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Shipwreck ends Astoria's bid to be “Nantucket of the West Coast”

Published: April 21, 2020, 2 p.m.

When the treacherous bar claimed a fully-loaded whaling ship, its owner chalked it up as a very expensive lesson learned, and gave up on its plan to hunt whales out of the Oregon seaport. (Columbia River Bar, Clatsop County; 1848) (For text and pictures, see http://offbeatoregon.com/o1108a1-shipwreck-ends-astorias-bid-to-be-nantucket-of-west-coast.html)