Steel-hulled freighter NIZINA on the beach, location unknown, n.d.

The veteran West Coast steel cargo carrier NIZINA was brought out from the Great Lakes in 1902 as the EUREKA by the old Globe Navation Co. She was operated by the Pacific Coast Steamship Co. from 1908 to 1916, and later by the Alaska Steamship Co. as the KETCHIKAN and (from 1926) the NIZINA. Sold to...

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Other Authors: University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division.
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:unknown
Published: 1916
Subjects:
Nizina (Ship)
Ships
Shipwrecks
Eureka
Newell
Pacific
Ketchikan
Alaska
Online Access:http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/transportation/id/676
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Summary:The veteran West Coast steel cargo carrier NIZINA was brought out from the Great Lakes in 1902 as the EUREKA by the old Globe Navation Co. She was operated by the Pacific Coast Steamship Co. from 1908 to 1916, and later by the Alaska Steamship Co. as the KETCHIKAN and (from 1926) the NIZINA. Sold to Japanese scrappers and loaded with lumber and scrap metal on Puget Sound for her final voyage, 1937. (pg. 458) 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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