SAILING SHIP ASHORE
TOTAL LOSS FEARED. CANNERY WORKERS ABOARD. New York, May 23. 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 grounds, 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 undetermined. —Australian Press Association — United Service.
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Southland Times, Issue 20495, 25 May 1928, Page 7
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