Duxbury Point, Marin County, California

25km north-west from San Francisco, and near the town of Bolinas, is Duxbury Point; it lies to the North of Duxbury Reef, a marine protected area, so named as the good ship Duxbury was grounded there.

The flyer Best Chance for California advertised the ships intended journey. She was reported to have left Boston on 9 February 1849 and arrived in San Francisco on 22 August 1849; however not before an unfortunate incident of grounded on a reef on 21 August.

Some reports suggest incorrectly that the ship was wrecked but others say that the ship was refloated by the passengers and crew and sailed into San Francisco on 22 August 1849.

She sailed from there in November that year but it is unknown as what became of her.

Any information would be gratefully received.

A brig and three schooners also carried the name of Duxbury, one of which built in 1896 traded up and down the Pacific Coast and ended by being crushed in the Arctic Ocean in 1925.

Thanks to Joe Duxbury for this research.