A Comprehensive Accounting of Alaska Shipwrecks and Losses of Life in Alaskan Waters
BASIL (1950) The 28 ton 47 foot steel oil screw Basil stranded and was lost September 7, 1950 on the beach at Cape Lisburne. Mapping and Location: Northern Alaska 68 53 N 166 13 W Chart 16005 Additional Information: Tonnage 28 Gross 19 Net, Length 47, Breadth 14, Depth 5, Built unknown, Former Name LCM-3-500004 …
For the purposes of this website Northern Alaska includes everything N of Kotzebue Sound up into the Chukchi Sea and around past Point Barrow E into the Arctic Ocean to the Canadian Border at Demarcation Point. I have used NOAA Chart 16003 of the Arctic Coast to locate the losses. The locations of each wreck, …
ACORS BARNES (1876) On September 12, 1876 no less than a dozen vessels were caught in the ice and abandoned northeast of Point Barrow. Among these was the 296 ton wooden whaling bark Acors Barnes of New Bedford, Mass. A gale came on after the fleet was abandoned and the bark was washed onto the …
In the interest of financing and perpetuating our work here at Alaska Shipwrecks, I am publishing a series of books. They will be presented in a geographic format with the Alaska Shipwrecks of individual waterways described for each waterway in the entire state. For anyone living or traveling through any Alaskan waterway, you can now …
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I got a phone call at my home in Kodiak, Alaska in late March of 1989 from someone who I did not know. The person at the other end said they were a friend of a friend and needed information about shipwrecks. I had become known around town as “that shipwreck guy” because I spent …
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X-S (2008) The 32 foot fishing vessel X-S stranded August 12, 2008 near Akun Island. One of three crewmembers was rescued by the fishing vessel Kema Sue. The remaining two were rescued by a U S Coast Guard Helicopter. Salvage of the vessel was intended. Mapping and Location: Southwest Alaska 54 11 N 165 32 …