Baychimo: Arctic Ghost Ship - Softcover

Anthony Dalton

Softcover

ISBN 10: 189497414X ISBN 13: 9781894974141

Publisher: Heritage House Publishing, 2006

Synopsis

Baychimo is the legendary Hudson's Bay Company ship that survived for years in the Arctic after being abandoned by her crew in 1931.In the 1920s, the crew of Baychimo set up trading posts in eastern Canada, sailed on fur-trading expeditions to Siberia during the turbulent years of the Russian Civil War, and eventually made the dangerous annual voyage around Alaska to Canada's western Arctic coast, shouldering her way through the ice floes to resupply the HBC's remote trading posts. But this ship's story had a remarkable twist. When Baychimo was 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 she was as stubborn as the ice, and she floated away unharmed to begin what would prove to be the longest phase of her seemingly charmed career: for the next four decades she would appear on the horizon at unexpected times and places, always defiantly upright and afloat, becoming the legendary ghost ship of the Arctic.

About this title

From the Author:

In 2004 I was researching material for a book about the fur trade era in the Hudson's Bay Company archives in Winnipeg when I found a reference to BAYCHIMO, known as the ghost ship of the Arctic. A few more references set me on a path to write the story of the ship from it's construction in Sweden until it's occasional sightings adrift in the Arctic decades later.

About the Author:

Anthony Dalton is the author of numerous books on maritime history including The Graveyard of the Pacific, The Fur-Trade Fleet, Alone against the Arctic, and Sir John Franklin. He is a fellow of both the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Canadian Geographical Society and is past-president of the Canadian Authors Association. He lives in the Gulf Islands of British Columbia.

About this edition

• Publisher: Heritage House Publishing
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 189497414X
• ISBN 13: 9781894974141
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256