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Valencia survivor recalls Valencia wreck ordeal off Vancouver Island
Cornelius Allison recounts the Valencia disaster of January 22 1906 off Vancouver Island. He describes boarding in San Francisco, the wreck after striking rocks, chaotic lifeboat chaos, raft rescue, heroism of crew and captain, a Greek fireman, and eventual rescue by a steamship reaching Seattle with survivors.
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Cornelius Allison
Vancouver Island
Naval Veterans of Minnesota
D. M. Rand
Rand
Fred Erickson
San Francisco
Seattle
Golden Gate
Alaska
Frisco
America
Dame Fortune
Victoria
U. S. Navy
Bow State Rooms
Volunters
Soner
Fred
Steamship Company
St. Paul
Great Lakes
Vancouver
Puget Sound