Driven ashore through force of wind in tow of S/S Wilmington, towline parted. Weather conditions making it impossible for steamer again to take hold of ship. Weather southeast wind, rain & tremendous seas, night dark and stormy. Both anchors let go, Chains parted allowing vessel to drift ashore. Impossible to render assistance. Wreck Report

Polaris departed San Francisco in ballast bound for Eureka on Friday, January 16, 1914. Towed out beyond the Golden Gate by the steam tug Wilmington, both vessels were set adrift in gale-force winds when the towline snapped off the bar. Wilmington nearly went aground on Potato Parch Shoal before making it back into the bay. Polaris, her 16-man crew helpless, drifted north with the storm before crashing onto the rocks of Duxbury Reef at Bolinas Point. A total loss, the four-master heeled to port and broke up within sight of the remains of the steam schooner R. D. Inman, which had wrecked near the same spot in 1909. The vessel was partially stripped by salvors: Left high and dry on the beach by the receding tide, the wrecked schooner "Polaris," which was driven ashore near Point Bolinas, has been stripped of her salvage by Captain A. S. Hansen and his crew.