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Nauticapedia Article - The Wreck of the Kenkon Maru

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In 1916 the Japanese-owned freighter Kenkon Maru III went aground on Belle Chain Reef on January 12th during a heavy snow storm. The accident did extensive damage to the Japanese owned vessel; one newspaper account declared that she was "... one of the worst wrecks ever hauled into a British Columbia port". The reef had buckled her plates and frames and twisted her keel for over fifty feet. This article by contributor Lynn Salmon tells a little known story of shipwreck and salvage.

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