Real "Ghost" Ships,and Alaska history

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The S.S. Baychimo was a pre WWI, Scandanavian-built  german freighter that passed to britain after the armistice. Given to the Hudson bay company, it served the Alaskan and Canadian Arctic as a freighter, mainly for furs and groceries, until it became ice bound in the early 30s, and abandoned as unsalvagable. But that was only the begining of it's career, in the literal definition of career, it stayed afloat, for weeks, then months, then years, then decades...right through WWII...it was last officially spotted afloat in the 1960s and though presumed sunk now, still has not been found, the State of Alaska has a reseaech project running to locate it, many ghost stories have grown upon it's legend like rusticles...

there is a paper model. This smells like first place ribbon fodder for 2022 State Fair.

 https://www.papershipwright.co.uk/product/ss-baychimo/

also fascinating; https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/polar-record/article/rediscovering-lost-relationships-canadian-arctic-ethnographic-materials-recovered-f...

 

https://www.adn.com/science/article/how-artifacts-alaskas-ghost-ship-mysteriously-wound-fairbanks-museum/2016/03/26/