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This was taken at the west end of the barracks looking toward the CAA station...
A close encounter of the sea lion kind.....
Thanks to A/2c Bill Price , Dec. 57- Dec 58,  for these photos...t.
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Ship Aground. "A fellow ham operator sent me one of the ship that ran aground in the early 40's (far background) Up until the earthquake in March of '64 the ship was always out in the water. However after the quake, the island rose about 15 feet and is on dry land now. In the foreground is the microwave antenna of the old "White Alice" network." ....Bill.                        .....Photo taken 1990.....
"This is a photo of the cliff on the southwest coast of the island and an outcropping called "South Rock". It was here where four airman while walking the beach during low tide (in early 58), when they were trapped and killed by a tidal wave. We got two of them out the first day, found one more but did not have time to recover his body and had to wrap it in ropes and stake the ropes to the beach and wait for the tide to go back out to recover his body. The other body washed up on the other side of the island (the east side) 3 days later and was recovered. The island is basically 3 1/2 miles long and only a half mile wide. I also read in my internet search that a geologist had fallen off these same cliffs in 1962 and was killed."  webmasres note...the geologist was a visitor from the Coast and Geodesic Survey..................
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"Washed up whale on the east beach"......
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This is the freighter 'Coldbrook', a Hog Islander which ran aground at Middleton on June 16, 1942.  Efforts to salvage her were abandoned.No lives were lost...thanks to Bill Price for this research..
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