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Shipwreck at Land End San Francisco 1936

The following home movie was shot by my grandfather, Judge Peter J. Cormack, in November of 1936 on a trip to witness the dedication ceremony of the Oakland Bay Bridge. It appears that he must have heard of the recent wreck of the Ohioan at Point Lobos and took a drive to Lands End to check it out. With its dense fog, high surf, and dangerous rocks just below the water level, the narrow entrance to San Francisco Bay was treacherous, claiming over 300 ships attempting to enter the Bay. The Ohioan had run onto the rocks at Point Lobos about a month before my grandfather's visit and they were preparing to salvage what they could before the waves beat the wreck to submission….which it eventually did about 3 years later. You can also see the remains of a second wreck, this I believe is the Lyman Stewart, which went on the rocks in October of 1922. Fifteen years later, Lyman A. Stewart’s sister ship Frank H. Buck would meet a similar fate in the same spot. In 1938 both wrecks were dynamited in an attempt to clean up wrecks in the harbor. At the end of the home movie you get a shot of the Mile Rocks Lighthouse….if you look in the distance, you can also see the Point Bonita Lighthouse guarding the Northern entrance to the Golden Gate.