desc=During a voyage from Seattle, Washington, to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky on the Kamchatka Peninsula in Siberia carrying 436 tons of general trading cargo, the 552-ton motor ship was abandoned in the North Pacific Ocean 400 nautical miles south of the Territory of Alaska′s Shumagin Islands at a position determined by dead reckoning as coord after an engine room fire went out of control.