Charles Gammage
Charles Gamage, oiler, is listed on the Valencia’s list of officers and crew and a victim of the disaster. In different reports his name is variously spelled as Gamage, Gammage and Camage. His body was later recovered and reported in the Victoria Daily Colonist on 20 April 1906, “THE QUEEN CITY RETURNS. The Body of Another Valencia Victim Brought from the Coast. The steamer Queen City reached port yesterday from Ahousaht and way ports of the Vancouver Island Coast. The steamer brought 25 passengers… Among the passengers who arrived by the Queen City was H.S. Noise, a Seattle undertaker, who brought with him in a hermetically sealed casket, the body of one of the Valencia victims, an oiler named Gammage, whose father is employed at the Bremerton naval yard. Mr. Noise says the body, which had been recovered and buried ashore among the unidentified dead, was identified as the oiler by the clothing and the dentistry. The body had been interred four miles from the scene of the wreck.”