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| Keywords: Survivors from wreck of schooner JOSEPH RUSS boarding steamer DORA, off Chirikof Island, April 1912 (THWAITES 161).jpeg check categories 27 October 2016 3 Photograph Creator John E Thwaites Caption on image Survivors from wreck of schooner Joseph Russ being picked up by SS Dora off coast of Alaska PH Coll 247 290<br/>The codfishing schooner JOSEPH RUSS struck the rocks off Chirikof Island on April 21 and was totally demolished First Mate J Jorgensen being drowned Capt Charles Foss and the remaining 29 men of the crew reached the island where they were in danger of death through cold and starvation Second Mate A E Reeve and five volunteers put out in two small boats to seek assistance battling for 11 days through constant storms to reach Chignik arriving two hours before the steamer DORA Capt C B McMullen of the DORA ordered his vessel to the scene of the RUSS wreck which was reached the following evening Although the midnight sun allowed rescue work to proceed throughout the night it required 12 hours to remove the shipwrecked fishermen safely to the DORA Notes from Gordon Newell ed The H W McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest Seattle Superior Publishing Co 1966 Subjects LCTGM Dora Ship ; Rescues--Alaska; Pacific Ocean Subjects LCSH Steamboats--Alaska--Chirikof Island; ; Shipwreck victims--Alaska--Chirikof Island; Lifeboats--Alaska--Chirikof Island; Survival after airplane accidents shipwrecks etc --Alaska--Chirikof Island depicted place United States--Alaska--Chirikof Island 1912 Institution University of Washington UWASH-THWAITES-source accession number thwaites 161 PD-old-auto-1923 1940 Information field Order Number THW149 Images from the John E Thwaites Photographs of Alaska Collection to check Pacific Ocean Steamboats of Alaska Lifeboats | ||||
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