Ogontz (steamer)

The Hog Island type steamship Ogontz was purchased from the Lykes Bros. Steamship Co. of New Orleans and rebuilt as a floating cannery for Alaska service by the Alaska Southern Packing Co. of Seattle. Capt. E. B. Hoffman and Chief Engineer Eli Christensen of the company's floating cannery La Merced brought the vessel to the Pacific Coast. Gordon Newell, Maritime events of 1939, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, p. 473.

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