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The Last Life of the Eliza Anderson (1898)


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The Eliza Anderson was well past the point where she belonged in the scrap yard when she was pressed into service to bring miners to the Klondike Gold Rush in Alaska in 1898. She was never to finish to voyage.

Ship Name: Eliza Anderson 

Tonnage: 275

Lives Lost: None 

Built: 1858

Ship Type: Sidewheel Steamer

Sources: 

Rogers, Jason. “Steamer Eliza Anderson: An Early Puget Sound Steamer Shipwrecked in Dutch Harbor, Alaska .” The Sea Chest: Journal of the Puget Sound Maritime Historical Society, 2009, pp. 51–61.

Williams, David B. Mosquito Fleet, 2 Feb. 2021, https://www.historylink.org/file/869.

“Steamer Eliza Anderson.” The Puget Sound Mail, 25 June 1881, p. 3.

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