paddle steamer

This week it's back to just the lads again with the story of the sidewheeler Alaskan, sunk in May 1889 off of Cape Blanco.

Sources:

"The Alaskan Founders." New York Times, 17 May 1889. https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1889/05/17/100961000.pdf

Anderson, Matthew. "SS Columbia - The Lost Ship Who Lit the World." Shipwreck World, 23 Oct 2016. https://www.shipwreckworld.com/articles/ss-columbia-the-first-electric-ship

"The Olympian and the Alaskan." The West Shore, 1 May 1884. https://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/2012260361/1884-05-01/ed-1/seq-7/

Schultz, Duane. "Inconvenient Truth: A Daring Reporter Tells Abraham Lincoln What His Own Government Would Not." America's Civil War, Nov 2012, pp. 26 - 33.

"Villard, Henry. "1911 Encyclopedia Britannica. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Villard,_Henry

"Yaquina Head Lighthouse." Lighthouse Friends. https://www.lighthousefriends.com/light.asp?ID=133

Villard, Henry. "Recollections of Lincoln." The Atlantic: 2012 Civil War Special, pp. 34 - 37. 

This week we discuss one of the worst maritime tragedies in the history of the West Coast of North America - the sinking of the paddle steamer Brother Jonathan  in July of 1865.

**Bonus content alert**
There will be an additional 20ish-minute segment available on Patreon in which we discuss the legal battle surrounding the discovery and salvage of Brother Jonathan, a case which made it all the way up to the US Supreme Court

Sources:

Jones, John Paul. "Treasure Salvage and the United States Supreme Court: Issues Remaining After Brother Jonathan." University of Richmond  Scholarship Repository

Lincoln, Mary Todd. "A Letter from Mary Todd Lincoln to Mrs. Anson G. Henry." Retrieved 2 May 2022 from rememberinglincoln.fords.org

Lomax, Alfred J. "Brother Jonathan: Pioneer Steamship of the Pacific Coast." Oregon Historical Quarterly, vol. 60, no. 3, Sept 1959

Powers, Dennis. "Brother Jonathan." Oregon Encyclopedia, 24 Aug 2019.

"The S.S. Brother Jonathan." Del Norte County Historical Society

We discuss the sinking of the paddle steamer Anthony Wayne on Lake Erie in April of 1850.

*Originally released 11/8/21; edited and re-uploaded 3/22/22

Selected sources:

"Anthony Wayne" - Shipwrecks and Maritime Tales of the Lake Erie Coastal Ohio Trail

Batemon, Shondra - "From Wreck to Rediscovery - PS Anthony Wayne: a historical treasure"

Krueger, Bradley Alan - Anthony Wayne: The History and Archaeology of an Early Great Lakes Steamboat (2012)
- This is the detailed source that I refer to heavily in the episode; there is detailed information about the ship's engine system and the ship's operational history on the Lakes. 

Weisman, Matthew J. and Paula Shorf - "Boats Built at Toledo, Ohio including Monroe, Michigan:  A Comprehensive Listing of the Vessels Built from Schooners to Steamers from 1810 to the Present"