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Nature of Casualty
Crushed in ice and abandoned. 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. 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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