Baychimo: Arctic Ghost Ship

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No vessel that sailed the Arctic seas has raised such a lot speculation or triggered imaginations as has the legendary Hudson’s Bay Company ship Baychimo.

In the 1920s, Baychimo set up trading posts in eastern Canada, sailed on fur-trading expeditions to Siberia all the way through the turbulent years of the Russian civil war and made dangerous annual voyages around Alaska to Canada’s western Arctic coast, shouldering her way through ice floes to resupply the HBC’s remote trading posts. Anthony Dalton digs deep to unveil the improbable tale of the hardy ship and her occasionally irascible captain, Sydney Cornwell, bringing to life the larger story of the community of northern traders, hunters and sailors of which Baychimo was once a part.

This ship’s story had a remarkable twist. Caught in 1931 in an ice floe that refused to let go, her crew expected her to sink at any moment, and abandoned ship. But Baychimo was once as stubborn as the ice, and she floated away unharmed to begin what would end up to be the longest phase of her seemingly charmed career: for the following four decades she would seem at the horizon at unexpected times and places, all the time defiantly upright and afloat, becoming the legendary ghost ship of the Arctic.

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