At 8:20 a.m., Sept. 19, 1908, the Alaska Packers Association’s 263-foot sailing vessel Star of Bengal untied from the APA cannery in Wrangell, bound for San Francisco. On board were 52,000 cases of salmon and 137 or 138 cannery workers…
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