Captain Richard Dickson

Yvonne-Cher Skye's avatarMaritime Anthropology by Skye Research

A shipmaster who worked the Redwood Coast along California and Oregon of the United States of America.

1904

In 1904, he commanded the Pasadena a wooden steam schooner

In 1904, he commanded the Fullerton, a barkentine

26 Dec 1904 in an article in The Oregon Daily Journal it stated that: Bark and Steamer strike big storm Fullerton and Whittier Almost Overwhelmed by Mountainous Waves of the Pacific. (Special San Francisco Dec. 2. The barkentine Fullerton. Captain Dickson, and steamer Whittier, Captain McKensie. arrived today, four days and 15 hours from the Columbia river. The Whittier left the northern port December J2, towing the Fullerton, which had Just finished discharging a cargo of oil, the Fullerton coming without ballast The first day out a terrific storm was encountered, great wavea flooding the decks of both vessels, tossing the Fullerton about like a cork, and threatening to send her to the…

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