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Nature of Casualty
Abandoned after trapped in ice (*tonnage 480). 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 captains sent their men down to the Kohola to put her water, oil, stores, and other movables on
board the Carlotta. Bockstoce, John R., Whales, Ice, and Men: The History of Whaling in the Western
Arctic, University of Washington Press, Seattle Washington, 1986:156
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Official Number: 5115
Type: Bark
Length: N/A
Home Port: San Francisco, CA
Place Built: N/A
Date Lost: Sept. 12, 1871
Captain When Lost: E. Everett Smith
Where: Point Belcher, near Wainwright Inlet
Cause: Trapped in Ice and Abandoned
Cargo: 700 Barrels of Whale Oil
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