Running Aground

Dr. Anderson's daily journal provides the details of the almost daily adventure of running aground while trying to go between the shore and grounded ice. "Tide fell rapidly in afternoon and left us grounded in about 4 feet of water. Tide began to rise about 6 p.m. and we floated up and kedged the vessel off about 8.45 p.m. moving up and tying to another grounded cake of ice. We tie up by running alongside of the ice, and jumping out with a boat anchor or grappling hook which is engaged in a ridge or crack or hole chopped in the ice." Alaska got under way again the evening of 21 July, and worked out into a broad lead of open water. From here westward, the ocean was practically open.