| Summary: | Caption on image: 495-a W&S. On verso of image: AL-KI at Ketchikan. The AL-KI was a steam schooner owned by the Pacific Coast Steamship Company, and operated as part of 5 day service from Seattle to southeast Alaska (p. 45). She was refitted in 1908, and was popularly known as the "Sitka Flyer" for her ability to attain 11 knots (p.184). She was stranded and abandoned at Point Augusta, Alaska on November 2, 1917 (p. 243). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966). To order a reproduction, inquire about permissions, or for information about prices see: http://www.lib.washington.edu/specialcollections/services/reproduction/reproduction Please cite the Order Number
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