The Inside Passage & Alaska
Long distances, poor charts, hard water
Steamers carrying gold seekers, canned salmon and mail worked a thousand miles of narrow channel and open gulf.
Charts lagged far behind traffic, tides run hard through the passages, and rock lies close alongside deep water. Add fog, williwaws, ice and winter darkness, and a single uncharted reef could take a crowded liner in minutes. Alaska's losses include some of the worst maritime disasters in Pacific history.
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Records in These Waters
AvailableAncon
AH-WR-0140Loring, Alaska
1889 · Passenger And Freight Steamship
AvailableATT No. 1
AH-WR-0399Alaska coast
Date not established · Army Tug
AvailableClara Nevada
AH-WR-0083Eldred Rock, Lynn Canal, Alaska
1898 · Steamer
AvailableH.L. Tiernan
AH-WR-0660Shumagin Islands, Alaska
1882 · Schooner
AvailableKad'yak
AH-WR-0414Kodiak, Alaska
1860 · Bark (or Barque)
AvailableLouisa Downs
AH-WR-0917Sullivan Island, Lynn Canal, Alaska
1867 · Sailing Schooner
Historical ListingNeva
AH-WR-0659Kruzof Island, near Sitka, Alaska
1813 · Frigate
AvailableOnward Ho
AH-WR-0658Cape Fairweather, Alaska
1916 · Halibut Fishing Boat
AvailableSS Aleutian
AH-WR-0142Larsen Bay, Kodiak Island, Alaska
1929 · Passenger Liner
AvailableSS Bertha
AH-WR-0913Uyak Bay, Kodiak Island, Alaska
1915 · Passenger And Cargo Steamer
AvailableSS Farallon
AH-WR-0472Black Reef, Iniskin Bay, Cook Inlet, Alaska
1910 · Steam Schooner
AvailableSS Islander
AH-WR-0081Douglas Island, near Juneau, Alaska
1901 · Passenger Steamer
AvailableSS Mariposa
AH-WR-0656Point Baker, Alaska
1917 · Passenger And Cargo Steamship
AvailableSS Olympia
AH-WR-0473Bligh Reef, Prince William Sound, Alaska
1910 · Steamship
AvailableSS Portland
AH-WR-0915Katalla, Alaska
1910 · Passenger And Cargo Steamer
RegisteredSS Princess Kathleen
AH-WR-0139Point Lena, near Juneau, Alaska
1952 · Passenger And Freight Steamship · 52-134 deep
AvailableSS Princess Sophia
AH-WR-0082Vanderbilt Reef, Lynn Canal, near Juneau, Alaska
1918 · Passenger Steamer
AvailableSS Yukon
AH-WR-0657Cape Fairfield, Alaska
1946 · Cargo And Passenger Liner
AvailableStar of Bengal
AH-WR-0084Coronation Island, Southeast Alaska
1908 · Sailing Freighter
Historical ListingUSC&GS Carlile P. Patterson
AH-WR-0916Alaska coast (site not specified in sources reviewed)
December 1938 · Survey Ship
Historical ListingUSRC Tahoma
AH-WR-0400Mitrofania Island, Alaska
1914 · Revenue Cutter
Historical ListingUSS Worden
AH-WR-0141Amchitka Island, Alaska
1943 · Destroyer
AvailableWalter A. Earle
AH-WR-0661Cape St. Elias, Alaska
1895 · Sealing Schooner
























































