McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 270

Title: McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 270
Description: Caption: "S.S. Santa Rosa." Wreck of the S.S. Santa Rosa off Point Arguello in Santa Barbara County. The steamship ran aground on July 6, 1911. Unable to break free, the turbulent waters eventually cracked the ship in half. All two hundred passengers got to shore alive, the only fatalities coming when four sailors were accidentally thrown out of a lifeboat by rough seas while attempting to establish a land line to stabilize the wreck.
Contributor: Audrey Fullerton-Samora of Sacramento, great niece of William and Grace McCarthy, donated the William M. McCarthy Photograph Collection to the California State Archives in 1996.
Coverage: Point Arguello, Santa Barbara County, California
Date: 1911
Format: JPEG, scanned at 400 DPI, 24-bit color
Identifier: 96-07-08-alb05-270
Language: English
Publisher: California State Archives, a division of the California Secretary of State's Office
Source: Image of an item within the William M. McCarthy Photograph Collection (96-07-08)
Subject: Wreck of the S.S. Santa Rosa, Point Arguello, Santa Barbara County, California
Type: Still Image