Vessel Profile

Mount Wollaston

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Historical Notes

In 1876, while whaling in the pack ice, she was abandoned but salvaged in 1877 and put back into service. On October 23, 1879 this vessel was wrecked at Herald Island, Siberia Russia with the loss of the entire crew.

Owners & Masters

In 1876-1879 she was owned by New Bedford MA USA interests.

Masters

Captain Ebenezer F. Nye (1879)

References

Bockstoce, John R. (Apr 2006) in The Northern Mariner XVI No. 2 Pp53-68) "Nineteenth century commercial shipping losses in the northern Bering Sea, Chukchi Sea and Bering Sea."

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