As the Pacific was sinking, Sewell Moody wrote on a piece of wood his signature and last words “All Lost”
VANCOUVER — On a cold night in November 1875, Sewell Moody stood onboard the doomed sidewheeler Pacific, realizing that a glancing collision with a sailing vessel an hour earlier, on the western edge of the Juan de Fuca Strait, had been fatal.
But on this night, no measure of wealth would protect him or the other roughly 350 souls onboard the wooden ship from becoming statistics in the Pacific Northwest’s worst maritime disaster. The signature was verified by Moody’s wife and the board kept in the family until the 1960s, when it was given to the Vancouver Maritime Museum by one of Moody’s granddaughters.
Rockfish has been granted salvage rights and plans to recover as many artifacts and items of value as possible and use that collection as the base for a museum and hotel in Puget Sound. The development will ultimately repay the salvage costs. A historical paper written about the sinking states the ship was carrying “prominent Victorians, wealthy businessmen, numerous gold miners, an equestrian troupe, and 41 Chinese labourers.
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