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Title:RMS Nascopie : Ship of the North
Author:Doug Gray
ISBN:0919614701 : 9780919614703
Illustrations:b/w photos
Format:Paperback
Size:150x230mm
Pages:112
Weight: .203 Kg.
Published:Dundurn Press - January 1997
List Price: 9.99 Pounds Sterling
Availability:In Print
Subjects:Ships & shipping: general interest


This is the untold story of a ship with a great heart, the Royal Mail Ship 'Nascopie', and the remarkable life she had before coming to grief on an unmarked reef in Hudson's Strait half a century ago.

Introduction; Nascopie Enters Service; The Company Circa 1910; Navigating in the North; Technical Interlude: Designing Nascopie; Concept of Operations; Mrs Watt Goes Cruising; Nascopie Sails to Russia; Russia Again; Smellie Takes Command; The Twenties; The Thirties; Again to War; Farewell Nascopie; After Nascopie.