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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.