Nature of Casualty
Trapped in ice and abandoned. In 1872, hull of vessel was identified - bow and stern were 1.2 miles
apart. 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... 1872: Captain Williams
found the bow and stern of his Monticello half a mile apart. Bockstoce, John R., Whales, Ice, and Men:
The History of Whaling in the Western Arctic, University of Washington Press, Seattle Washington,
1986:154, 163
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