Sunken Klondike Gold

When the 240-foot SS Islander hit an iceberg in Alaska's inside waters just 12 miles from Juneau in 1901, Capt. H.R. Foote decided to make a desperate run for nearby Douglas Island. But it was too late. Water was pouring into a huge gash in the port bow. The stern was rising. The pride of the Canadian Pacific fleet quickly sank. In 1933, Seattle and Portland house-mover Frank Curtis proposed a bold salvage plan. Accompanied by 85 extraordinary photographs and illustrations, this is an insider's story of a two-year struggle to raise the Islander, a record-breaking salvage that focused on a single prize – an elusive fortune in gold.