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
