ON THE ROCKS
PACKERS’ SAILING SHIP. r TOTAL LOSS APPREHENDED. COMPLIMENT OF 320 ABOARD, (Australian Press Assn.—United Service.) (Received 10.45 a.m.) NEW YORK, May 237 A message from Seattle states that the Alaska Packers’ Association’s sailing ship Star of Falkland, with a crew of 40 whites and 280 Chinese cannery workers, en route to the Behring Sea fishing ground, is ashore on the rocks at Akun Head, Behring Sea, and is reported to be pounding hard.
It is feared that she is a total loss. The fate of the ship’s complement is, not determined.
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Northern Advocate, 24 May 1928, Page 5
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