Sibyl Marston was a wooden schooner cargo ship built by W. A. Boole & Son of Oakland, California and belonging to the Sibyl Marston Co.[1] Sibyl Marston sank off the coast of Lompoc, California on 12 January 1909.

On 12 January 1909, Sybil Marston, the largest steam schooner built on the West Coast of the United States, struck the rocks near Surf Beach, California and ran aground in a storm.

[2] Shortly after the Sybil Marston disaster, Lompoc residents salvaged the lumber and used it to begin a town lumberyard.

[3] Surf Beach and its adjoining coastal area was a dangerous place for ship travel in the time before radar navigational systems made seafaring safer.

The shipwreck is located 1 mile (2 km) south of the Surf Amtrak Station in Lompoc.