Pacific North Current

The waters west of North America received vessels carried far from Japan by the North Pacific's winds and currents. In 1815 the brig Forester rescued Oguri Jūkichi and two companions from the disabled Tokujō-maru near California, after a drift of more than a year. Another Japanese ship, the Hōjun-maru, reached the northwest coast in 1834 after its crew endured months on rice and rainwater.