Alaska Marine Lines

Alaska Marine Lines is a marine transportation company that ships all types of freight to and from Southeast Alaska, Central Alaska, Prince William Sound and the Yukon Territory of Canada. Alaska Marine Lines services the communities of Juneau, Ketchikan, Wrangell, Sitka, Petersburg, Haines, Skagway, Kake and Prince of Wales Island. They serve mostly retail businesses such as grocery stores and provide special services to support industries such as fishing, mining and timber. They recently introduced the world’s first 53’ long by 9’ wide by 10’ high ISO–rated dry and refrigerated containers and their 53’ fleet is the largest in Alaska.

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Site News: January 14, 2025

The vessel database has been updated and is now holding 94,957 vessel histories (with 16,337 images and 13,935 records of ship wrecks and marine disasters).

The mariner and naval biography database has also been updated and now contains 58,599 entries (with 3998 images).

My thanks to Ray Warren who is beginning a long process of filling gaps in the photo record of the vessel histories in the vessel database. Ray has been documenting the ships of Vancouver Harbour for more than 60 years.

Thanks to contributor Mike Rydqvist McCammon for the hundreds of photos he continues to contribute to illustrate British Columbia’s floating heritage.

My very special thanks to our volunteer IT adviser, John Eyre, who (since 2021) has modernized, simplified and improved the update process for the databases into semi–automated processes. His participation has been vital to keeping the Nauticapedia available to our netizens.

Thanks to John Spivey who is beginning his 4th year of fact checking all of the entries in the vessel database.


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