Mary D. Hume (steamer)

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Mary D. Hume
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Built/Founded: 1880
Added to NRHP: August 1, 1979
NRHP Reference#: 79002052

The Mary D. Hume was a steamer built at Gold Beach, Oregon in 1881, by R. D. Hume, a pioneer and early businessman in that area. Gold Beach was then called Ellensburg.

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[edit] History

R. D. Hume was a pioneering businessman at Wedderburn and Gold Beach, then known as Ellensburg. By 1881, he had established a fish cannery and built Mary D. Hume, to support the cannery operation.[1]. Mary D. Hume passed through several owners and a number of changes and reconstructions, and served as late as the 1970s, the oldest serving commercial vessel on the West Coast.

[edit] Current wreck

An effort was organized to preserve Mary D. Hume as a museum ship, but a mechanical failure caused her to slide into the mud at Gold Beach and an unrelated lawsuit over ownership of the vessel dissipated the funds of the Curry County Historical Society which had planned to restore the vessel. Even so, the Mary D. Hume is on the National Register of Historic Places,[2] and her wreck can still be seen in Gold Beach.

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[edit] Notes and references

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Newell, Gordon R., ed., H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, at page 147, Superior Publishing, Seattle, WA 1966
  2. ^ Oregon National Register List. Oregon State Parks and Recreation Department (July 16, 2007). Retrieved on 2007-12-29.

[edit] General references

  • Newell, Gordon R., ed. H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, Superior Publishing, Seattle, WA 1966

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