Nature of Casualty
Abandoned after trapped in ice. Tornfelt, Evert E., Burwell, Michael, Shipwrecks of the Alaskan Shelf
and Shore, U.S. Department of the Interior, Minerals Management Service, Alaska OCS Region, 1992l
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. Bockstoce, John R., Whales,
Ice, and Men: The History of Whaling in the Western Arctic, University of Washington Press, Seattle
Washington, 1986:154
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