SS Aleutian Kodiak Shipwreck Gold

Turn-of-the-century accounts describe the Aleutian blown off course, striking a submerged boulder, and sinking within minutes with a large gold shipment from Interior and Seward Peninsula fields. Years later an aviator sighted masts near Kodiak at extreme low tide beside the strike rock, organized divers, then died in a crash before a recovery expedition could return. Related Kodiak waters lore includes smaller wrecks such as the Servia and St. George with additional gold cargoes, amplifying the Aleutian as the flagship lost-ship treasure of the archipelago.