Baychimo - ghost ship Bashny.Net

«Baychimo» steel was 1322 ton cargo ship, which was built in 1914 in Sweden, he belonged to the Hudson's Bay Company. It was used to trade pelts with Inuit settlements along the coast of Victoria Island in the Northwest Territories of Canada. He became known as a ghost ship off the Alaskan coast.

History «Baychimo» begins in 1914, when it was built, it was given the name «Angermanelfven». The ship had a length of 230 feet (70.15m), is powered by a steam engine, and had a speed of 10 knots. «Angermanelfven» used on the trade routes between Hamburg and Sweden before the First World War.





After World War I, he was transferred to the UK as part of the reparations Germany was acquired by the Hudson's Bay in 1921. The ship was renamed «Baychimo», he was based in Scotland, made nine successful flight along the northern coast of Canada, visiting shopping centers and collecting furs.
October 1, 1931 at the end of the trading navigation and downloading fur «Baychimo» was captured by the pack ice. The crew left the ship quickly, people have been on the ice 1, 5 miles to the town of Barrow, where they received shelter for two days, and then the ship free of ice, and the team returned.
The ship got stuck again on October 8 more thoroughly this time. October 15, Hudson's Bay Company sent a plane to pick up the 22 crew members. 15 people were intending to wait until the end of winter, if necessary, at some distance, they built a wooden shelter.
November 24 broke a powerful snowstorm, and after it subsided, and there was not a trace of «Baychimo»; Captain came to the conclusion that the ship was broken and sunk in a storm. A few days later, however, the hunter - Inuit informed them that he saw «Baychimo» about 45 miles from his parking space. 15 people set off to the ship, and, having decided that it is unlikely that the ship survived the winter, took the most valuable furs from the hold and transported them through the air.
«Baychimo» cast.
«Baychimo», however, did not sink, and over the next few decades there have been numerous appearances vessel. People climbed on board several times, but each time they did not have any equipment for the salvage of the vessel or its re leads away the bad weather. Last certificate «Baychimo» was quite a group of Inuit in 1969, 38 years after it was abandoned. The ship quickly got stuck in the pack ice in the Beaufort Sea between Point Barrow and Icy Cape in the Chukchi Sea off the northwest coast of Alaska.

A few days after the «Baychimo» disappeared on November 24, the ship was found 45 miles south of the spot where he lost it again stuck in the ice.
Several months later, the ship was again seen, but at a distance of about 300 miles to the east.
In March of the following year he saw the boat floating peacefully near the shore of a man riding on a dog sled.
A few months later, his company saw prospectors. We spent one night on board.
In March 1933, the ship has found a group of Eskimos, who spent 10 days on board, waiting out the storm.
In August 1933, the Hudson Bay Company heard that the ship was still afloat, but too far out to sea to save him. There were witnesses who took refuge on board for a night or two from the weather.
In July 1934, at his side visited the schooner group of researchers inside, it seems they have not got (probably not needed)
In September 1935, he was spotted off the coast of Alaska.
In November 1939, Captain Hugh Polson swam to him on his schooner to save, but to prevent creeping ice floe, and he gave up trying to get inside the ship.
After 1939 the ship seen floating alone and without crew, many times, but he always disappeared.
In March 1962, the ship seen floating along the Beaufort Sea group of Eskimos.
He was found frozen in the ice in 1969, 38 years after he was abandoned, and it was the latest evidence of ghostly «Baychimo».

It is said that in 2006, such as the planned start of the expedition to search for the ship. Here I do not know.
Please note, the ship often appeared just when it was needed. That the Eskimos from the weather to hide, then the researchers show off a few times he even used as a temporary warehouse, apparently hoping then it swim away, but started the storm, people waited it somewhere outside the vehicle (usually in the nearest Inuit village) and the morning Floating traveler has not been.

It turns out, he is like that famous mythical house, which opens its doors it is not clear where it is not clear when, but you are sure to find inside, and a couple of cups of warm mulled wine. Maybe even a warm blanket and a good doctor, who also wandered into an open door by accident.

Where he wants to - take the passengers, and where want - are planted. Maybe it is much more visible than the people where they are actually needed.