If you read our history book, Vancouver WAS Awesome, you'd have already known that on July 26th, 1888 a ship called the S.S. Beaver met its demise on what is now the Stanley Park Seawall. The Beaver serviced the fur trade, the gold rush, helped survey BC's coastline for the Royal Navy and in its final years was bought by local who used it as a tugboat for the coal and lumber industries. A reportedly drunken crew shipwrecked it below Prospect Point and it sat there until 1892 when another ship ran into it and it fell to the bottom, where it still sits to this day.
The seawall is presently closed due to the wind and waves from this weekend's storm, and from the looks of the photo that the Park Board tweeted out it's not far from where the Beaver crashed!
Seawall between 3rd Beach & Lions Gate Bridge closed indefinitely. Outer wall & cap collapsed due to wind & waves pic.twitter.com/XP8jEzvLX1
— Vancouver Park Board (@ParkBoard) November 16, 2015h/t to the Georgia Straight
