Stranded in Fog. Crew taken ashore by Life Saving crew. Wreck Report

The Caspar Lumber Company owned Samoa when she wrecked. On January 28, 1913, Samoa was en route to San Francisco from Caspar with a load of lumber and railroad ties when she ran aground in a thick fog on Ten-Mile Beach, 600 yards south from the United States Lifesaving Service station on the beach. The keeper of the station heard Samoa's whistle as "she made her way slowly down the coast...." A frantic series of blasts from the whistle alerted the lifesavers that Samoa was in trouble, and they hurried down the beach with their lifesaving cart and breehes buoy. Shortly after the lifesavers arrived abreast of the steamer the fog lifted a little, disclosing her, bow on, in the breakers about 300 yards off the beach. The seas were sweeping entirely over her and the inshore surf was already filled with wreckage fro her riven deckload of lumber. After two unsuccessful tries, a breeches-buoy line was shot within reach of the stranded sailors on Samoa and they were pulled in over the surf to safety by the life-savers and several nearby ranchers. Her keel broken, Samoa washed into shore, twisting and breaking up. Her bow wrenched free and the hull broken into fragments, Samoa disappeared beneath the sands of Ten-Mile Beach. Delgado & Huller [2]