After working as far north as Clayoquot Sound they sailed south to the vicinity of Destruction Island and began work on the survey of that part of the shore in latitude 47°33North. While so engaged the wind fell to a calm the swells drifted them into dangerous reefs off shore and they were compelled to put out their anchors to hold themselves off the rocks. The cables chafed and broke and the ship was finally thrown on the beach by a southeast wind and struck at high tide, becoming a total wreck. The vessel struck in latitude 47°56North on November 1st not far from the mouth of the Quillayute River. WA Historical Quarterly, January 1922