Thirteen years after the steamship Portland sailed into Seattle, laden With two tons of gold and sparking the gold rush in Alaska on July 17th 1897, the vessel would once again make the headlines. On November 12th 1910 The 192 foot vessel struck a submerged rock in Katalla Bay near the mouth of the Katalla […]
On November 11th 1919, one year after the sinking of the Princess Sophia at Vanderbilt Reef in Lynn Canal the Deep Sea Salvage Company attempted to salvage the liner but ultimately abandoned the salvage efforts. A similar effort was made in 1920, but this one also failed when the company went bankrupt. Princess Sophia was […]
Nineteen years after the reindeer were introduced to the Seward Peninsula, Pacific Cold Storage in Nome spearheaded a move condemning the use of reindeer meat on November 10th 1911. They spread the rumor that the reindeer had tapeworms and thus were unfit to eat. One doctor in the area agreed. But other Local doctors denied […]
One of Alaska’s foremost aviation pioneers, Carl Ben Eielson, and his mechanic Earl Borland, perished in a crash at North Cape in Siberia on November 9th 1929. At the time of the crash, they had been working to evacuate furs and personnel from the cargo vessel Nanook, which was trapped in the ice. During his […]