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Historical Ships
The MMS Shipwreck Database provides the most comprehensive compilation of Alaska shipwrecks to date.  The database is a list of shipwrecks that have occurred in Alaska from earliest Russian times (1741) to the present compiled from an extensive literature search.  The electronic database was updated in September 2000. The information found in the database includes: 

Date of wreck
Vessel name
Cause of wreck
Location of wreck (not in Lat/Lon)
Sources
Other pertinent information

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Alaska's Ten Worst Shipping Losses in the Last 20 Years

Alaska's Worst All Time Shipping Losses

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If you would like to find specific information on a particular shipwreck off the coast of Alaska, you can search for it by Year of Wreck, Name of Vessel, Cause, Location  or from an alphabetical listing.

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Maritime History, Ship, and Shipwreck Links:
Alaska Historical Society
Australian National Historic Shipwreck Database
California Shipwrecks
Coast Guard Casualty Reports
Coast Guard News from Alaska
Coast Guard Vessel Documentation Data Query
Historical Shipwreck Databases and Sites
International Registry of Sunken Ships
 Maritime Disasters of WW II
Maritime History Virtual Archives
Merchant Ships
National Park Service Submerged Cultural Resources Unit
Naval History and Photography
NOAA Automated Wreck and Obstruction Information System
Nordic Underwater Archaeology's Wreck Database and Lists
Northern Shipwrecks Database
Northwest Ships and Shipping Database
Puget Sound Maritime Historical Society
Shipwrecks and other Marine Disasters
Shipwrecks Since 1833
Shipwrecks Worldwide
U.S. Merchant Marine
U.S. Merchant Ships Sunk in WW II
U.S. Naval Historical Center


To find out more information on shipwrecks off the coast of Alaska, contact Mike Burwell at Minerals Management Service in Anchorage, Alaska. 

We give a special "Thank You" to our summer interns: Ryan Olson, Megan Huber and Debika Shome.  Without their good humor and tolerance for tedious data entry, along with hard work and diligence, this shipwreck database wouldn't be as complete.  We thank University of Alaska Anchorage Librarian Ralph Courtney for alerting us to the vast shipwreck archive of the Anchorage Daily News and to Sharon Palmisano for graciously giving us access to the Daily News and Anchorage Times morgue files.  

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