ASIN: B01KVUU1YS
Publisher: Charles River Editors (August 22, 2016)
Pages: 38
*Includes pictures*Includes accounts of the ship's journeys and its life as a ghost ship*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading*Includes a table of contentsBy the early decades of the 20th century, the fur trade had tapered off some from its heyday in the 19th century, but it still proved profitable enough for hunters to live for months at a time in remote regions of Alaska. Their only contact with the outside world consisted of the company ships that came to buy their furs and bring them supplies. One of these vessels was the steamer Baychimo, a Hudson’s Bay Company ship that plied the treacherous waters off Alaska, Arctic Canada, and Siberia for many years, supplying remote outposts of Inuit and Anglo trappers and bringing back their catch of furs. Her sailors were experts at handling Arctic waters, but one year the weather proved too much for them. In ...
