LINER HOLED AND SUNK
DISASTER IN ALASKAN BAY NO LOSS OF LIFE (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) (United Service) NEW YORK, Monday. A telegram from Seattle, Washington, says the Alaska Steamship Company’s liner Aleutian (5,638 tons) struck a rock in Xlgak Bay, Alaska, today and sank. The crew of 135 men and 16 passengers were rescued. The Aleutian was formerly the Panama and later the Havana. She was built at Philadelphia in IS9S, and is owned by the Alaska Steamship Company. Her port of registry is New York.
The scene of the wreck, TJgak Bay, is on the east coast of Kodiak Island, which lies to the south-east of the Alaska Peninsula and at the western side of the Gulf of Alaskh.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 674, 28 May 1929, Page 9
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