The ''Kad'yak'', also known as ''Kadyak'' and ''Kadiak'', was a wooden-hulled sailing merchant ship belonging to the
Russian-American Company
The Russian-American Company Under the High Patronage of His Imperial Majesty was a state-sponsored chartered company formed largely on the basis of the Shelikhov-Golikov Company, United American Company. Emperor Paul I of Russia chartered the c ...
. Purchased by the company in 1851, she was used to transport personnel and supplies among its settlements in
Russian Alaska
From 1732 to 1867, the Russian Empire laid claim to northern Pacific Coast territories in the Americas. Russian colonial possessions in the Americas were collectively known as Russian America from 1799 to 1867. It consisted mostly of present-d ...
, and to transport trade goods to
San Francisco
San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, Financial District, San Francisco, financial, and Culture of San Francisco, cultural center of Northern California. With a population of 827,526 residents as of ...
. On April 2, 1860, she struck a rock near the port of
Kodiak, Alaska
Kodiak (Alutiiq language, Alutiiq: ) is the main city and one of seven communities on Kodiak Island in Kodiak Island Borough, Alaska, Kodiak Island Borough, Alaska. All commercial transportation between the island's communities and the outside ...
while carrying a load of ice and trade goods destined for San Francisco, and sank near
Spruce Island after drifting for three days.
The shipwreck was discovered in 2003, and listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...
in 2004. It was at that time the only known shipwreck associated with the Russian era in Alaska.
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Transport infrastructure completed in 1860
National Register of Historic Places in Kodiak Island Borough, Alaska
Russian colonization of North America
Shipwrecks on the National Register of Historic Places in Alaska
Shipwrecks of the Alaska coast
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