The US schooner Gertrude, travelling from Nome, Territory of Alaska, to Siberia with a crew of five and a cargo of 15 tons of general merchandise, collides with ice and is trapped in it for seven hours approximately 12 nautical miles southwest of "East Cape" (probably Cape Dezhnev on the coast of Siberia but possibly Apavawook Cape) on the coast of Saint Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea.