NoeHill Travels in California
Photographs of Historic Sites and Points of Interest on the North Coast
California Historical Landmarks in Del Norte County
California Historical Landmark 497
S.S. Emidio
Front and H Streets
Crescent City
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Nearby are portions of the hull of the General Petroleum Corporation tanker S.S. Emidio, which on December 20, 1941 became the first casualty of the Imperial Japanese Navy's submarine force action on California's Pacific Coast. The ship was attacked some 200 miles north of San Francisco and five crewmen were killed. Abandoned, the vessel drifted north and broke up on the rocks off Crescent City. The bow drifted into the harbor, where it lay near this marker until salvaged in 1950.
California Registered Historical Landmark No. 497
Plaque placed by the Sate Department of Parks and Recreation in cooperation with the Eureka Chapter 101 of E Clampus Vitus, July 4, 1982.
Three related sites of historic interest:
- Radar Station B-71 in Redwood National Park
- Japanese Attack on Oregon in Brookings, Oregon
- Wheeler Ridge Japanese Bombing Site in the Siskiyou National Forest, Oregon