Search for Lost Safe Tacoma Harbor 1895

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The daily morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.), 28 July 1895.

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https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/...&proxValue=&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=278
 

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Wonder if they ever found it? Want to go to Tacoma?
 

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I did a search for the words “Tacoma Harbor Lost Safe”
and that was the only hit between 1836 and 1963 of all states newspapers available.

0 results on “Tacoma Harbor found Safe”

So if it was Found, It apparently wasn't considered Newsworthy :dontknow:
 

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Nice, this is just up the road from me. Tacoma is still a large and busy port. You would have to seriously narrow it down.
 

galenrog

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Not only is Tacoma a large and busy port, the harbor bottom is littered with hundreds of tons of metal debris from decades gone by.

Too late for more coffee.
 

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Here is more info on the lost safe. I also could find no info as to whether it was ever recovered.

https://www.tacomalibrary.org/blogs/post/disaster-on-commencement-bay/

http://www.gendisasters.com/washington/479/tacoma%2C-wa-puget-sound-landslide%2C-dec-1894

From The Seattle P-I Nov 29 1894
The Seattle P-I Nov 29 1894 - Safe.jpg

From The Washington Standard Nov 30, 1894
Washington Standard Nov 30, 1894 Safe.jpg

From the Seattle P-I May 17, 1895
The Seattle P-I May 17 1895 - Safe.jpg

From the Seattle P-I July 6, 1895
The Seattle P-I July 6 1895 - Safe.jpg

And a side note on "Diver Baldwin" who was searching for this safe, later died while working a sunken ship in the harbor-

From the Seattle P-I Aug 18, 1899
The Seattle P-I Aug 18 1899 - Safe.jpg
 

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