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No vessel that sailed the Arctic seas has raised so much 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 during 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 incredible tale of the hardy ship and her sometimes irascible captain, Sydney Cornwell, bringing to life the larger story of the community of northern traders, hunters and sailors of which __Baychimo__ was 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 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 legend

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Author

Anthony Dalton; Gibson Library Connections, Inc

Publisher

Heritage House Publishing Company Ltd.

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781894974141

Category

history

Subjects

Science, Anthropology, Fiction

Rating

3.45 / 5 (11 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14