The BOEM Alaskan Shipwreck table provides the most comprehensive compilation of Alaskan shipwrecks to date. The table is a list of shipwrecks that have occurred in Alaska from earliest Russian times (1741) to the 2000 compiled from an extensive literature search. See shipwreck sources and notes. The table was last updated in May 2011.
Quick Links:
Maritime History, Ship, and Shipwreck Links:
- Alaska Historical Society
- Alaska's Maritime Heritage: Resources and Projects
- American Whaling Voyages Database
- Coast Guard Historian
- Coast Guard Vessel Information
- Index to Ships in Books
- John's Nautical Links List
- Kodiak Maritime Museum
- Maritime Disasters of WW II
- Maritime History Virtual Archives
- National Park Service Submerged Cultural Resources Unit
- Naval History and Photography
- NOAA Automated Wreck and Obstruction Information System
- NOAA Fisheries Vessel Documentation
- Nordic Underwater Archaeology's Wreck Database and Lists
- Northern Shipwrecks Database
- Puget Sound Maritime Historical Society
- Shipwrecks Worldwide
- Sitka Maritime Heritage Society
- Underwater Archaeological Society of British Columbia
- 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 the Alaska OCS Region 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.