Collection:
Juneau—Douglas City Museum
Object ID:
2008.21.147
Accession#:
2008.21
Credit Line:
Transferred from the Alaska State Archives.
Object Name:
Documents
Title:
Arrested Vessel documents
Year Range from:
1888
Year Range to:
1892
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, Vouchers, Newspaper clippings and a ledger on Arrested Vessels, 1888—1892
Correspondence, vouchers, newspaper clippings and a ledger dealing with arrests, Marshal sales, and other matters. Vessels include Challenge, Sylvia Handy, W.P. Hayward, Grace, Dolphin, Ada, and Anna Beck.
Two (2) of the three (3) newspaper clippings are attached to corresponding correspondence in the upper proper right corner and adhered with a glue or other kind of adhesive.
Correspondence, vouchers, newspaper clippings and a ledger dealing with arrests, Marshal sales, and other matters. Vessels include Challenge, Sylvia Handy, W.P. Hayward, Grace, Dolphin, Ada, and Anna Beck.
Two (2) of the three (3) newspaper clippings are attached to corresponding correspondence in the upper proper right corner and adhered with a glue or other kind of adhesive.
Dates of Creation:
1888—1892
Notes:
One document (two pages) from the Kinky Baer Archives at the State Historic Library relating to the ship "Challenge" are located in the collection's file. Document states:
"37 tons: Off. No. 126339 Built in Seattle 1882 62.5' x 17.4' x 6.1 Owned by Albert Douglas with H.B. Jones, Master. Carried a crew of 14 whites and one indian and was seized by a rev. cutter in the Bering Sea on June 30. 4 rifles, 5 shotguns, and 151 seal skins were confiscated and the vessel was sent to Sitka. The following year she was purchased by Capt. Adolph Ridder — bjelke, who used her in the sealing game during the next four years. On Nov. 10, 1891, Capt. Ridd——— took her into Bering Sea to attempt a raid on the rookeries at St. Geo. Id. They made a landing and kiled a few seals but the weather forced them to leave after securing only 37 skins. In Jan. the vessel was seized at Unalaska and the crew was sent to Sitka where they spent a month in jail. What was done with the vessel was not reported, but her sealing career evidently ended as she is not listed with the fleet in following years.
According to Lewis & Dryden, she was built by Capt. E.H. McAlmond and used for seal and sea otter hunting and for trading voyages to Alaska. She was skipperd by Capt. Henry McAlmond for many years and in 1886 was sold to Chief Peter of the Neah Bay tribe. In 1887 she was wrecked near Nitinat, Vancouver Island and "Cultus" Geo. was drowned.
"37 tons: Off. No. 126339 Built in Seattle 1882 62.5' x 17.4' x 6.1 Owned by Albert Douglas with H.B. Jones, Master. Carried a crew of 14 whites and one indian and was seized by a rev. cutter in the Bering Sea on June 30. 4 rifles, 5 shotguns, and 151 seal skins were confiscated and the vessel was sent to Sitka. The following year she was purchased by Capt. Adolph Ridder — bjelke, who used her in the sealing game during the next four years. On Nov. 10, 1891, Capt. Ridd——— took her into Bering Sea to attempt a raid on the rookeries at St. Geo. Id. They made a landing and kiled a few seals but the weather forced them to leave after securing only 37 skins. In Jan. the vessel was seized at Unalaska and the crew was sent to Sitka where they spent a month in jail. What was done with the vessel was not reported, but her sealing career evidently ended as she is not listed with the fleet in following years.
According to Lewis & Dryden, she was built by Capt. E.H. McAlmond and used for seal and sea otter hunting and for trading voyages to Alaska. She was skipperd by Capt. Henry McAlmond for many years and in 1886 was sold to Chief Peter of the Neah Bay tribe. In 1887 she was wrecked near Nitinat, Vancouver Island and "Cultus" Geo. was drowned.
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