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Vancouver; Pierway/Vancouver Maritime Museum; 2000 facsimile of 1945 edition. hardcover in very good condition. c100pp, b/w maps and photos, describes the voyages of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police schooner St. Roch
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Reports and Other Papers Relating to the Two Voyages of the RCMP Police Schooner St. Roch Hardcover - 2000
by Royal Canadian Mounted Police Staff
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- Title Reports and Other Papers Relating to the Two Voyages of the RCMP Police Schooner St. Roch
- Author Royal Canadian Mounted Police Staff
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition Special Edition
- Publisher Pierway Inc., Vancouver
- Date 2000
- ISBN 9781894654005
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Reports and other Papers Relating to the Two Voyages of the R.C.M. Police Schooner St. Roch
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Reports and Other Papers Relating to the Two Voyages of the R.C.M. Police Schooner "St. Roch" Through the North West Passage
by Larsen, Staff Sergeant H.A.
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Vancouver: Pierway Inc. / Vancouver Maritime Museum, 2000. First edition thus. A hardcover facsimile edition of the 1945 Royal Canadian Mounted Police reports written by the St. Roch's captain, H.A. Larsen. The St. Roch sailed from Vancouver, B.C. to Sydney, Nova Scotia, 1940-42, and from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia to Vancouver, B.C., 1944. It was the first vessel to traverse the Northwest Passage both ways, and the first to accomplish it in a single season. "These papers include a short history of the St. Roch, navigation reports providing information on ice conditions and navigation difficulties, patrol reports of sledge journeys, a realistic portrayal of the work and working conditions of the police patrols; and tables of air and sea temperatures taken three-times daily during the second voyage, July 29 - September 20, 1944" - (Arctic Bibliography, 14926). Bound in full dark gray cloth with silver lettering, with a new Introduction by James P. Delgado of the Vancouver Maritime…
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Reports and Other Papers Relating to the Two Voyages of the RCMP Police Schooner St. Roch
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Vancouver, BC, Canada: Pierway, Incorporated, 2000. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Association Signature. Facsimile. Fine copy signed by Ken Burton who captained the St Roch in 2000 re-enactment of historic voyage. Also signed by 2 other crew members..
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Royal Canadian Mounted Police 1945. Reports and Other Papers Relating to the Two Voyages of the R.C.M.Police Schooner "St. Roch" Through the North West Passage: From (1) Vancouver, B.C., To Sydney, N.S., (1940-42) (2) Dartmouth, N.S., To Vancouver, B.C., (1944)
by Larsen, Staff/Sergeant H. A.
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Vancouver: Pierway Inc., Vancouver, Canada with the Vancouver Maritime Museum, 2000. Hardcover. as new. limited facsimile Reprint of 1945 Edition. xvi,97,[5]pp. Octavo in original blue cloth illustrations in text from photos and maps and folding map (frontispiece), Facsimile reprint issued to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the completion of the second voyage repeated in 2002 on the Saint Roch II and signed by all the crew. This copy was previously owned by C.G. Bainbridge (address label on front pastedown. as new Crew member's who signed this copy were: B.Currie, K. Gates, J. Stringer, G. Pinnegan, M.Schuseu and K. Burton Captain of St. Roch II. 2000
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Royal Canadian Mounted Police 1945: Reports and other papers relating to the two voyages of the R.C.M. Police Schooner "St. Roch"
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Royal Canadian Mounted Police 1945 under the command of Staff-Sergeant H A Larsen. Reprinted by the King's Printer, Dept. of Public Printing and Stationery, Ottawa, Ontario. 2000. In the extended Preface, James P. Delgado, Executive Director, Vancouver Maritime Museum relates what the St. Roch accomplished post-war.
"St. Roch" made a return voyage to the Arctic in 1946, but the advent of aircraft and Cold War tensions were changing the north. There was no longer a place for the ship, and after 1948, she was laid up. In 1950, the RCMP took St. Roch out of mothballs and sent her back to Halifax, this time by way of the Panama Canal. The plan was to use the ship in the eastern Arctic. The 1950 voyage gave St. Roch a new laurel--the first ship to circumnavigate North America in her career. But the plan to employ St. Roch in Halifax never materialized.
In 1952, a drive to save the ship and return it to Vancouver succeeded in gaining the support of the City of Vancouver and the RCMP. With Larsen at the… Read More
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