Shipwreck found off Alaskan coast

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A private dive team has discovered the wreckage of an American ship that sank off the south-central Alaska coast 139 years ago. The ******* sank in Cook Inlet in 1868 after tidal currents rammed it into a reef south of the Kenai Peninsula. Documents from the period show that all 155 people on board survived.


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The U.S. had purchased Alaska from Russia less than a year earlier, and about 130 Army soldiers had come north on the ******* to build the first U.S. military fort in south-central Alaska.



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