Palatial riverboat was caught in a hurricane on the open sea

Published: Feb. 24, 2021, 2 p.m.

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. (Off Cape Blanco, Curry County; 1889) (For text and pictures, see http://offbeatoregon.com/1311c-riverboat-alaskan-caught-in-offshore-hurricane.html)