Valencia Bluffs

Valencia Bluffs (48˚42'00" 124˚58'20" W of mouth of the Klanawa R, SE of Barkley Sd, SW side of Vancouver I). The wreck of the steamship Valencia holds the tragic distinction of being the worst maritime disaster on the BC coast. (The loss of the CPR’s Princess Sophia, in which 343 people died, took place in Alaska. See Locke I.) The 1,450-tonne, 77-m passenger vessel, built in 1882 at Philadelphia, came to the W coast in 1888 and was owned in the late 1890s by the Pacific Steamship Co,...

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