From Baird Maritime:
The Hudson's Bay Company ship 'Baychimo' was the focus of yet another of the sea's great mystery stories, rather like the 'Mary Celeste' and the HMS 'Resolute'. Abandoned ships that have periodically re-appeared.
In the case of the 'Baychimo', sightings of her were reported for 40 years after her abandonment and disappearance in 1931.
A small cargo passenger steamer of 1,300 tons and with a service speed of 8.5 knots, 'Baychimo' was a fairly typical early twentieth century merchant ship. She worked the HBC's outposts in Arctic Canada for 11 years until she was trapped in ice and abandoned.
Sliding on top of the ice floe that trapped her, 'Baychino' then drifted around the Arctic to be seen on a number of occasions until 1969. Her movement apparently was courtesy of the phenomenon of the Beaufort Gyre.
A strange but fascinating story.
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