# SS Columbia

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**Created:** [July 21, 2016, 6:33pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/ss-columbia/16466 "2016-07-21T18:33:09Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 6:33pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/ss-columbia/16466/1 "2016-07-21T18:33:09Z")

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Sunk this day in 1907, killing 88 people and all of the children. First example of edison’s light bulbs outside of Edison’s labs. A wreck you can walk to, apparently. Totally fascinating!

Do you have any friends in Hollywood who want to make a disaster drama? I’d go see this one. Or anyone have Clive Cussler’s number?

> **[SS Columbia (1880)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Columbia_(1880))**
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> The first ship to use electric light bulbs, and the first use besides Edison's lab of electric light. Columbia was equipped with four watertight bulkheads. It also featured eight metal lifeboats, one wooden lifeboat, one wooden workboat, five life rafts and 537 life preservers. SS Columbia (1880–1907) was a cargo and passenger steamship that was owned by the Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company and later the Union Pacific Railroad. Columbia was constructed in 1880 by the John Roach & Sons shipy...