Probably one of the most interesting Ghost Ship Stories since the Baychimo has appeared numerous time from the date of its disappearance meaning that it is still standing. Well, at least since the last time it wa reported "alive".
The ship was built in 1917 in Sweden and was used for trading provisions with pelts. Baychimo was making a lot of trips to Alaska and Columbia.
On October 1, 1931 on a trip to Vancouver it got trapped in pack ice. Captain John Cornwell along with thirty-six men from the crew were stuck in freezing temperatures and the threats of blizzards. The ship was close to the village of Barrow. Cornwell ordered his men to shelter there because he knew this could take a lot of time. They remained there for two days, because suddenly Baychimo was getting free from the ice. They rushed up and got back into the ship. And while for three hours everything seemed to be over, the ice started surrounding the ship again. Once more the ship stuck. The company that owned Baychimo sent two aircrafts to rescue the crew. Fourteen men along with the captain stayed behind until the can take back the control of the ship. They knew this could last more than a year. Unfortunately on the night of November 24th a blizzard trapped the men inside the shelter they had temporarily built on the shore. When they finally got out the Baychimo was vanished. The crew believed that the ship must have broken up and sunk in the storm.
Now the funny thing on this story is that Baychimo was never actually sank and there are many reports in the next decades for the ship being abandoned in the ocean.
1931 - The ship was seen 45mi south of where it was lost some days later.
1932 - Spotted again 300mi to the East
March 1933 - Found by a group of Eskimos who actually boarded on the ship. A huge storm kept them trapped in the ship for ten days before they abandon it too.
August 1933 - The Hudson's Bay Company, who owned the ship, was able to track it but it was so far from the coast that a salvation would be to expensive
July 1934 - A Group of Explorers finds it and get boarded
September 1935 - It was seen off the Alaskan coast
1939 - Captain Hugh Polson finds it and gets on board.He tryied to salvage the ship but once again ice intervenes. Polson abandons the ship
In the next years many more Eskimos have reported seeing Baychimo but none has achieved to "rescue" it or it just costs too much. The last known sights of it, is in 1962 which was seen by a group of Inuit in Beaufort Sea and in 1969 (38 years after its disappearance) where it was found frozen in an ice pack. The story was the same: by the time someone was trying to rescue it the ship was gone.
In 2006, the Alaskan government began work on a project to solve the mystery of "the Ghost Ship of the Arctic" and locate the Baychimo, whether still afloat or on the ocean floor. As of yet, she has not been found.
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sources: wikipedia.org/, nunatsiaqonline.ca , clubedocanhao.com.br , accessmylibrary.com/
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