The steel-hulled square-rigger sailing ship, the Star of Russia, bought by the Alaska Packers Association on November 1st, 1901, would run aground less than four years later. The ship ran aground on Chirikof Island on July 29th, 1905. There were no lives lost and it was soon refloated and repaired at a cost of $56,000 and returned to service. Bought by APA to haul cannery supplies and salmon pack, the Star of Russia was the first of the star line purchased by APA. That life came to an end in 1953 when it sank just northwest of Port Vila Harbor in Vanuatu.