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Nature of Casualty
Ice snapped rudder and vessel was abandoned after trapped in ice, later crushed. Tornfelt, Evert E.,
Burwell, Michael, Shipwrecks of the Alaskan Shelf and Shore, U.S. Department of the Interior, Minerals
Management Service, Alaska OCS Region, 1992
The five northernmost ships, the Roman, Comet, Concordia, Gay Head, and George, were completely
surrounded. Slightly to the south the John Wells, Massachusetts, Contest, J. D. Thompson, Henry
Taber, Fanny, Monticello, and Elizabeth Swift were not as tightly gripped... The next day a lobe of ice
pressed down on the southern fleet, grounding in five and half feet of water to the south of them. It
stove the Awashonks, nipped the Julian, and snapped the rudder off the Eugenia. The Awashonks was
sold at auction for sixteen dollars. Bockstoce, John R., Whales, Ice, and Men: The History of Whaling
in the Western Arctic, University of Washington Press, Seattle Washington, 1986:154-155
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