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SS Baychimo Wikipedia. SS Baychimo was a steel hulled 1,3. Sweden and owned by the Hudsons Bay Company, used to trade provisions for pelts in Inuit settlements along the Victoria Island coast of the Northwest Territories of Canada. She became a notable ghost ship along the Alaska coast, being abandoned in 1. Early historyeditBaychimo was launched in 1. Yard No 4. 20 by the Lindholmens shipyard Lindholmens Mekaniska Verkstad AB in Gothenburg, Sweden, for the Baltische Reederei Gmb. H of Hamburg. She was 2. Alaska Airlines is an American airline headquartered in the Seattle metropolitan area of the state of Washington. The company was founded in 1932 as McGee Airways. Goa 5.1 Mp3. Official site for the worlds foremost sled race, the Iditarod Great Sled Race, with regular updates during the race, musher biographies, and educational links. Swedish river ngerman was used on trading routes between Hamburg and Sweden until the First World War began in August 1. After World War I, she was transferred to the United Kingdom as part of Germanys reparations for shipping losses and was acquired by the Hudsons Bay Company in 1. Renamed Baychimo and based in Ardrossan, Scotland, she completed nine successful voyages along the north coast of Canada, visiting trading posts and collecting pelts. On 2. 1 July 1. 92. Baychimo ran aground off Pole Island in Camden Bay on the north coast of the Territory of Alaska. Buying-Alaska/Buying-Alaska.jpg' alt='Alaska Ultimate X' title='Alaska Ultimate X' />She was refloated the next day. AbandonmenteditOn 1 October 1. Alpha Innotech Red Manual. Baychimo became trapped in pack ice. The crew briefly abandoned the ship, travelling over a half mile of ice to the town of Barrow to take shelter for two days, but the ship had broken free of the ice by the time the crew returned. The ship became mired again on October 8, more thoroughly this time, and on 1. October the Hudsons Bay Company sent aircraft to retrieve 2. Intending to wait out the winter if necessary, they constructed a wooden shelter some distance away. Windows Xp Pro Sp3 Ultra Lite Ita Yahoo. On 2. 4 November a powerful blizzard struck, and after it abated there was no sign of Baychimo. Her captain decided she must have broken up during the storm and been sunk. A few days later, however, an Inuit seal hunter told him that he had seen Baychimo about 4. The crewmen tracked the ship down, but deciding she was unlikely to survive the winter, they removed the most valuable furs from the hold2 to transport by air. Alaska Ultimate X' title='Alaska Ultimate X' />Baychimo was abandoned. Ghost shipeditSurprisingly, Baychimo did not sink, and over the next few decades she was sighted numerous times. People managed to board her several times, but each time they were either unequipped to salvage her or were driven away by bad weather. The last recorded sighting was by a group of Inuit in 1. She was stuck fast in the pack ice of the Beaufort Sea between Point Barrow and Icy Cape, in the Chukchi Sea off the northwestern Alaskan coast. Baychimos ultimate fate is unknown. SightingseditA few days after Baychimo had disappeared on 2. November 1. 93. 1, the ship was found 4. After several months, she was spotted again but about 3. In March of the following year, she was seen floating peacefully near the shore by Leslie Melvin, a man travelling to Nome with his dog sled team. A few months after that, she was seen by a company of prospectors. In August 1. 93. 2, she was boarded by a 2. Alaskan trading party off Wainwright, Alaska. March 1. Eskimos who boarded her and were trapped aboard for 1. August 1. 93. 3, the Hudsons Bay Company heard she was still afloat, but was too far a sea to salvage. July 1. September 1. Alaskas northwest coast. November 1. Captain Hugh Polson, wishing to salvage her, but the creeping ice floes intervened and the captain had to abandon her. This is the last recorded boarding of Baychimo. After 1. March 1. Beaufort Sea coast by a group of Inuit. She was found frozen in an ice pack in 1. This is the last recorded sighting of Baychimo. In 2. 00. 6, the Alaskan government began work on a project to solve the mystery of the Ghost Ship of the Arctic and locate Baychimo, whether still afloat or on the ocean floor. She has not yet been found. In educationeditAlaskas Phantom Ship, an article about the vessel, was printed in the textbook Galaxies Houghton Mifflin Boston, 1. ReferenceseditNotes. Bibliography. Further readingeditDalton, Anthony, Baychimo Arctic Ghost Ship, Heritage House, 2. ISBN 1 8. 94. 97. XGillingham, Donald W., Umiak, Museum Press, 1. Swancer, Brent. The Mysterious Ghost Ship of the Arctic. Mysterious Universe. Retrieved 1. 1 March 2. External linksedit.