||| FROM JOE REIGEL |||
Joe Reigel has released a second book on local history, titled Shipwrecks of the San Juans: A History of Maritime Disaster in the San Juan Islands.
A total of twenty-six shipwrecks and eight World War II-era naval air crashes are examined, with several incredible stories of survival and heroism being brought to light for the first time in over a century.
Stories, for example, like that of the schooner Tolo, whose survivors clung to the capsized hull for fifty-six hours in the rain, wind, and waves; the bark Union, whose anchor became the mascot of Sehome High School; the rum-runner Mizpah, which vanished with sixty cases of whiskey in 1922; and, of course, more well-known wrecks like the Clallam, the Bunker Hill disaster, and the infamous Elwha incident of 1983.
Shipwrecks of the San Juans is available to purchase on Amazon, and will soon be available in local stores alongside Reigel’s Unusual Orcas Island.
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