 "Valencia" was wrecked off Cape Beale, which is near Clo-oose, on the west coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, on 22 January 1906.Since her sinking killed 100 people (including all of the women and children aboard), some classify the wreck of "Valencia" as the worst maritime disaster in the "Graveyard of the Pacific", a famously treacherous area off the southwest coast of Vancouver Island.The Red D Line had been operating a well-established sailing ship service to Venezuela since 1839.