For other ships with the same name, see
USS Polly .
Politkofsky Imperial Russian Navy sidewheel gunboat that patrolled the Alaskan Panhandle in the 1860s.
Politkofsky was built of yellow cedar in Russian America at New Archangel (now Sitka , Alaska ), in the 1850s and was 120 feet (37 m) in length and of 152 tons displacement . She had early copper boilers and a crosshead steam engine taken from the Imperial Russian Navy ship Imperator Nikolai I . When Tsar Alexander II of Russia sold Russian Alaska to the United States in 1867, Politkofsky was included in the deal. The gunboat was then sold into civilian service as a tugboat .
As the tug Polly , the ship worked along the northwest coast of North America . During the Klondike Gold Rush of the late 1890s, she operated on the Yukon River , where she sank in 1906.
Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in 1906
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