Northwest History. Alaska. Science. United States.

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1936
• Subjects: Alaska; Ships; Ship building; Northwest; Pacific > History > 20th Century; Arctic; Pacific; Barrow; eskimo*
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/101653

Ghost Schooner In Ice Puzzles GHOST SCHOONER IN ICE PUZZLES May Be Old Whaler Come Back From Dim Past. £ By Associate Press. 'BARROW, Alaska,; March 3 — Strange things have occurred in the arctic ice pack, old-time residents commented today in suggesting a "flying Dutchman" ship sighted far offshore in the ice might be a whaler lost half a century ago. "It's 50 years since seven great whaling ships floated out into the unknown, fast in the ice, with a hundred or more men aboard," Charles D. Brower, old-time whaler, said today. "In 1898, also, a number of whalers were crushed and abandoned in the ice." Page Mr. Ripley. "It is hardly possible that one of those ice-resisting oak schooners could survive until now, but strange things have happened on the ice A week ago an unidentified ship, a two-masted schooner, was sighted far off shore. At first it was believed be the Baychimo, marooned and abandoned in the ice four winters ago southwest of here. But Eskimos who tried to reach it were certain it was another ship. The Eskimo who ran to Barrow with the first word of the Rogers-Post tragedy last summer, Claire Oakpeha, told Dr. Henry W. Greist, Presbyterian medical missionary, it was not the Baychimo. Oakpeha and Bill Solomon, another Eskimo, hunting far off shore, were forced back after trying to reach the derelict. Ship Has No Funnel. "Ship two masts, no funnel," he said. The Baychimo had a funnel, and had been sighted occasionally until two years ago as it was carried back and forth for miles with the different seasons in the ice. ! No further attempts have been imade to visit the ship, because of the continued cold and strong winds and ja wide lead of open water two miles j pff shire. Both Brower and Dr. Greist also! I expressed the belief the ship might! have been one carried eastward in the | ice from the Siberian coast. I ice drift is from west to until reversed by the winds. Brower, so-called "king of the tic," has been at Barrow 52 years.