The aforementioned MV “Tenpaisan Maru” was the first vessel ever loaded at Pacific Elevators on December 16, 1924 taking on approximately 10,000 Bushels of wheat or the equivalent of 272 MT. The ship, originally built in the J.L. Thompson Shipyard in Sunderland, UK in 2011, was 115 metres in length and had a gross tonnage of 5,416

The vessel operated in the Pacific for almost 16 years until she was driven ashore at Copalis Beach (just north of Grays Harbour, Washington) by a southwest gale on Thanksgiving Day, November 24, 1927 and was a total wreck