The Ancon Makes a Swing to Destruction (1889)

The Ancon had gotten her start as a ferry in Panama, but would live to see herself traveling the route along the little populated Alaskan coast, carrying tourists and picking up cargo from the salmon canneries. Though she had been rebuilt a couple of times, people would still comment that she had been rotten when she ended up on the Loring Alaska reefs and broke in half.   Ship: Ancon Ship Type: Wooden Sidewheel Steamer  Tonnage: 1200  Built: 1873  Sank: 1889  Location Sank: Loring Alaska Sources:  https://www.academia.edu/23408504/A_Narrow_Escape_Albert_Bierstadts_Wreck_of_the_Ancon_ https://digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/digital/collection/laroche/id/97 https://wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?223215 https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/2022/03/20/a-famous-painter-happened-to-be-aboard-for-an-1889-shipwreck-in-southeast-alaska/ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albert_Bierstadt_-_Wreck_of_the_Ancon.jpg