Unified Command: Princess Kathleen
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Date: March 5, 2010
Contact:  JIC: (907) 463-2430
Photo Release

Unified Command hosts open house

JUNEAU, Alaska - Dorthy and Terry Cary, Juneau residents, look at a picture of the Princess Kathleen during an open house hosted by the U.S. Coast Guard and Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation at the Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center March 4, 2010. The 369-foot Princess Kathleen, a Canadian Pacific Railroad vessel built in 1925, grounded then later sank near Lena Point in 1952 carrying an estimated 155,000 gallons of fuel. An effort is underway to recover oil from the Princess Kathleen. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Jon-Paul Rios)

JUNEAU, Alaska - Dorthy and Terry Cary, Juneau residents, look at a picture of the Princess Kathleen during an open house hosted by the U.S. Coast Guard and Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation at the Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center March 4, 2010. 

The 369-foot Princess Kathleen, a Canadian Pacific Railroad vessel built in 1925, grounded then later sank near Lena Point in 1952 carrying an estimated 155,000 gallons of fuel.

An effort is underway to recover oil from the Princess Kathleen.

U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Jon-Paul Rios

JUNEAU, Alaska - Members of the Juneau community address questions with Capt. Melissa Bert, Commander of U.S. Coast Guard Sector Juneau, during an open house held at the Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center March 4, 2010. The open house allowed the community to meet the members of the Unified Command who are leading an effort to recover oil from the Princess Kathleen that sank in 1952. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Jon-Paul Rios)

JUNEAU, Alaska - Members of the Juneau community address questions with Capt. Melissa Bert, Commander of U.S. Coast Guard Sector Juneau and Lt. Latarsha McQueen (left), during an open house held at the Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center March 4, 2010.

The open house allowed the community to meet the members of the Unified Command who are leading an effort to recover oil from the Princess Kathleen that sank in 1952.

U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Jon-Paul Rios

For more information please visit: the Princess Kathleen Unified Command website at http://www.dec.state.ak.us/spar/princesskathleen 

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