![Offbeat Oregon History podcast show](https://d3dthqtvwic6y7.cloudfront.net/podcast-covers/000/039/188/small/offbeat-oregon-history-audio-edition.jpg)
Summary: Designed for calm inland waterways, the sidewheel steamboat Alaskan was no match for the massive late-spring gale that pounced on it off Cape Blanco one fateful night in 1889. (Cape Blanco, Curry County; 1889) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1311c-riverboat-alaskan-caught-in-offshore-hurricane.html)