Mrs. Frank Campbell

Mrs. Frank Campbell, second class passenger for Seattle was travelling with her husband and daughter Ruby Gordon age 16, step daughter to Frank Campbell.  The three departed the Valencia on lifeboat No.3, the fifth lifeboat launched during the first hour of the wreck.  The previous four lifeboats launched resulted in almost all the occupants drowning.  With 15 on board, the lifeboat managed to get away from the Valencia for a short distance with fifteen people on board.  After one of the oars was lost, the boat veered towards the surf and flipped over, drowning eight.  Somehow seven men survived and ended up along the shore at the base of near vertical cliffs about 250 metres north of the Valencia.  The seven survivors were Frank Campbell, Tony Brown, George Billikos, Yosuki Hosoda, Mike Stone, Charles Samuels, and Albert Willis.  Mrs. Campbell and Ruby Gordon were never seen again.