| In 1912 this vessel was fitted with a shoe on the keel plate so this vesselcould be driven hard into the ice. This vessel had no bilge keels, another concession to ice travel so this vesselwallowed in heavy seas. An ice belt around the load water line protected her from floating ice. this vessel was one of a class of four vessels. The three others were sold to the Russian Government for Arctic service. In World War One this vessel sank a submarine by gunfire on the surface in the ice. At the end of the war this vesselwent on the Murmansk-Archangel run supplying the war effort to subvert the Bolshevik Revolution. The Nascopie often carried as many as six 40' boats for sale to the Eskimos and up to 30 canoes and whaleboats for sale as well. Carrying goods and supplies to the Arctic they were usually loaded at Montreal. The landing was more complicated as two whale boats would be lashed together and covered with planks to make a landing barge, carrying 15 tons of cargo. this whole assemblage would then be towed ashore by the steam pinnace. This vessel sailed to the eastern end of Bellot Strait in 1937. The Aklavik sailed through and met them there where they exchanged furs and trading goods. In 1947 this vesselstruck a reef off Beacon Island at the entrance to Dorset Harbour and sank. |
