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Nature of Casualty
Abandoned after trapped in ice and 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
1872: They [salvors] first came to the Mary she had been pushed ashore and crushed. Then they
found the Minerva over on her beam ends in shallow water near the inlet. Apart from some chafing
from the floes and a hold full of solid ice, she was sound. Bockstoce, John R., Whales, Ice, and Men:
The History of Whaling in the Western Arctic, University of Washington Press, Seattle Washington,
1986:163
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