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KENSPEED
A ship remembered. A grandfather honored. A voyage transformed.
🏛️ HISTORICAL FACT
The Real Peter Iredale
The Peter Iredale was a four-masted steel sailing ship built in Maryport, England, in 1890 for the British shipping firm Iredale & Porter. On October 25, 1906, while bound for the Columbia River, she was driven ashore on Clatsop Spit near Fort Stevens. A lifeboat crew from Hammond helped bring the sailors safely ashore, and no lives were lost.
The ship was never refloated. Her rusted remains are still visible on the beach at Fort Stevens State Park, near Hammond, Oregon.
Learn more: Oregon History Project ↗
📖 STORY / FICTION
The EVERgreen Transformation
In the imaginative world of The EVERgreen Chronicles, the Peter Iredale inspires the transformed vessel KENSPEED: a rainbow-glistening ship of family memory, hope, movement, and home.
Where the real ship came to rest on the sand, KENSPEED moves again. It becomes a bridge between generations, carrying the endurance of those who came before into the voyage of those who come next. Its name honors Grandpa Ken, whose example of feeding his community and being there for people is one of the first lamps in the author’s own story.
What KENSPEED carries: the Oregon Coast, family history, endurance, memory, the voyage, a bridge between generations, hope, and home.
The historic Peter Iredale has not been renamed, and KENSPEED does not exist outside the story. Visitors to the real wreck should follow Oregon State Parks guidance, check tide times, and never climb on the remains.
Read Our Family Story → · Meet the other characters →
⛵ From Story to Community
The Voyage Continues in Real Kitchens
KENSPEED sails only in story. The care it honors, feeding a community and being there for people, is what Kitchen Monk™ tries to carry forward every day.
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