For captain and crew, shipwreck was luckiest break of their lives

Published: Nov. 20, 2019, 2 p.m.

Whatever happened to the S.S. Drexel Victory as she steamed across the Columbia River Bar that day sent her to the bottom in little more than an hour, but everyone survived. Had it happened during a storm in mid-Pacific, though ... (Columbia River Bar, Clatsop County; 1947) (For text and pictures, see http://offbeatoregon.com/1606b.drexel-victory-lucky-sinking-395.html)