The MMS Shipwreck Database provides the most comprehensive compilation of Alaska
shipwrecks to date. The database is a list of shipwrecks that have occurred in
Alaska from earliest Russian times (1741) to the present compiled from an extensive
literature search. The electronic database was updated in September 2000. The
information found in the database includes:
Date of wreck
Vessel name
Cause of wreck
Location of wreck (not in Lat/Lon)
Sources
Other pertinent information
If
you would like to find specific information on a particular shipwreck off the coast of
Alaska, you can search for it by using the Alaskan Shipwreck Online Query.
To find out more information on shipwrecks off the coast of Alaska, contact Mike Burwell at Minerals Management Service
in Anchorage, Alaska.
We give a special "Thank You" to our summer interns: Ryan
Olson, Megan Huber and Debika
Shome. Without their good humor and tolerance for tedious data entry, along with
hard work and diligence, this shipwreck database wouldn't be as complete. We thank
University of Alaska Anchorage Librarian Ralph Courtney for alerting us to the vast
shipwreck archive of the Anchorage Daily News and
to Sharon Palmisano for graciously giving us access to the Daily News and Anchorage
Times morgue files.
