S.S. Princess May wrecked on Sentinel Island, Alaska, August 5, 1910. W.H. Case, photographer. (Library of Congress)
No, the captain didn’t drive the ship up onto the rocks. After the Canadian Pacific Railway steamer S.S. Princess May hit and became caught on a reef close to Alaska’s Sentinel Island, the tide went out.
It was a month before tug boats were able to pull the ship free. After the eighteen inch wide, fifty foot long gash was repaired, the ship operated for another 20 years, being scuttled off Jamaica in 1930.
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