Colliding with Bk. [bark] Darra which caused a serious leak. Darra struck the steamer a glancing blow on the starboard bow both vessels were going parallel to each other this was about 4 or 5 miles south of Cape Flattery immediately the steamer commenced to leak at the stern tried to get steamer into Neah Bay but was forced to beach her about 2 miles east of Tatoosh Island.

Wreck Report

The British tug Mogul, which was rebuilt at Victoria in 1894, came to a sudden end May 12, 1895. In command of Capt. Henry Smith she had towed the British bark Darra to sea, and after letting go the hawser came alongside to recover the heaving line. In endeavoring to to this the tug and the bark came in collision, the former receiving a glancing blow, which sprung her stem so that the water began to enter rapidly. Steam was crowded on, and Captain Smith succeeded in beaching her in an exposed position about two miles east of Tatoosh light, having found it impossible to proceed with her father. As it was, she came very near sinking under the crew. Several tugs were sent to the scene of the accident, but her injuries proved fatal, she soon began breaking up, and hardly anything was saved. The Mogul belonged to the British Columbia Tugboat Company and was uninsured. She was built at Tacoma in 1886 and had been under the American flag until a few months before the disaster. Newell