SS Valencia

	SS Valencia in 1904
History
United States
Name	Valencia
Namesake	Valencia, Venezuela
Owner	Red D Line; 1882–1898; Pacific Steam Whaling Company; 1898–1901; Pacific Coast Steamship Company; 1901–1906;
Operator	Red D Line; 1882–1897; 1897–1898; Ward Line; 1897; Pacific Steam Whaling Company; 1898; 1898–1901; United States Army; 1898; Pacific Coast Steamship Company; 1901–1906;
Port of registry	San Francisco, California, United States
Route	New York City to Caracas via Laguayra and Puerto Cabello (in 1882); San Francisco, California to Alaska (Normal route); San Francisco, California to Seattle, Washington via Victoria, British Columbia(At the time of sinking);
Builder	William Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia
Yard number	228
Launched	11 March 1882
Maiden voyage	May 1882
In service	1882–1906
Out of service	22 January 1906
Fate	Wrecked on 22 January 1906
Notes	Ran aground near Pachena Point on Vancouver Island
General characteristics
Type	Ocean liner/coastal passenger liner
Tonnage	1,598 Tons (originally 1,200 Tons)
Length	252 ft (77 m)
Beam	34 ft (10 m)
Notes	Carried six lifeboats, one workboat, four life rafts and one dual purpose workboat. Also equipped with a lyle gun. A 100 ft (30 m) long bow gave the Valencia the false appearance of a fast vessel. It also reduced visibility during fog, as the ship was originally designed for east coast service. She was the sister ship to the Caracas.

SS Valencia was an iron-hulled passenger steamer built for the Red D Line for service between Venezuela and New York City. She was built in 1882 by William Cramp and Sons, one year after the construction of her sister ship Caracas. She was a 1,598-ton vessel (originally 1,200 tons), 252 feet (77 m) in length. In 1897, Valencia was deliberately attacked by the Spanish cruiser Reina Mercedes off Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The next year, she became a coastal passenger liner on the U.S. West Coast and served periodically in the Spanish–American War as a troopship to the Philippines. Valencia was wrecked off Cape Beale, which is near Clo-oose, on the west coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, on 22 January 1906. As her sinking killed 100 people (including all of the women and children aboard), some classify the wreck of Valencia as the worst maritime disaster in the "Graveyard of the Pacific", a famously treacherous area off the southwest coast of Vancouver Island.

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