Northwest History. Alaska. Science. United States.

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1923
• Subjects: Alaska; Ships; Ship building; Northwest; Pacific > History > 20th Century; Alaska Point; Anchorage; Arctic; Pacific; Barrow; Point Barrow
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/101578

First Ship in 6 Years Raches Far North Alaska First Ship in 6 Years Reaches Far North Alaska POINT BARROW. Alaska, July 21. (AP)—First to pierce the Arctic isolation of Point Barrow for six consecutive years, , the motorship Patterson was plunging through the ice to the eastward of here today. The ship picked its way through the moving ice floes off the Point Barrow anchorage Wednesday and discharged mail and fruit before continuing to remote and sparcely settled trading posts farther east. The Patterson took advantage of the first opportunity to reach Point Barrow, the ice having sutrted to move only the day before. The above dispatch is the first regular news article transmitted by the newly established government I radio station at Point Barrow.