Bell Retrieved from Alaska's Second Deadliest Shipwreck - Archaeology Magazine

Bell Retrieved from Alaska's Second Deadliest Shipwreck - Archaeology Magazine

Star of Bengal bell on the surface WRANGELL, ALASKA—Anchorage Daily News reports that an underwater archaeological team identified and mapped a shipwreck involved in one of Alaska’s most tragic maritime disasters. The Star of Bengal was traveling from Wrangell to San Francisco when it went down on September 20, 1908, near Coronation Island in southeastern Alaska’s Alexander Archipelago. The 264-foot ship, which was built in the same shipyard as …