Alaska Shipwrecks 1800 – 1899

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1813

January

09 Neva a vessel that sank

1819

Borneo a vessel that sank.

1860

April

02 Kao’yak a vessel that sank.

1861

Nikolai I a vessel that sank.

1897

July

27 Excelsior a vessel that ran aground in ten feet of water on the morning, in the Bering Sea, twenty miles from land. The passengers moved twenty tons of coal from her hold . To lighten her, and after midnight she floated, having broken two wings of her propeller. She reached Ounalaska on September 1. On the 2d they tried to beach her, and on the 3d succeeded. On the 4th they took off her propeller, and on the 5th put on a new one. On the 6th she sailed via T Joger for Dutch Harbor, where we took the Humboldt for Seattle.

27 P. B. Weare a steamer that ran into a bar, at midnight below Circle…

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