On July 21st, 1917, a salmon tender pulled into Seward with news of deaths in the major storms that had encompassed Cook Inlet. The crew on the tender reported that five fishermen were lost and two Kenai fish traps had been washed away as the storms lashed the coastline there. Fish traps dotted the seascape […]
Although the official announcement that Thomas Riggs would become the third Territorial Governor of Alaska wouldn’t come until much later, President Woodrow Wilson let it be known unofficially, on July 20th, 1917, that he had made his choice as to who was going to replace John Franklin Alexander Strong as the new governor of the […]
On July 19th, 1917, the steam whaling vessel Tanginak abruptly turned about and headed out of the Bering Sea after the vessel was attacked by a whale. The attack on the Tanginak took place as it was heading north from Akutan on a whaling trip. The whale damaged the steering system when it collided with […]
