Northwest History. Alaska. Science. United States.

Victoria Brings Gold Shipment Victoria Brings Gold Shipment Alaska's gold ship, the Victoria, true to her name, arrived in Seattle this morning from the Seward Peninsula district with more than $300,000 worth of the yellow metal, which was discharged at. Pier 2 and transferred to the United Sta...

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Published: 1936
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Summary:Victoria Brings Gold Shipment Victoria Brings Gold Shipment Alaska's gold ship, the Victoria, true to her name, arrived in Seattle this morning from the Seward Peninsula district with more than $300,000 worth of the yellow metal, which was discharged at. Pier 2 and transferred to the United States Assay Office on Airport Way. The Victoria came from Nome, Teller, St. Michael and False Pass. In addition to the gold, the vessel brought shipments of frozen reindeer meat and canned salmon. She had sixty passengers, including Miss Aleda Brinkeroff, Helen Fred- erickson and Florence Kirkpatrick, Nome school teachers. The Victoria is posted to sail for Southeastern Alaska July 7. The next sailing from Seattle for Nome and other Bering Sea ports will be made by the steamship Dellwood, departing from Pier B at 10 o'clock Friday morning. The steamship Baranof of the Alaska Steamship Company arrived in Seattle this morning from Southwestern Alaska via Cape Flattery, with twenty passengers and a cargo of canned salmon and other freight.