The ghost ship that drifted the Arctic for 38 years
In 1931, the Hudson’s Bay Company abandoned the SS Baychimo after it became trapped in Arctic ice, according to Wikipedia. The crew assumed it would sink. It didn’t. For the next 38 years, the steel-hulled cargo steamer kept appearing — unmanned, drifting through the frozen waters off Alaska like something from a sailor’s nightmare.
The Baychimo …
