After the Karluk was frozen in the ice, she sank on January
11, 1914. The crew had transfered provisions to make-shift structures on
the ice. The supplies were put under the control of William McKinlay, a
Scottish school teacher who was the expedition’s magnetician and meteorologist.
The stores could only be entered by McKinlay or Captain Bartlet. (Seffansson
had left the ship to explore. he never returned to the ship, but did return
to civilization).
Provisions as recorded by McKinlay January 11, 1914:
70 suits underwear
200 pairs Jaeger socks
6 fleece suits
100 fawn skins
20 deer skins
36 woolen shirts
3 rolls Burberry gaberdine
30 Jaeger caps
2 rolls Jaeger blanketing
2 sacks skin boots (100 pairs)
100 Jaeger mitts
6 Jaeger sweaters
4 Burberry hunting suits
12 sealskins
6 heavy winter skins
2 large sacks deer legs
20 mattresses
50 Jaeger blankets
4,056 pounds Underwood Pemican
5,222 pounds Hudson’s Bay Pemican
3 drums coal oil
15 cases coal oil
candles
matches
2 boxes tea
2 boxes butter
200 tins milk
250 pounds sugar
1 box cocoa
2 boxes chocolate
placed on the ice earlier:
250 sacks of coal
33 cases gasoline
1 case codfish
3 large cases codsteaks
5 drums alcohol
14 cases Pilot bread
5 barrels beef
2,000 feet timber
1 extra suit sails
9 sledges
3 coal stoves
90 feet stove piping
2 canoes
McKinlay also referenced coal, clothing, equipment milk pemmican,
tea, coffee, butter, sugar, seal meat, beef, pork, bacon, egg powder, soup
powder, guns, rifles and ammunition. But, he doesn’t give the quantities,
only that they had been removed from the ship earlier.