264:(1997). Most versions of the story give the date of the "disappearance" as 1872, which was the year of the ship's launching. It is also rumored that the steamer SS Valencia was cursed due to Iron Mountain’s disappearance. She was under construction at the time of the incident, and after years of schemes, incidents, and complaints of her ability to handle heavy seas and the thickness of her bulkheads, she ran aground on the Washington coast, and sank with only 37 survivors, none of which were women or children. For years afterward, multiple reports of Valencia sailing along the coast, and of ghostly lifeboats being seen floating with the bodies of the crew inside them. In 1933, one of her lifeboats was found adrift and recovered.
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