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Following the Star: Preliminary Insights Into The Submerged Site of the Alaska Packers Association Ship Star of Bengal (2024)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Evguenia {Jenya} Anichtchenko. Shawn Dilles. Sean Adams. Gig Decker. Tessa Hulls. William Urschel. Patty Urschel. Ray Troll.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In September of 1908, the Alaska Packers Association ship Star of Bengal sunk near Coronation Island, Alaska, while on route from Wrangell, Alaska, to San Francisco. The ship carried a cargo of canned salmon and 111 Asian cannery workers, mostly Chinese. Of the 36 white crewmen, 21 survived, while most of cannery workers perished....