A Comprehensive Accounting of Alaska Shipwrecks and Losses of Life in Alaskan Waters
West Central Alaska for the purposes of this website includes the area of the Bering Sea from Cape Newenham to the South up through the Bering Strait into the Chukchi Sea into Kotzebue Sound to Cape Krusenstern. I have used NOAA International Chart 814 of the Northern Bering Sea to locate the losses. The locations of …
Southeast Alaska contains the second most shipwrecks of any area of the state. For the purposes of this site it includes everything north of the Canadian Border in Dixon Entrance all the way NW to the northern entrance of Cape Spencer. I use NOAA Chart 16016 as the primary charting tool. The locations of each wreck, given …
Alaska has been divided into 6 primary areas; Southeast, Southwest, Southcentral, Westcentral, Central, and North. The 7th list, Other, is of vessels and losses that had insufficient information to map them or put them in a particular area. The vessel names are posted alphabetically in each area. At the end of each letter there is room for comment. …
A P A 8 (1970) The gas screw A P A 8 foundered and was lost June 19, 1970 in Dry Bay. Mapping and Location: Alaska Unknown Comment: Many Dry Bays. WG Source: BOEM Alaska Shipwreck List (2011) ABRAHAM BARKER (1894) Sometime in 1894 the 361 ton whaling bark Abraham Barker was reported wrecked 40 …
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A T T NO 1 (1946) The 3,577 ton 314 foot steel barge A T T No 1 stranded and was lost November 3, 1946 on the northeast shore of Amukta Island. Mapping and Location: Southwest Alaska 52 30 N 171 16 W Chart 16011 Additional Information: Tonnage 3,577 Gross and Net, Length 314.8, Breadth …