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* Balkan, Evan. ''Shipwrecked! Deadly Adventures and Disasters at Sea''. Birmingham, AL: Menasha Ridge, 2008, pp.91-106 |
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* {{cite book | author=McKinlay, William Laird | title=The Last Voyage of the Karluk: A Survivor's Memoir of Arctic Disaster | publisher=St. Martin's Press | year=1999 | isbn=0312206550}} |
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The Karluk (Aleut for "fish") was a brigantine of 247 tons, 126 feet long, with a steam auxiliary engine. The Karluk was built in 1884 to be a tender for the salmon fisheries of the Aleutian Islands. She was subsequently converted for arctic whaling with the addition of two-inch Australian ironwood sheathing.
The Karluk was used for an expedition to the Arctic in 1913 led by Vilhjalmur Stefansson and captained by Robert Bartlett. The ship became icebound several months into the voyage, at which time Stefansson and five others [1] left the ship and spent the next five years 1913-1918 exploring the Arctic. The ship meanwhile was swept toward Siberia, and was eventually crushed by the ice in the Chukchi Sea near Wrangel Island. The crew crossed the ice to the island under the leadership of Captain Bartlett, and spent the remaining winter and spring on the island while Bartlett went overland via sled to get help. Numerous crew members perished, but the rest were rescued in September 1914. These events were described in the diary of William Laird McKinlay, one of the survivors of the expedition, who published The Last Voyage of the Karluk: A Survivor's Memoir of Arctic Disaster in 1976. The youngest and last living survivor of the Karluk disaster, Ruth Makpii Ipalook, died on June 2, 2008 at the age of 97.[2]
See also
- King & Winge (fishing schooner that rescued survivors of the Karluk)
- Herald Island where the remains of four crew members were found.
References
- ^ Jenness, Stuart Edward. The Making of an Explorer: George Hubert Wilkins and the Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913-1916. McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 2004. The list of those who left with Stefansson is on p. 11.
- ^ Harper, Kenn. "Ruth Makpii Ipalook, 97, youngest survivor of ill-fated Karluk expedition, dies (an interesting bit o' history)" Toronto Globe and Mail. September 27, 2008.
External links
- Bartlett, Robert A. "Bartlett's Story of the Karluk." New York Times. June 1, 1914. - Capt. Robert A. Bartlett's version of the Karluk voyage, including a map. Accessed May 26, 2009.
- McConnell, Burt M. "Got Karluk's Men As Hope Was Dim." New York Times. September 15, 1914. - Meteorologist Burt McConnell's version of the Karluk rescue. Accessed April 29, 2009.
Further reading
- Bartlett, Robert (1916). Northward Ho! The Last Voyage of the Karluk. Small, Meynard & Co.
- McKinlay, William Laird (1999). The Last Voyage of the Karluk: A Survivor's Memoir of Arctic Disaster. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0312206550.
- Niven, Jennifer (2000). The Ice Master: The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk. Hyperion. ISBN 0-7868-6529-6.
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