Their Feast of Death
The history of whaling in Alaskan waters is too often a list of disasters. In 1894, the name of the James Allen, which struck a reef and sank while crossing from the North Pacific Ocean to the Bering Sea by way of one of the passes between the Aleutian Islands was added to that list. The story of th...
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ftscholexchange:oai:ojs.scholarlyexchange.org:article/18181 2023-05-15T15:43:34+02:00 Their Feast of Death Stein, Gary C. 2018-02-02 application/pdf https://ijms.nmdl.org/article/view/18181 eng eng Array https://ijms.nmdl.org/article/view/18181/11812 https://ijms.nmdl.org/article/view/18181 Copyright (c) 2018 Interdisciplinary Journal of Maritime Studies Coriolis: the Interdisciplinary Journal of Maritime Studies; Vol 7 No 2 (2017) 2163-8381 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer-reviewed Article 2018 ftscholexchange 2023-01-04T07:16:27Z The history of whaling in Alaskan waters is too often a list of disasters. In 1894, the name of the James Allen, which struck a reef and sank while crossing from the North Pacific Ocean to the Bering Sea by way of one of the passes between the Aleutian Islands was added to that list. The story of the Allen’s wreck, the hardships endured by its surviving crew, their descent into cannibalism, and information about its master, Arthur J. Huntley, is one of the most detailed accounts and well-documented accounts we have of any wreck of a single whaling vessel in those treacherous waters. Article in Journal/Newspaper Bering Sea Aleutian Islands Scholarly Exchange: E-Journals Bering Sea Pacific |
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The history of whaling in Alaskan waters is too often a list of disasters. In 1894, the name of the James Allen, which struck a reef and sank while crossing from the North Pacific Ocean to the Bering Sea by way of one of the passes between the Aleutian Islands was added to that list. The story of the Allen’s wreck, the hardships endured by its surviving crew, their descent into cannibalism, and information about its master, Arthur J. Huntley, is one of the most detailed accounts and well-documented accounts we have of any wreck of a single whaling vessel in those treacherous waters. |
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