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Wednesday, May 09, 2007
Historians plan study of Lynn Canal shipwreck
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Ktva.com
May 09, 2007
State and federal officials are working to document a wrecked ship, but not one that went down recently. They plan to study the submerged remains of the Gold Rush era steamship Clara Nevada. The vessel was destroyed in an explosion 20 miles south of Haines in 1898.
Before being purchased by speculators and renamed, the steamer had spent more than 20 years charting southeast coastal waters as the U.S. Coast Survey vessel Hassler. The cause of the explosion that sank the vessel is a mystery. The Office of History and Archaeology in the Alaska Department of Natural Resources is working on the project with scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Plans call for conducting an underwater investigation of the site in Lynn Canal this week. They hope to use the information gathered from that investigation to nominate the wreck to the National Register of Historic Places.
Alaska State Archaeologist Dave McMahan says the shipwreck is closely related to the Eldred Rock Lighthouse. The lighthouse was built after the wreck partly because of the incident. The lighthouse itself is already on the national register. The state is responsible for protecting historic properties, including shipwrecks, on state submerged lands.
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Ktva.com
May 09, 2007
State and federal officials are working to document a wrecked ship, but not one that went down recently. They plan to study the submerged remains of the Gold Rush era steamship Clara Nevada. The vessel was destroyed in an explosion 20 miles south of Haines in 1898.
Before being purchased by speculators and renamed, the steamer had spent more than 20 years charting southeast coastal waters as the U.S. Coast Survey vessel Hassler. The cause of the explosion that sank the vessel is a mystery. The Office of History and Archaeology in the Alaska Department of Natural Resources is working on the project with scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Plans call for conducting an underwater investigation of the site in Lynn Canal this week. They hope to use the information gathered from that investigation to nominate the wreck to the National Register of Historic Places.
Alaska State Archaeologist Dave McMahan says the shipwreck is closely related to the Eldred Rock Lighthouse. The lighthouse was built after the wreck partly because of the incident. The lighthouse itself is already on the national register. The state is responsible for protecting historic properties, including shipwrecks, on state submerged lands.
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