''General Pershing'' was a wooden auxiliary vessel, a five masted bald-headed

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. Built in 1918, Olympia Washington, General Pershing was powered with two 350 hp Sumner surface ignition engines.

Operational history

''General Pershing'' was originally built for use in the Atlantic trade by Norwegian interests and in 1921 was sold to the P.E. Harris Company of Seattle Washington for transporting salmon from Alaska canneries to the Atlantic and Gulf Coast markets via the

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. On July 11, 1921, ''General Pershing'' struck the Endymion Rock,

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and was wrecked. Her crew were rescued.

References

Commercial fishing in Alaska

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