1882:

At 9 a.m during a thick snowstorm, the schooner A .F. Ames of Rockland, Maine, was bound from Perth Amboy to Boston with a crew of seven persons.  She stranded during a thick snowstorm five hundred yards east of Race Point and one mile and three-quarters west of Station Number 6, Second District.  The vessel was discovered by the patrol and the life-saving crew boarded her at 9:15 o’clock.  She was leaking and pounding heavily.  The pumps were manned to keep the water down.  The vessel was floated on the rising tide and made sail.  She was piloted into deep water.  The leak, however, was gaining rapidly.  After consulting with the captain, the vessel was put on the beach.  The crew was sheltered at the station until the 13th when the keeper sent them to Boston.

1991:

After receiving a distress call from the sinking fishing trawler Sea King off of Peacock Spit, near the mouth of the Columbia River, a Coast Guard helicopter and the motor lifeboat [MLB] 52314 "Triumph II" from the Cape Disappointment Lifeboat Station were dispatched to the rescue.  The crew of the helicopter transferred three of the Triumph II's crew and several pumps to the sinking trawler despite the 20-foot seas.  They then began hoisting the trawler's crew to safety and managed to hoist one safely.  On the next attempt, however, the rescue basket's cable became entangled in the trawler's rigging and snapped, injuring the fisherman being hoisted.  Another Coast Guardsman from the Triumph II jumped onto the trawler to assist him.  The Triumph II then took the Sea King, with the emergency pumps operating, under tow.  But while waiting for the tide to ebb before heading in the Sea King sank.  The Triumph II's crew pulled the four Coast Guard personnel and two of the trawler's remaining crew out of the water.  Nevertheless, one of the Coast Guard personnel and one of the trawler's crew succumbed.  Another crewman from the Sea King went down with the trawler and was not recovered.