The Baychimo was a cargo steamer built in 1914 , which gained fame from 1931 as a ghost ship trapped in pack ice and has been considered lost since 1969.
history
The 1,322 GRT measured and 70.1 m long freight steamer was built in 1914 by the Swedish shipyard "Lindholmens Mekaniska Verkstad A / B" in Gothenburg . Originally owned by Baltische Reederei GmbH in Hamburg as Ångermanelfven , the ship came to Great Britain in 1921 as a war reparation . On behalf of the Canadian Hudson's Bay Company , it was used to supply remote settlements in the Canadian Northwest Territories and Alaska . It was trapped in the pack ice in October 1931 , whereupon the crew gave up the ship and escaped to Barrow (Alaska) . In the years and decades that followed, the drifting ship, which had presumably been temporarily released from the pack ice, was sighted again and again; last (allegedly) in 1969. However, a search operation in 2006 did not produce any more results.
literature
David Gunston: The ghost ship of the Arctic . In: The UNESCO Courier: a window open on the world . XLIV, August 1991, pp. 63-65. Retrieved March 11, 2015.
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