Maritime Anthropology by Skye Research
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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