SS Aleutian was a passenger ship in North American coastal service. Built in 1899 for the Ward Line as SS Havana , she would later serve the building of the Panama Canal as SS Panama and ultimately enter Alaskan service as SS Aleutian .
17-801: [REDACTED] Look up Aleutian in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Aleutian may refer to: Aleut people, the indigenous people of the Aleutian Islands, the Pribilof Islands, the Shumagin Islands, and the far western part of the Alaska Peninsula in Alaska and of Kamchatka Krai, Russia Aleutian disease , a disease in minks and ferrets Aleutian Islands ,
34-413: A Central American line of steamships linking Nicaragua, Costa Rica, San Salvador, and Guatemala to Panama City . The shipping service was greatly expanded as canal construction began. The line's heyday was during the construction period; once the canal was finished in 1914 the service shifted to the business of supporting the maintenance and operation of the canal and its supporting infrastructure, including
51-1172: A chain of islands in Alaska Aleut language , the language of the Aleut people Alaska Peninsula , also called the Aleutian Peninsula , leading from the Alaska state mainland to the Aleutian Islands Aleutian Range , a mountain range in Alaska Aleutian Trench (or Aleutian Trough), a deep in the North Pacific Ocean at the western end of the Aleutian Islands SS Aleutian , an American passenger ship See also [ edit ] [REDACTED] Search for "Aleutian" on Misplaced Pages. All pages with titles containing Aleutians All pages with titles containing Aleutian Aleut (disambiguation) Topics referred to by
68-467: A deep in the North Pacific Ocean at the western end of the Aleutian Islands SS Aleutian , an American passenger ship See also [ edit ] [REDACTED] Search for "Aleutian" on Misplaced Pages. All pages with titles containing Aleutians All pages with titles containing Aleutian Aleut (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
85-663: 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 United States Coast and Geodetic Survey survey ship USC&GS Surveyor met them there and transported them all to Seward in Southcentral Alaska . Aleutian was thought to have sunk in very deep water and no salvage had been attempted. In 1998 shipwreck historian Steve Lloyd researched
102-472: A submerged pinnacle rock off the south end of Amook Island ( 57°25′30″N 153°50′30″W / 57.42500°N 153.84167°W / 57.42500; -153.84167 ( Amook Island ) ) that had torn into her. She sank just seven minutes after impact. One crew member was lost when he went below to retrieve his lucky horseshoe , but the other 153 people on board – 39 passengers and 114 crewmen – made it off and survived. A small motorboat took
119-402: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Aleutian [REDACTED] Look up Aleutian in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Aleutian may refer to: Aleut people, the indigenous people of the Aleutian Islands, the Pribilof Islands, the Shumagin Islands, and the far western part of
136-435: The Alaska Peninsula in Alaska and of Kamchatka Krai, Russia Aleutian disease , a disease in minks and ferrets Aleutian Islands , a chain of islands in Alaska Aleut language , the language of the Aleut people Alaska Peninsula , also called the Aleutian Peninsula , leading from the Alaska state mainland to the Aleutian Islands Aleutian Range , a mountain range in Alaska Aleutian Trench (or Aleutian Trough),
153-614: The Ward Line ordered two ships from William Cramp & Sons Shipbuilding Company in Philadelphia as part of a modernization plan in response to increased passenger and freight demand. The new passenger ship SS Havana was delivered in 1899 and briefly saw military transport service (Official Number 96435) during the Spanish–American War moving two infantry units from Havana , Cuba to Savannah, Georgia . She soon joined
170-643: The company's steamers linking New York with Nassau , Havana, and Mexican Gulf ports. Havana was sold to the Panama Railroad Steamship Company on behalf of the Isthmian Canal Commission in 1905. She was renamed SS Panama and would serve a crucial role in the construction of the Panama Canal . The steamship company was already running connecting service with New York and San Francisco . It also ran
187-652: The railroad. In February 1927 Panama was sold to the Alaska Steamship Company and transferred to Pacific coastal service. Renamed SS Aleutian 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
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221-465: The steamship company's flagship . She entered the company's Alaska service carrying freight, passengers and mail service from Seattle. On 26 May 1929 Aleutian was steaming into Uyak Bay ( 57°48′00″N 154°04′00″W / 57.8000°N 154.0667°W / 57.8000; -154.0667 ( Uyak Bay ) ) on the coast of Kodiak Island in clear weather with good visibility when she suddenly shook throughout her hull . She had struck
238-470: The testimony from the Marine Board of Inquiry hearing that had been conducted after the sinking of Aleutian . Reconstructing testimony given by Aleutian ' s officers he estimated the course of the ship just before the pinnacle rock had inflicted its mortal blow. In 2002 he began a side-scan sonar and a magnetometer search of the sea floor beginning at the rock that had sunk the ship. (The rock
255-452: The title Aleutian . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Aleutian&oldid=1080553348 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages SS Aleutian In 1898
272-467: The wreck. "The cargo's still in the hold. The furniture is still in the stateroom ... spittoons still in the gentlemen's smoking room…Portions of the superstructure have collapsed, and almost all the wood is gone. But sections of the deck were steel and are still there." In 2004 the wreck site was placed on the National Register of Historic Places . In December 2005 the state of Alaska and
289-459: Was later marked with a navigation aid and named Aleutian Rock to honor the deceased crew member.) On 14 August 2002 the searchers found a metallic target on the seabed. The discovery was confirmed when a diver descended for an inspection. On the bottom, still upright, lay Aleutian . Her wreck is located just off the southern tip of Amook Island, about midway down the length of Uyak Bay at Kodiak Island. In 2003 Lloyd sought salvage rights to
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