RPPC Steamer Aleutian at Valdez Alaska Ship Wreck Kodiak Island 5/26/29 Boat J81

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SS ALEUTIAN: Formerly the SS Panama, she was sold to the Alaska Steamship Co. in 1927 and transferred to Pacific coastal service. Named after the volcanic Aleutian Islands that stretch westward from the Alaska Peninsula, the vessel received a complete overhaul and refit in Seattle. At this time she likely would have been converted from a coal- to an oil-fired vessel. Contemporary reports described her as palatial and she became the steamship company's flagship. She entered the company's Alaska service carrying freight, passengers and mail service from Seattle.
On May 26, 1929
Aleutian
was steaming into Uyak Bay on the coast of Kodiak Island in clear weather with good visibility when she suddenly shook throughout her hull. She had struck a submerged pinnacle rock off the south end of Amnook Island that had torn into her. She sank just seven minutes after impact. One crew member was lost when he went below,
but the other 153 people on board – 39 passengers and 114 crewmen – made it off and survived. A small motorboat took a few of the passengers to Larsen Bay, from which a cannery tender was dispatched to pick up the rest of the survivors and bring them to Larsen Bay as well. After all the survivors had reached Larsen Bay, the survey ship USC&GS Surveyor met them there and transported them all to Seward in Southcentral Alaska.