Before land was sighted, the Carrier Pigeon struck rocks and quickly began taking on water. That evening, the captain, believing he was a good distance from land, steered his vessel shoreward. On the morning of June 6, the vessel was spotted off Santa Cruz, but visibility worsened and shrouded the ship in a thick blanket of fog as the day progressed. The Carrier Pigeon, a 175-foot long clipper ship with a gilded pigeon as her figurehead, was launched from the shipyards at Bath, Maine in the fall of 1852 and left Boston on Janufor her maiden voyage around Cape Horn to San Francisco.
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