Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
FV Alaska Ranger was a fishing factory ship owned and operated by the Fishing Company of Alaska of Seattle, Washington. The ship was constructed in 1973 for use as an oil field service vessel. The ship sank 23 March 2008, after reporting progressive flooding only hours earlier.
The vessel's Emergency position-indicating radiobeacon station (EPIRB) went off around 8:00am AST (UTC−9), at the beginning of the 2005 opilio crab hunting season. Three fishing vessels (FV Cornelia Marie, FV Maverick and Sea Rover), United States Coast Guard ship USCGC Sherman, [1] the Alaska state patrol boat Stimson, and a Coast Guard helicopter out of Saint Paul Island were involved in ...
The 43-foot (13.1 m) halibut-fishing vessel sank in the Bering Sea approximately 25 nautical miles (46 km; 29 mi) northeast of Dutch Harbor, Alaska, after her engine room flooded. The high endurance cutter USCGC Boutwell ( United States Coast Guard ) rescued her crew of four after they had been in the water for only four minutes.
The catcher processor was abandoned in the Bering Sea approximately 100 nautical miles (190 km; 120 mi) northwest of Dutch Harbor, Alaska. The fishing vessel Bering Sea ( United States) rescued her crew of seven from a life raft. A United States Coast Guard vessel sank Hawaiian Princess′s burned-out hulk with 800 rounds of machine gun fire. [29]
The 63-foot (19.2 m) longline cod-fishing vessel capsized and sank without loss of life in Hallo Bay on the south coast of the Alaska Peninsula in Alaska west of Kodiak Island. The fishing vessel T-Mike ( United States) rescued one of her four crew members; a United States Coast Guard helicopter rescued the other three. [7] St. George United States
In 1957, the Alaska Territorial Legislature passed a measure stating simply: "The death penalty is and shall hereafter be abolished as punishment in Alaska for the commission of any crime." [ 22 ] The abolition followed prolonged debates during discussions pertaining to Alaskan statehood , during which Warren A. Taylor gave an "impassioned ...
The fishing vessel was lost during severe weather in Culross Passage between Culross Island and the northeastern end of the Kenai Peninsula near "Night Island" (probably a reference to Knight Island) at the western end of Prince William Sound off the south-central coast of Alaska.
FV Northern Belle was a fishing vessel that sank in the Gulf of Alaska on April 20, 2010. Three of her four crew were rescued alive; her captain, Robert Royer, died before rescue teams arrived. Three of her four crew were rescued alive; her captain, Robert Royer, died before rescue teams arrived.