It was on March 19th,1963, during the early morning hours, in a gale off of Nova Scotia, the mast of the famous USS Bear snapped, after the towline broke, and when the mast collapsed, it punctured the hull, and the retired Revenue Cutter Service vessel sank. It went down 100 nautical miles south of […]
It was in the early morning hours of March 18th, 1918, that Alaska’s largest mill. Wrangell’s Wilson and Sylvester Sawmill caught fire. It had opened for the 1918 season just two weeks prior. Just a few years before the fire, the community of Wrangell itself suffered a blaze in 1906 that took most of the […]
It was on this day, March 17th, 1912, that after 33 years, the contingent of Marines stationed in Sitka, would be pulled out. The reason for the Corps abandoning their station there was that the Navy had stopped using the location for a coaling station. Feeling that there was no further direct need in […]
