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Jul 5, 2023 · You can click on any of the links, just under the photograph of the Umnak Native shipwreck at the top of the page, and find thousands of Alaska shipwrecks. They are listed alphabetically, chronologically and geographically, so each wreck can be found in a number of places depending how you search.
This section contains an alphabetical list of all known shipwrecks in Alaskan Waters. The earliest recorded wrecks in Alaskan waters begin with Russian activities back to 1750 and the latest I have entered is 2017.
Shipwrecks Off Alaska's Coast The BOEM Alaskan Shipwreck table provides the most comprehensive compilation of Alaskan shipwrecks to date. The table is a list of shipwrecks that have occurred in Alaska from earliest Russian times (1741) to the 2000 compiled from an extensive literature search.
Alaska Shipwrecks 1750-2015. This section contains chronological tables of all known, referenced or recorded shipwrecks in Alaskan waters. The seven tables are the product of many years of research by Captain Warren Good and Michael Burwell.
Approximately 6 years after the sinking of the Titanic, the Princess Sophia, also named the “unknown Titanic of the West Coast,” remains one of the worst shipwrecks on the west coast of North America. The tragic sinking of the Princess Sophia, a Canadian Pacific Steamer, occurred in late October 1918.
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Jul 22, 2024 · The remains of SS Islander and the salvage barge Griffson are in Green Cove on Stephens Passage, a waterway that separates the north shore of the Glass Peninsula on Admiralty Island from Douglas Island, about 86 miles (138 km) northeast of Sitka and 12 miles (19 km) southeast of Juneau, Alaska.