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Title: Capt. J. D. Winchester's experience on a voyage from Lynn, Massachusetts, to San Francisco, Cal., and to the Alaskan gold fields ...
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Winchester, James D
Subjects: Voyages to the Pacific coast
Publisher: Salem, Mass., Newcomb & Gauss, printers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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the wind held. We had set our top gallants again and were making a good lay for port. These Aleutian Islands are very mountainous, tiered along and making a chain that nearly crosses the Pacific.There are no trees, but the grass grows around the sides of the mountains and in the valleys, but the seacoast, gulch and gully, was a line of black cliffs. We soon made the entrance to Dutch Harbor and had to anchor on the outside on account of the wind dying out.As soon as the anchor was down, a dozen or more got their hooks and lines and caught some fine cod. Dutch Harbor was well protected from high winds and storms; high mountains gave us a shelter and there was a dry bar across the mouth, with a good channel to pass in, which broke off the sea coming in from Bering. About four miles further up we could see Unalaska, with its old Russian church, now a Catholic mission. Unalaska was considered the leading town. River boats were being built there. Dutch Harbor had a store, and six or seven dwelling (i46)
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Capt. J. D. Winchester. Events 1899. IMAGE: The barque Haydn Brown making the Unamak Pass. (Owner Mr Humphrey - page 130) FROM DUTCH HARBOR TO ST. MICHAELS. 147 houses and a hotel. We got under way and brought the barque inside of the bar, where they tried fishing again,catching many that were not fit to eat. We were told that all the fish inside of the bar were diseased and not fit to eat,so no more fish were caught. Here we found that the captain was trying to raise money on ship and cargo to buy provisions, but the merchants would not accept the bond and the captain was hard pushed. He was trying to hear from the owner, but could not, and there we lay,eating up what little we did have. One day three of us went on shore for a tramp over the mountains, taking a lunch with us. We walked around the seashore for a short distance, finding some places hard to pass as the water came up under the cliff, and finally had to leave the shore and get upon the cliffs, where we found a cosy place to sit and view the mountain scenery.After we had eaten our lunch, we felt tired, for we had been on the barque sixteen days without e

The new barque Haydn Brown was to have been launched from the yard of Atkinson to Fillmore, at Newburyport, last night. The Boston Globe, Boston, Massachusetts, 24 May 1876, Wed • Page 7 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/35428593/sv_haydn_brown_built_newburyport_mass/
Boston Post (Boston, Massachusetts)09 Mar 1876, ThuPage 4 says projected tonnage 850 tons.

SV HAYDN BROWN Length 162 x 34.9 x 19.8 Built Newburyport Mass, Tonnage 864 GRT; 769 NRT; Registered at Seattle; Official No. 95434; Owner Coastwise Steamship and Barge Co of Seattle. The 162 foot 864 ton barque Haydn Brown was lost on the southern tip of Montague Island on May 18th, 1912. The vessel departed Akutan May 3, 1912 bound for Seattle via Gypsum with 30 tons of coal, six crew and two stowaways. Read more at wrecksite: https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?216000

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