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Palatial riverboat caught in hurricane on open sea
Category: Education
Duration: 00:08:57
Publish Date: 2025-12-17 14:00:00
Description: Designed for calm inland waterways, the sidewheel steamboat Alaskan was no match for the massive late-spring gale that pounced on it off Cape Blanco one fateful night in 1889. (Cape Blanco, Curry County; 1889) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1311c-riverboat-alaskan-caught-in-offshore-hurricane.html)
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