she’d survived the battle of Okinawa. But, on November 24, 1947, while en route from Whittier, Alaska to Seattle, she crashed ashore in heavy seas off the coast of Graham Island.

49 of her 53-man crew perished.

The sad story of the good ship Clarksdale Victory in next week’s British Columbia Chronicles.

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PHOTO: S.S. Clarksdale Victory looked much like this typical Victory ship but would have been all grey with a large US Navy pennant number on her bows. —Wikipedia