Great Bear (III)

U S Coast Guard Report of Casualty filed at Nome August 27, 1916: The 367 ton wooden gas screw Great Bear stranded on the center of Pinnacle Rock on the west side and seven miles out from Saint Matthews Island and was lost Thursday August 10, 1916. Captain L L Lane of Seattle blames faulty dead reckoning and a lack of knowledge of current conditions was to blame. The Great Bear departed Unalaska August 6th bound for Saint Paul and Saint George Islands with a crew of 21 and 275 ton of general merchandise worth $50,000. The crew survived the wreck but the Great Bear, valued at $80,000 and her cargo were both lost. The vessel had no insurance. The weather at 12:57 a.m. when the accident occurred was “wind blowing about ten miles an hour, weather intensely thick and dark, heavy SW ground swell, very dark.” The crew of the Great Bear was assisted by the USCG Cutter McCullough fifteen days after the wreck.