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He was the nephew of Captain James Caughell.

1906

In 1906, he commanded the Berwick

06 Jun 1906, in an article in The Oregon Daily Journal it stated that: WAS IN NO DANCER. Vessel’s Open lease Of Seaside. Captain CaughelL master of the gasoline schooner Berwick, reports that on his last trip from Portland to Rogue River he was forced to seek shelter. In the lee of Tillamook heads while a southeaster was raging on the mouth of the Columbia river and when he reaehed Astoria the other day the pilots there told him that he had stirred up a great excitement by anchoring as close to the beach off Seaside. “We were in no danger at all off the beach.” said Captain Caughell. In speaking of his experience, “but the sea was very rough outside the heads and so we stood in close to shore and dropped anchor…